By Barbara VanDenburgh

Ivy Lin was a thief and a liar with a crush on the golden son of a rich, important family. Her parents send her China, but she returns years later, determined to get everything she ever wanted – until a ghost from her past resurfaces.

A collection of short fiction from the best-selling author of “The History of Love” exploring what it means to be part of a couple, and the daily lived experiences of men and women.

The essayist collects his best stories spanning his career, from previously published volumes and magazine features, for a comprehensive retrospective.

The author of “Diamond” makes his fiction debut with a page-turner about a massive pink gem, worth millions and harboring secrets, that ends up around the neck of Honey Li, the wife of billionaire and U.S. presidential contender Harry Nash.

A collection of 20 masterful short stories from a diverse array of authors, including T.C. Boyle, Meng Jin, Elizabeth McCracken and Alejandro Puyana.

The Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup champion is also an activist icon and tireless fighter for LGBTQ rights. She shares her story, and in so doing urges readers to stand up for justice and equality.

The award-winning Danielle Evans releases a hotly anticipated new story collection, exploring the subjects of race, American history and grief with her signature insight.

In 1969, 23-year-old Harvard graduate student Jane Britton was found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment in a murder that long went unsolved. This true-crime opus keeps the victim centered, reflecting on a young life lost.

Lethem turns postapocalyptic, imagining a world in which television, computers, airplanes and all the modern conveniences we take for granted are wiped out by a major disaster called the Arrest.

Ricks seeks to answer the questions: “What kind of nation do we have now? Is this what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders?”