'STILL MINE' by Amy Stuart, Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $24.99
Clare raises suspicions when she arrives in Blackmore, an isolated mining town, and starts asking about Shayna Fowles, a local girl who went missing.
Her presence feels like a threat to the people close to Shayna: Jared, her ex-husband; Charlie, the town's drug dealer; Derek, her family doctor; and even to her parents. But in order to solve the puzzle of Shayna's disappearance, Clare _ who has a secret connection to the girl _ must face her own demons.
'THE FLY TRAP' by Fredrik Sjoberg, translated by Thomas Teal, Vintage, 288 pages, $17
Sjoberg's memoir documents his obsession with collecting the hoverflies from the remote Swedish island where he lived and worked as an entomologist. Drawing on a variety of sources such as D. H. Lawrence and the naturalist Rene Edmond Malaise, Sjoberg looks at what fuels a collector's curiosity and offers nuggets of the history of entomology.
'RESULTS MAY VARY' by Bethany Chase, Ballantine, 352 pages, $17
Art curator Caroline Hammond is shocked to find out that her husband is having an affair with a man. The emotional punch sends her into a spiral of questions about the true nature of their relationship, but also about her future. Caroline must decide whether to move past the betrayal and rebuild their life as a couple or embark on a journey of self-discovery, peppered with family dramas and romantic surprises.
'THE END OF TSARIST RUSSIA' by Dominic Lieven, Penguin, 448 pages, $18
Relying on his exhaustive work in seven Russian archives, Lieven, a distinguished Russian historian, brings a fresh take on the origins of World War I and the Russian Revolution, revealing how entwined the two of them are. Lieven also explains why Russia entered World War I and how modern issues such as the struggle for Ukraine are rooted in the events of 1914.
'THE COURTSHIP OF EVA ELDRIDGE' by Diane Simmons, University Of Iowa, 272 pages, $19.95
Drawing on an impressive collection of 800 letters and papers, Simmons tells the story of Eva Eldridge, a woman whose husband Vick took off soon after their honeymoon in the '50s. The humiliation was only made worse by post-World War II society's pressure to marry. Convinced that her newly minted husband is struggling with post-traumatic stress, Eva decides to track him down. She soon discovers that her hero is a serial bigamist and her name was added to a long list of abandoned wives.
