Have Fun this Week!
Dream of strolling down the Champs-élysées—or sipping a café au lait under the Eiffel Tower? These engrossing reads are the next best thing!
✤ Believe in second chances! The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. After a paralyzing breakup long ago, all Monsieur Perdu has left is his floating bookstore on the Seine and a coterie of loyal customers who know he can prescribe exactly the right book to mend broken hearts and souls. The only person he can’t seem to heal through literature is himself. Will finally reading a long-unopened letter help him make peace with his past?
✤ Tag along on an emotional adventure! The Paris Effect by K.S.R. Burns. With an unexpected plot and deep emotional pull, this recent bestseller isn’t your average Paris story. Dear friends Amy and Kat had always planned to take a secret trip to Paris—even Amy’s husband wouldn’t know about it. When Kat tragically dies, Amy works up the courage to leave her rule-following, calorie-obsessed life in Phoenix and make the trip alone. But the City of Light presents its own problems and complications . . . including a brush with the Parisian police.
✤ Get lost in a delicious mystery! The Curse of La Fontaine by M.L. Longworth. Love cozy small-town mysteries? Grab a croissant and dive into this series set in sun- drenched Provence! In the latest installment, Chef Valet has a hit on his hands with his new restaurant and wants to expand. But a powerful local society is fighting him tooth and nail . . . and soon a skeleton is found. Did he unwittingly trigger an age- old curse? Investigative duo—and lovey-dovey newlyweds—verlaque and Bonnet —are determined to find out.
✤ Read a Jazz Age romance! Moonlight Over Paris by Jennifer Robson. Lady Helena Montagu-douglas-parr has always lived a sheltered, aristocratic life in London. But after a broken wartime engagement and harrowing illness, she’s determined to break free and become an artist. In 1924, there’s only one place that will do—paris. Luckily, her free-spirited aunt lives amidst the city’s finest painters, musicians and writers— including Sam Howard, a handsome American journalist reeling from the horrors of the Great War.