NBS recommends start-of-school reads

Passion

By Lauren Kate

P499

MANILA, Philippines - Sweeping across the centuries, Passion is the third novel in the unforgettably epic Fallen series. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart; Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn’t need to be that way. Luce is certain that something or someone in a past life can help her in her present one. So she begins the most important journey of this lifetime — going back eternities to witness firsthand her romances with Daniel, and finally unlock the key to making their love last. Cam and the legions of angels and Outcasts are desperate to catch Luce, but none are as frantic as Daniel. He chases Luce through their shared pasts, terrified of what might happen if she rewrites history.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – The Ugly Truth

By Jeff Kinney

P299

Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it’s cracked up to be? Greg suddenly finds himself dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come with getting older — all without his best friend, Rowley, at his side. Can Greg make it through on his own? Or will he have to face the “ugly truth”?

One Summer

By David Baldacci

P649

It’s almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their children. Then tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident and the children are separated from one another. Just when all seems lost, Jack begins to recover in a miraculous turn of events. He rises from what should have been his deathbed, determined to bring his fractured family back together. Until one unforgettable summer, Jack begins to learn and love again, and he and his children learn how to become a family once more.

Carte Blanche 007

By Jeffery Deaver

P645

James Bond, in his early 30s and already a veteran of the Afghan War, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of M15, M16, and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence is deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary. A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week, and Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission.

Robopocalypse

By Daniel H. Wilson

P685

In the near future, at a precise moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will spontaneously malfunction. It will untie and begin to turn against us. A massively powerful artificial intelligence called Archos, taking on the persona of a shy human boy, comes online and can’t be contained – it begins, unbeknownst to humans, to silently take over our smart cars, power grids, aircraft guidance systems, and computer networks — the entire global assembly that runs our lives. At a moment known later as Zero Hour, when the robot war suddenly ignites, humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united.