NBS recommends compelling confessions

THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING

By Robyn Schneider

P349

MANILA, Philippines - Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with his new girl Cassidy Thorpe.

ELEANOR & PARK

By Rainbow Rowell

P425

Two misfits. One extraordinary love.

Eleanor…Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor.

Park…He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There’s a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises…Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed 16-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

ATTACHMENTS

By Rainbow Rowell

P529

“Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you...”

Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.

Meanwhile, Lincoln O’Neill can’t believe this is his job now—reading other people’s e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers—not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.

When Lincoln comes across Beth’s and Jennifer’s messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can’t help being entertained—and captivated—by their stories.

By the time Lincoln realizes he’s falling for Beth, it’s way too late to introduce himself.

What would he say...?

THE CUCKOO’S  CALLING

By Robert Galbraith

P395

When a troubled model falls to her death from the balcony of her London home, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to investigate.

Strike is a war veteran—wounded both physically and psychologically—and his private life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model’s complex world, the darker things get—and the closer he comes to terrible danger.

WINTER’S TALE (MOVIE TIE-IN)

By Mark Helprin

P365

Mark Helprin’s masterpiece will transport you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows. One winter night, Peter Lake—master mechanic and second-storey man—attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.