L'Amerique by Thierry Sagnier (2018) Apprentice House 

A memoir of the author’s life growing up in France, after the war, then in the U.S. where his father was employed, and his mother struggled to adapt.

The Kremlin's Candidate by Jason Matthews (2018) Scribner 

Our heroine, the red sparrow, has become the head of the SVR, the spy ring for Russia and has found herself on the inside of Putin's closest advisers.  But her immediate boss suspects there is a mole at the highest levels.  Meanwhile, he has positioned a Navy Rear Admiral, whom he has used for a decade, to become the head of the CIA.

Uprooted by Naomi Novik (2015) Del Rey 

A young woman, Agneiszka,  is of an age to be among those selected once every ten years by a local wizard.  Everyone expects her best friend, the prettiest girl in the valley to be selected, but instead it is her, the homeliest, most disaster-prone girl in the valley.  When she questions why he selected her, in his tower, he tells her she is a witch.  She turns out not to be any witch, but one with Baba Jaga's capabilities.  And between them they rescue the Queen, who has been a captive of the Wood for the last twenty years and deal with all the disasters that come to Agneiszka so naturally.

The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck (2017) William Morrow 

Three very different women live through World War II in a castle in Germany.

Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard (1991) Delacorte Press 

Bob is a judge, and not a nice one.  While he hands down maximum sentences for the least perceived slight in the courtroom, he is always trying to bed any woman he comes across, in spite of the fact that he is married.  

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs (2008) Ace 

A side series to Mercy Thompson featuring Anna, an Omega, and Charles, her mate and the Marrock’s son and enforcer.  The Moor is a  very old werewolf and now he and the pack are threatened by an old enemy.

Dead and Alive by Dean Koontz (2009) Del Rey Books

The third volume in the Frankenstein Epic - our two intrepid New Orleans cops get on the move and find they have to protect their household - Deucalian helps move a child to Tibet through a doorway and the new humans in the dump are changed and no longer feel the need to kill humans - all due to a unique creature who can reach into their minds and change their programming.  The whole point of the novel is to isolate and kill Victor Frankenstein, destroy his work and free the world from the threat of dominance.  But he is always a step ahead.