From the beloved author of fifteen bestsellers comes a stirring story of a deception that reaches across continents, oceans, and years. A prosperous family in Berlin cannot see what the future holds when they adopt an orphaned girl, Lore, instantly an older sister to their biological daughter, Caroline. As the story opens, it is 1939, and Caroline and Lore are young women, living amid the madness engulfing Europe. As their parents disappear into this madness, the two girls flee to Switzerland. What happens next will change both of their lives forever as a single act of duplicity reverberates through three generations even as they grasp for new hope and happiness in America. A story of family and lovers, betrayals real and imagined, Legacy of Silence will captivate readers from beginning to end. Belva Plain has crafted a remarkable tale, spanning the decades from the eve of World War II in Germany to the United States of today, that led The New York Times to proclaim her "in a class by herself."

Set largely in the elegant city of Geneva in the mid-1930s, Belle du Seigneur is a terrifying and seductive novel, comic in form and deadly serious in its deflation of the common pieties. Adrian Deume is an aspirant 'B' in the sprawling bureaucracy of the League of Nations, and also the head of the ghastly Deume clan, portrayed in a brilliantly sustained commentary on middle-class manners. Then there is a generous helping of the 'Valiant', a squabbling quintet who stand, in comic invention, somewhere between Baron Munchhausen and the Marx Brothers. These distinct worlds have a common centre: Solal, Under-Secretary General of the League of Nations. A Mediterranean Jew blessed with great gifts and cursed by crippling idealism, he sees all too clearly that international understanding is eternally undermined by personal and national interests. But it is his affair with Ariane Deume that finally precipitates his fall. He rejects the world and attempts to achieve through love the Absolute which he craves. But it is the eternal contradiction that perfection, once achieved, cannot endure, and Cohen leads him to his fate with a unique brand of teasing, clear-eyed pessimism.

Harriet Rose, 26, is an American photographer just winning recognition for her work. A travel fellowship brings her to visit her best friend and former roommate, Anne Gordon, in Switzerland. In an ongoing letter to her boyfriend, Harriet reports on strange developments in Anne's life, most notably her affair with a much older married man, which seems to be leading to a disastrous conclusion. Before she can rescue Anne, events take a series of unexpected turns, and Harriet must reexamine her own life and past, and come to terms with the difficulties and possibilities of human relationships. Already excerpted in The New Yorker, Katharine Weber's witty first novel of attraction and deception, a tale with the sensibility of a Margaret Atwood, pulses with cultural references and word games that echo Nabokov.

It's 1962, and Jacqueline is fighting the temptation to ignore moral standards and conventions with her fianc?, Chris. Confused by her conflicting feelings, she accepts the offer of a three-week working holiday in Switzerland. Away from home and the steadying influence of Chris, she finds herself desperately attracted to the handsome Antoine. Jackie, still deeply in love with Chris, holds out against Antoine's charms - but then an unlucky skiing accident undermines her good intentions...