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| My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2005) |
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| Kate Fitzgerald has had leukemia since she was 2 years old, and her family conceived their next child, Anna, in hopes that her genetic makeup could be used to help Kate stay alive. Now Kate is 16, and Anna 13. Kate is getting worse, and Anna's parents want her to donate a kidney as one last chance for her sister. After years of surgery, trauma, and heartbreak, Anna rebels. She even finds herself a lawyer to plead her case. As the hearing approaches, Kate's condition worsens, their older ... |
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| Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2008) |
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| Jodi Picoult has a knack for turning hot-button contemporary issues into morally troubling and fiercely paced bestsellers. She follows up the phenomenal success of MY SISTER'S KEEPER with NINETEEN MINUTES, a complex and disturbing novel about high-school shootings. |
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| Vanishing Acts (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2005) |
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| Delia Hopkins is living a placid enough life in New Hampshire with her little daughter, and is about to finally marry the child's father, Eric, a lawyer. Then, suddenly Delia's life bursts wide open: her adored father, Andrew, is arrested for kidnapping--a crime that goes back 28 years, to when Delia was four years old. It was Delia herself whom her father kidnapped, whisking her away from the drunken mother Delia thought had died years ago. This bizarre, long-held secret explains the odd ... |
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| Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult, Hardcover, 2007) |
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| "In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those who were not inside the school that ... |
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| The Tenth Circle (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2006) |
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| Jodi Picoult's twelfth novel is permeated with themes from Dante's INFERNO. Daniel Stone, a successful graphic novelist, is working on a new book about a man not unlike himself who is able to morph into a bloodthirsty animal named Wildclaw when his anger is roused. Daniel's wife, Laura, is a professor at a local college, where she specializes in Dante. Their 14-year-old daughter Trixie has successfully entered the social scene, even dating the star of the high school hockey team. When ... |
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| Plain Truth (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2001) |
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| An Amish teenager becomes pregnant without benefit of marriage, gives birth, and is then accused of killing her child in this novel about a trial in Amish country. |
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| Perfect Match (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2003) |
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| Nina is a D.A., her husband is a stonemason, and when their 5-year-old son is molested they are faced with a dilemma: only little Nathaniel can point to his abuser, but the trauma has left him unable to speak. |
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| Salem Falls (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2002) |
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| After being wrongfully convicted of statutory rape, Jack St. Bride moves to a small New Hampshire town to start a new life. When a teenaged would-be witch is raped in the woods, Jack becomes the chief suspect in the crime. Soon, the whole town is drawn into a maelstrom of accusations and disturbing revelations. |
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| The Pact (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2006) |
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| A teenager named Em Gold falls in love with the son of family friends, and her resulting pregnancy turns her happiness to despair. She persuades her boyfriend to shoot her, and he is, predictably, accused of murder. The two families' histories are explored in flashbacks, and the novel ends with a stirring courtroom scene. |
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| An Amish teenager becomes pregnant without benefit of marriage, gives birth, and is then accused of killing her child in this novel about a trial in Amish country. |
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| The Pact (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 1999) |
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| A teenager named Em Gold falls in love with the son of family friends, and her resulting pregnancy turns her happiness to despair. She persuades her boyfriend to shoot her, and he is, predictably, accused of murder. The two families' histories are explored in flashbacks, and the novel ends with a stirring courtroom scene. |
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| A teenager named Em Gold falls in love with the son of family friends, and her resulting pregnancy turns her happiness to despair. She persuades her boyfriend to shoot her, and he is, predictably, accused of murder. The two families' histories are explored in flashbacks, and the novel ends with a stirring courtroom scene. |
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| The Tenth Circle (Jodi Picoult, Hardcover, 2006) |
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| Jodi Picoult's twelfth novel is permeated with themes from Dante's INFERNO. Daniel Stone, a successful graphic novelist, is working on a new book about a man not unlike himself who is able to morph into a bloodthirsty animal named Wildclaw when his anger is roused. Daniel's wife, Laura, is a professor at a local college, where she specializes in Dante. Their 14-year-old daughter Trixie has successfully entered the social scene, even dating the star of the high school hockey team. When ... |
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| Second Glance (Jodi Picoult, Paperback, 2004) |
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| When a clash develops between land speculators and an Abenaki tribe whose ancestors are buried on the property in question, a "ghost hunter" named Ross Wakeman is hired to check it out. Still suffering from the death in a car crash of the woman he loved, Ross thinks he will never fall in love again, and finds solace in his paranormal researches. Then he meets Lia, with whom he finds both passion and a strange, other-worldly mystery. |
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| Vanishing Acts (Jodi Picoult, Hardcover, 2005) |
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| Delia Hopkins is living a placid enough life in New Hampshire with her little daughter, and is about to finally marry the child's father, Eric, a lawyer. Then, suddenly Delia's life bursts wide open: her adored father, Andrew, is arrested for kidnapping--a crime that goes back 28 years, to when Delia was four years old. It was Delia herself whom her father kidnapped, whisking her away from the drunken mother Delia thought had died years ago. This bizarre, long-held secret explains the odd ... |
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| Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult, Hardcover, 2007) |
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| Jodi Picoult has a knack for turning hot-button contemporary issues into morally troubling and fiercely paced bestsellers. She follows up the phenomenal success of MY SISTER'S KEEPER with NINETEEN MINUTES, a complex and disturbing novel about high-school shootings. |
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| My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult, Hardcover, 2004) |
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| Kate Fitzgerald has had leukemia since she was 2 years old, and her family conceived their next child, Anna, in hopes that her genetic makeup could be used to help Kate stay alive. Now Kate is 16, and Anna 13. Kate is getting worse, and Anna's parents want her to donate a kidney as one last chance for her sister. After years of surgery, trauma, and heartbreak, Anna rebels. She even finds herself a lawyer to plead her case. As the hearing approaches, Kate's condition worsens, their older ... |
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