NBS recommends guilty pleasures

PRINCE LESTAT: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES

By Anne Rice

P995

MANILA, Philippines - The long-awaited novel that picks up where The Vampire Lestat left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces—the characters, legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles. Vampires have been proliferating out of control, burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned…Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in different cities. And, at the book’s center, the great hope of the Undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat.

SING YOU HOME

By Jodi Picoult

P315

Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people—even those she loves and trusts most—don’t want that to happen.

THE CASUAL VACANCY

By J.K. Rowling

P375

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations?

BEAUTIFUL YOU

By Chuck Palahniuk

P749

Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and. It comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by C. Linus Maxwell, a software mega-billionaire. Soon, Penny discovers that she is his test subject for the final development of a line of feminine products to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell’s plan for battery-powered world domination must be stopped.

THE WICKED YEARS

By Gregory Maguire

P1,599

The complete book collection of the New York Times bestselling The Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, including Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz.