PARIS, MY SWEET
by Amy Thomas

Forever a girl obsessed with all things French, sweet freak Amy Thomas landed a gig as rich as the purest dark chocolate: leave Manhattan for Paris to write ad copy for Louis Vuitton. Working on the Champs-Élysées, strolling the charming streets, and exploring the best patisseries and boulangeries, Amy marveled at the magnificence of the City of Light. But does falling in love with one city mean turning your back on another? As much as Amy adored Paris, there was part of her that felt like a humble chocolate chip cookie in a sea of pristine macarons.

BEFORE THE POISON
by Peter Robinson

After twenty-five years abroad, and still reeling from the death of his beloved wife, Chris Lowndes returns to the Yorkshire dales of his youth. He buys Kilnsgate House, and learns that the mansion was the scene of a murder more than fifty years before. The former owner, a doctor, was supposedly poisoned by his wife, Grace. Grace was hanged for the crime. Chris searches through archives for information about the case. The more he discovers, the more convinced he becomes that Grace may have been innocent. He sets out to discover what really happened over half a century ago.

MORE THAN WORDS CAN SAY
by Robert Barclay

Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmother's lakeside cottage deep in the Adirondacks. When Chelsea finds her grandmother's WWII diaries, she's stunned to discover that they hold secrets she never suspected. Even more surprising is the compelling presence of local doctor Brandon Yale, and Chelsea soon finds her "short stay" has stretched into the entire summer. She cannot put this cottage and her family's past behind her easily—and the more she learns about the woman her grandmother truly was, the more Chelsea's own life begins to change . . . and nothing will ever be the same again.

ACCIDENTS OF PROVIDENCE
by Stacia Brown

King Charles has been beheaded for treason. Amid civil war in 1649, Cromwell's army is running the country. The Levellers are calling for rights to the people. A new law targeting unwed mothers and lewd women presumes anyone who conceals the death of her illegitimate child is guilty of murder. Rachel Lockyer, unmarried glove maker, and Leveller William Walwyn are locked in a secret affair. When a child is found buried in the woods, Rachel is arrested. So comes an investigation, public trial, and unforgettable characters. Spinning within are Rachel and William, their love story, and the miracles that come to their lives.

THE WEIRD SISTERS
by Eleanor Brown

The Andreas sisters were raised on books. Their father, a renowned, eccentric professor of Shakespearean studies, named them after three of the Bard's most famous characters. Now the sisters have returned home to the small college town where they grew up - partly because their mother is ill, but mostly because their lives are falling apart and they don't know where to go next. The sisters never thought they would find the answers to their problems in each other, but over the course of one long summer, they find that everything they’ve been running from might offer more than they ever expected.

TRANSLATION OF THE BONES
by Francesca Kay

Mary-Margaret O'Reilly is willing to help out Father Diamond in the Sacred Heart church. She cleans for an Asian woman on her estate. Mary-Margaret is drawn to the statue of Jesus on the cross, and she decides to give Him a thorough cleansing. Moments later she’s unconscious with a gash in her head. A full-scale religious mania descends on the church, and everyone is affected by it. Mary-Margaret goes back obsessively to the statue. He has told her things, things she must act on, and urgently. The act she decides on is a shocking one. . .

SOLO
by Rana DasGupta

In the first movement of Solo we meet Ulrich, who has two passions: the violin and chemistry. Denied the first by his father, he leaves for the Berlin of Einstein and Fritz Haber to study the latter. His studies are cut short and he must return to Sofia to look after his parents. He never leaves Bulgaria again. Except in his daydreams—where we enter in the second half of the book. In a leap from past to present, from life lived to life imagined, Dasgupta follows Ulrich’s fantasy children, born of communism but making their way into a post-communist world of celebrity and violence.

THE LOST DAUGHTER
by Lucy Ferriss

Brooke O’Connor has a happy marriage and a deeply loved daughter. So her refusal to have a second child confounds her husband, Sean. When Brooke’s high school boyfriend Alex—now divorced and mourning the death of his young son—unexpectedly resurfaces, Sean begins to suspect an affair. For fifteen years Brooke has kept a shameful secret. Only Alex knows the truth that drove them apart. His reappearance now threatens the life she carefully constructed. With her marriage at stake, Brooke must confront what she has been unwilling to face for so long. But the truth is not what Brooke believes it to be.