David Baldacci
The Whole Truth

With the world relatively stable, Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, is losing money fast. And if a war won't start naturally, he is more than willing to help move things along. Katie James, a journalist, will do anything to get back to the top of her profession. But can she keep her demons at bay? Shaw travels the world for a secret multinational intelligence agency. He dreams of retirement and marriage, but will his employers ever let him go? This global thriller delivers all the twists and turns, emotional drama, unforgettable characters, and pacing that Baldacci fans expect.

Katie Flynn
Sunshine & Shadows

Daisy Kildare lives with her family in a cottage perched on the Connemara coast. The Kildares are poor but happy. But when their croft is wrested from them, Daisy's Aunt Jane, who is housekeeper to Dr and Mrs Venables, offers to take Daisy back to Liverpool so that the child can be a companion to her employers' orphaned niece, Cynthia. Daisy begins to work hard in school, and though she and Cynthia don't get along, she meets Jake, the chauffeur's son, and life in Liverpool becomes easier to bear. When Jake goes to university, Daisy means to follow suit, but war intervenes and instead, she starts work at a munitions factory, and falls in love for the very first time....

After twenty years of comfortable marriage, Sarah Lewis wants an adventure - alone. She heads for France, leaving her husband with an empty house and a freezer full of meals-for-one. But is life really better on the other side of the fence? With a gorgeous French man demanding her company, Sarah certainly seems to think so. But then a catastrophe threatens to de-rail much more than Sarah's little adventure. Pretty soon, she begins to wonder whether gap years are for grown-ups after all....