The Girl You Left Behind: by Jojo Moyes Conversation Starters. In The Girl You Left Behind, the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Me Before You, tells the story of two strong women who lived a century apart. Sophie, whose husband painted her portrait in the early 20th century, lives in France and has to make difficult decisions to ensure her husband's return from World War I. Liv is a young widow who lives in the early 21st century; her husband...

Rule #1 of falling in love with the girl you left behind: This time, stay. Even when said girl is the one pushing you out the door. Ten years ago, Nate Madison left Gulf City when his parents divorced, splitting up their family. He never expected to return, to have to face everyone he left behind. When he crashes in the most important surf competition of his career, it takes away the one thing he's always relied on, a love for the ocean. And he isn't...

A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her father to grab her....

"This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime - and long-distance - crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back ito her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong years ago, and never replied to any of Elsie's letters...

"From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark encounters with familiar fairy tales, odd people from history, and weirdos who may be living right next door. Among the characters in these bizarre stories, a starving beauty finds a beast who can save her village, a man eats everything in sight but is never full, a woman gives birth to bloody animal parts,...

"From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end...

A little girl named Grace uses the hints that magician Angelica left behind to magically change people's destinies, but something is messing with the magic in Willow Falls. Grace turns to her friends for help as she tries to keep them from making catastrophic choices and pushes her powers to the limit.

Crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover - and into danger - in the second of this intriguing crime series. 17-year-old Jessica is missing. There are no clues as to why she disappeared - apart from the note she left behind: I love you. Goodbye forever. It turns out that Jessica is not the first teenager to have gone missing, nor the first to have left exactly the same note. With a personal family connection to the missing girl, crime...