NBS recommends assorted reads for avid book lovers

HAVE A LITTLE FAITH

By Mitch Albom

P295

MANILA, Philippines - Mitch Albom’s Have a Little Faith is the story of a faith journey that could become a classic. Those who were born into faith, have lost faith, or are still searching will all be engaged and challenged by this powerful story of “finding faith” in relationships with others and with something greater than ourselves. Never satisfied with easy answers or soft platitudes, Mitch explores some of life’s greatest mysteries and unanswered questions with great honesty, depth and self-reflection. In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds two men, two faiths, two communities that will inspire readers everywhere.

ROMEO & JULIET & VAMPIRES

Adapted from William Shakespeare

by Claudia Gabel

P325

The Capulets and the Montagues have some deep and essential differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can escape their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to kill their undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their blood feud is unstoppable. So it’s really quite a problem when Juliet, a vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should be hunting her, fall desperately in love. What they don’t realize is how deadly their love will turn out to be or what it will mean for their afterlives.

ROOM: A NOVEL

By Emma Donoghue

P549

Jack is a typical five-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way because he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, Room is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter Room will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.

VANISHED BOOK ONE &TWO

By Meg Cabot

P359

Jessica Mastriani has never liked attention. All she wants is to make it to high school graduation like any ordinary girl. But when Jess is struck by lightning, she becomes anything but ordinary: suddenly she has the ability to locate missing children. Now Jess is getting noticed in all the wrong ways and by all the wrong people. The media is obsessed with her and her story. The FBI is tapping her phone. And what’s going on with sexy senior Rob? Soon Jess learns the hard way that not everyone who is lost wants to be found. With no one to trust, it’s up to Jess to decide what to do with her new power before it’s decided for her.

POWER THOUGHTS

By Joyce Meyer

P595

Joyce Meyer has a knack for coining phrases, which her fans call “Joyceisms,” and one of her best-loved phrases is “Where the mind goes, the man follows.” This phrase was the basis for Battlefield of the Mind, and in her latest book, Meyer provides “power thoughts,” bringing the reader to a new level of ability to use the mind as a tool for achievement. In Power Thoughts, she outlines a flexible program to turn thoughts into habits, and habits into success. Sections include: The Power of a Positive You, 5 Rules for Keeping Your Attitude at the Right Altitude, More Power to You, and The Power of Perspective.