Author: Barbara VanDenburgh, USA TODAY

This week’s new book releases include a collection of short stories from Karen Russell and a searing account of childhood abuse from Eve Ensler.

Surrogacy is pushed to its logical extreme in Joanne Ramos’ “The Farm,” where desperate women are impregnated with the world’s richest embryos.

Helen Hoang charms with new romance “The Bride Test,” Jill Biden releases her memoir “Where the Light Enters,” and more can’t-miss new releases.

Balli Kaur Jaswal is back with a new novel, Dustin Lance Black pens a moving memoir and a journalist writes a definitive account of 9/11.

This week’s most compelling new books include Melinda Gates’ “The Moment of Lift” and “Wunderland,” a work of historical fiction set during WWII.

It’s been 188 years since its publication, and Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” is once again a best-seller in France.

Sally Rooney’s second novel is a keen psychological study of the dynamics between power and sex in one intense relationship between social unequals.

How on earth does E.L. James follow up her best-selling “Fifty Shades of Grey” series? We finally find out in “The Mister.”

According to one review, Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” is destined to be a classic, while “The Hill to Die On” takes us inside the halls of Congress.

Susan Page’s “The Matriarch” chronicles the life of First Lady Barbara Bush; “American Moonshot” tells the thrilling story of the U.S. Space Race.