NBS recommends conspiracy revelations

INVISIBLE

By James Patterson

P315

MANILA, Philippines -  Everyone thinks Emma Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding a link between hundreds of unsolved cases – one of them the death of her job as an FBI researcher. Not even Emma’s ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison “Books” Bookman, believes her claim that these dozens of deaths across the country are connected. That is, until Emma finds a piece of evidence Books can’t ignore.

THE KINGS CURSE

By Philippa Gregory

P315

They trust her to watch over the rise of the house of Tudor. She’s the only one who knows how it can fall. She was born Margaret of York. But when the Tudors stole the throne of England, they buried her royal name in marriage to the loyal Tudor supporter Sir Richard Pole. Margaret’s destiny is not to live in the shadows. She becomes confidante to the lovely young Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon. And when the newly crowned Henry VIII takes Katherine as his bride, he honors Margaret with the little of Countess of Salisbury and restores her massive family fortune. But royal favor seldom lasts long. Henry VIII executes Margaret’s uncle and threatens her precious sons.

THE BURIED GIANT

By Kazou Ishiguro

P799

The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain to find the son they have not seen for years, the son they can scarcely remember. They know they will face many hazards—some strange and otherworldly—but they cannot foresee how their journey will reveal to them the dark and forgotten corners of their love for each other.

THE FIFTH GOSPEL

By Ian Caldwell

P615

In Ian Caldwell’s masterful follow-up to his international sensation The Rule of Four, a lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope’s final wish converge to send two brothers—both Vatican priests—on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity’s greatest historical mystery.

TOM CLANCY: FULL FORCE AND EFFECT

By Mark Greaney

P1,195

A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost John Clark and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don’t have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. While the international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade, a young, untested dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock.