Issue 5 May - June 2012 - Manila Polo Club

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The Lost Years by Mary higgins
Clark ---- biblical scholar Jonathan
lyons believes he has found the
rarest of parchments—a letter
that may have been written by
Jesus Christ. stolen from the
Vatican library in the 1500s,
the letter was assumed to be
lost forever. now, under the
promise of secrecy, Jonathan is
able to confirm his findings with several other
experts. but he also confides to a family friend his
suspicion that someone he once trusted wants
to sell the parchment. a few days later, Jonathan
was found shot to death in his study room. at the
same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering
from alzheimer’s disease, was found hiding in
the study closet, incoherent and clutching the
possible murder weapon. even in her dementia,
Kathleen knows that her husband was carrying
an affair for a long time. Did Kathleen kill her
husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend?
Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who
is in possession of the priceless parchment that
has now gone missing? it is up to their daughter,
twenty-eight year-old Mariah, to clear her mother
of murder charges and unravel the mystery
behind her father’s death.
Stay Close by harlan Coben
--- Megan is a suburban soccer
mom who once walked on the
wild side. now she has two kids,
a perfect husband, a picket
fence, and a growing sense of
dissatisfaction.
ray used to be a talented
documentary photographer, but
at age forty, he finds himself in a
dead- end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to
celebrity-obsessed rich kids.
Jack is a detective who can’t let go of a
cold case—a local husband and father who
disappeared seventeen years ago. he spends the
case’s anniversary visiting a house frozen in time,
the missing man’s family still waiting, his slippers
left by the recliner as if he might show up any
moment to step into them.
Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding
secrets that not even those closest to them would
never suspect, will realize that the past does not
recede. even as the terrible consequences of past
events crash together in the present and threaten
to ruin their lives, they will come to the startling
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realization that they may not want to forget the past
at all. and as each confronts the dark side of the
american Dream- the boredom of a nice suburban
life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation
and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest
facades— they will discover the hard truth that the
line between one kind of life and another can be as
whisper-thin as a heartbeat.
Guilty Wives by James patterson ---- no
husbands allowed. Only minutes after
abbie elliot and her three best friends
step off of a private helicopter, they enter
the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually
pampering hotel they have ever been to.
Their lavish presidential suite overlooks
Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the
sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake,
to the bruno paillard champagne. For
four days they’re free to live someone
else’s life. as the weekend moves into pulsating
discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, abbie is
transported to the greatest pleasure and release she
has ever known.
in the morning’s harsh light, abbie awakens on a
yacht, surrounded by police. What happened last
night? something awful has happened, something
impossible, unthinkable. abbie, Winnie, serena,
and bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest
crime imaginable. and now the vacation of a lifetime
becomes the fight of a lifetime & for survival.
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ChilDren’s bOOKs
Crossed by ally Condie
Divergent by Veronica roth
The Berenstain Bears We Love Mom!
by Jan berenstain
Winter of the Ice Wizard by Mary pope Osborne
The Berenstain Bears’ Class Trip
Thea Stilton and the Secret of the Old Castle
by Geronimo stilton
Field Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo stilton
Manjula bagli
Clementine euyang
evelyn Forbes
bienvenido Tan, Jr.
book Donations
We gratefully acknowledge donations of reading
materials to our library from the following
(as of January 2012):
Carina Titterington
rosalinda unson
isabel Caro Wilson
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