We talk to the author of a thorough and enthralling history of Toussaint Louverture, the one-time enslaved man who led the successful slave revolt in Haiti.

A Place at the Table is a middle-grade book that tracks Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a white Jewish girl with an English mother. The girls develop a friendship that is sometimes uneasy but in the end, warm and loving.

This episode explores a true-crime anthology and a wonderful contemporary novel.

Cary Barbor talks with the authors of Becoming Duchess Goldblatt and The Son of Good Fortune.