Critically acclaimed fiction flicks from NBS
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
By Vikas Swarup
Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested. Because how can a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school correctly answer all 12 questions on the television game show Who Will Win a Billion?…unless he has cheated? As the story unfolds, Ram explains to his lawyer how he knew the answer to each question by telling a chapter of his amazing life — from the day he was salvaged from a dustbin to his meeting with a security-crazed Australian army colonel while performing as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Stunning a television audience of millions, Ram draws on a store of street wisdom and accidental encounters that provides him with the essential keys not only to the quiz show but also to life itself.
DEAD UNTIL DARK
By Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much. Not because she’s not pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, Sookie has this sort of “disability.” She can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He’s tall, dark, handsome — and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life. But Bill has a disability of his own: He’s a vampire with a bad reputation. He hands with a seriously creepy crowd, all suspected of murder. And when one of Sookie’s coworkers is killed, she fears she’s next.
THE CURIOUS CASE OF
BENJAMIN BUTTON
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
In 1860, Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces his life — he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse. This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
By Richard Yates
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler seem to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank’s job is dull. And April never did see herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble.
DEXTER: AN OMNIBUS
By Jeff Lindsay
Darkly Dreaming Dexter: Dexter Morgan can’t stand the sight of blood, which makes his job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami PD a little tricky. But it means that he’s very tidy when it comes to his hobby: murder. After all, even though Dexter only ever kills bad people, he doesn’t want to draw attention to it. But now there’s another killer out there who’s being a whole lot less subtle
Dearly Devoted Dexter: Miami’s best-dressed serial killer is getting twitchy — he hasn’t killed for months. Ever since their paths first crossed, Sergeant Doakes hasn’t let Dexter Morgan out of his sight. Then a body turns up, mutilated and barely alive. To trap the torturer, Doakes and Dexter will have to work together, if they can trust each other. It’s a devil’s pact and one of them will have to be the bait.
Dexter in the Dark: When Dexter is brought in to analyze a charred headless corpse, it seems he’s dealing with a killer even more sinister than he is, and one with a personal interest in him. And with Dexter now having a wedding to plan and a family to protect, the stakes are high. As he realizes his stepchildren might share his bloodlust, if he’s ever to help them target it, Dexter will first have to stay alive himself.
