NBS recommends reads for the new year
START OVER, FINISH RICH
By David Bach
P419
MANILA, Philippines - Believe it or not, recessions make millionaires! Will you be one? In Start Over, Finish Rich, America’s best-loved financial expert, David Bach, explains that 2010 will be the best opportunity for building wealth we have seen in decades. And, as the economy recovers, you must be set up to recover with it. Bach’s easy, take-action plan will show you how.
Start Over, Finish Rich supplies the 10 crucial moves you must make in 2010 to get back on track and recapture your dreams of a richer future. As Bach says, “A recession is a terrible thing to waste — so don’t waste this one! Use it instead to get rich.” Read Start Over, Finish Rich and let David Bach put you and your family back on the path to financial freedom.
TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL
By David Michaels
P419
Third Echelon’s Sam Fisher is one of the deadliest men in the world.
Even the FBI and CIA are in the dark about the black ops that he takes on.
He’s known as a Splinter Cell, and sometimes he’s the only force holding the country together…Third Echelon is training new recruits who will be given a necessary but terrible mission.
They must capture or kill one of their own, a man who’s gone rogue and sold out his government.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
By James Patterson
P315
Only one man in the NYPD can tackle this high-profile case: Detective Michael Bennett. A calculating murderer called the Teacher is terrorizing New York City’s powerful, arrogant elite. Rich people must mind their manners — or die.
For anyone else, the pressure would be overwhelming, but Mike is ready.
Taking care of 10 children has prepared him for the job! With his hands already full — his kids have caught a virulent flu — he must track down the killer.
As a secret pattern emerges in the Teacher’s lessons, Detective Bennett has just a few precious hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in its history.
FIRE AND ICE
By Julie Garwood
P335
Sophie Rose is a crime reporter at a major Chicago newspaper and the daughter of Bobby Rose, a charming gentleman and big-time thief. When asked to write an exposé about her notorious father, Sophie quits and goes to work at a small newspaper, covering local personalities such as William Harrington, the 5K runner whose trademark is red socks. Those socks — with Sophie’s business card tucked inside — are practically all that’s found after Harrington is killed near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, seemingly in a brutal polar bear attack.
Sophie heads north to investigate, but danger follows in her wake. After one attempt on her life, she’s assigned brash but sexy Jack MacAlister as a bodyguard. But Sophie and Jack will soon be fighting more than their growing passion for each other. Powerful forces will store at nothing to present the exposure of the sinister conspiracy Sophie and Jack are about to uncover.
TERMINAL FREEZE
By Lincoln Child
P335
Alaska’s Federal Wildlife Zone is one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on Earth.
For paleoecologist Evan Marshall, an expedition to the Zone offers an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the mounting effects of climate change.
But once there Marshall and his intrepid team make an astonishing discovery: an enormous prehistoric animal encased in solid ice.
Despite repeated warnings from the local village, and the Marshall’s own mounting concern, the expedition sponsors want the creature cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on a live television spectacular…But then the creature disappears and an ancient horror is unleashed.
