NBS recommends bestselling page-turners

THE LINCOLN MYTH

By Steve Berry

P799

MANILA, Philippines - September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president, comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever?

 MR. MERCEDES

By Stephen King

P1,199

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.

THE ONE & ONLY

By Emily Giffin

P995

Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas — a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea’s comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life she’s chosen is really enough for her.

LANDLINE

By Rainbow Rowell

P599

Georgie McCool knows her marriage has been in trouble for a long time. Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. But she doesn’t expect him to pack up the kids and go without her. That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts.

THE SILKWORM: A CARMORAN STRIKE NOVEL

By Robert Galbraith

P749

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days — as he has done before — and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows.