New York socialite Caroline Ferriday enjoys her volunteer work at the French consulate and the new relationship she has begun with a handsome French actor, but her life is thrown into turmoil when Germany invades Poland and the man she loves returns to France.  Polish teenager Kasia Kuzerick resents the Germans who have overtaken her hometown and begins to work for the underground when the unthinkable happens and she ends up in the German concentration camp Ravensbrück. German doctor Herta Oberhausen accepts a position at Ravensbrück concentration camp in order to practice actual medicine, as under the Nazi government women are not encouraged to work out of the home. However the atrocities that occur in the camp will change her forever.   Martha Hall Kelly’s debut novel, Lilac Girls weaves together the stories of these three women and keeps readers transfixed until the end.

Recently divorced alcoholic Rachel Watson fantasizes about the seemingly perfect couple she sees as she rides the train past her old neighborhood, where her ex-husband and his new family still live. Then one morning Rachel wakes up with a bad hangover and no memory of what happened the night before when the woman from the perfect couple disappeared. Paula Hawkins debut novel, The Girl on the Train is an addictive, HItchcockian thriller that explores how well we know others and how well we know ourselves.

Ove would never call himself cranky; he just sees that there is right and wrong in the world: He’s right, and everyone else is wrong.  That may be why most of his neighbors call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” However, when an accident prone man, his pregnant wife and two children move in next door,  Ove is forced to step out of his comfort zone and engage in the world around him, eventually banning together with his neighbors to save one of their own.  A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman brings together an interesting cast of characters and challenges the way we look at our neighbors.

Before Will Traynor’s accident, he had lived a large and adventurous life, but since becoming bound to a wheelchair, he has hardly left the renovated stables his parents fixed up for his use.  Before Louisa Clark went to work for the Traynors, she had been a gregarious waitress who loved working with people, and had never left the security of her hometown.  Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes brings together two very different people whose lives are changed as barriers are broken, secrets are revealed and a very special relationship emerges.