A teen-ager who was conceived so she could be a bone marrow transplant for her cancer-stricken older sister files a lawsuit against her family.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781439157381
Category: Fiction
Page: 451
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A teen-ager who was conceived so she could be a bone marrow transplant for her cancer-stricken older sister files a lawsuit against her family.New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher:
ISBN: 1428717269
Category: Domestic fiction
Page: 423
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Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged -- until now. When their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlists the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you?FICTION Featuring a WSP Readers Club Guide Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town ...
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743496735
Category: Fiction
Page: 486
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In the aftermath of a horrific small-town school shooting, lawyer Jordan McAfee finds himself defending a youth who desperately needs someone on his side, while intrepid detective Patrick DuCharme works with a primary witness in the daughter of the superior court judge assigned to the case. By the author of The Tenth Circle. Reprint. 800,000 first printing.FICTIOt Featuring a WSP Readers Club Guide From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country— and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending ...
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781416547815
Category: Fiction
Page: 436
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In the small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, peace is shattered by the discovery of a dead infant in the barn of an Amish farmer.Once again, Picoult mesmerizes and enthralls readers with this story of redemption, justice, and love.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781501102431
Category: Fiction
Page: 624
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The acclaimed #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation. Once again, Picoult mesmerizes and enthralls readers with this story of redemption, justice, and love.This book brings together essays on love from people all around the country whose sentiments and stories will surprise, move, and inspire you.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743431019
Category: Fiction
Page: 373
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Back in print by popular demand, Picoult's acclaimed debut novel treats fans old and new to a poignant story of family, friendship and love.Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743296443
Category: Fiction
Page: 532
View: 111
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior. By the author of My Sister's Keeper. Reprint. A best-selling book.This breathtaking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult asks: Do we love across time, or in spite of it? “Sometimes I wonder.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743480758
Category: Fiction
Page: 432
View: 828
This breathtaking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult asks: Do we love across time, or in spite of it? “Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?” An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there’s nothing spiritual about the property. Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He’s driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He’s been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancée’s death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult’s enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion. Hailed by critics as a “master” storyteller (The Washington Post), Picoult once again “pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkable” (Denver Post). Second Glance, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history—Vermont’s eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s—to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us—literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743418713
Category: Fiction
Page: 7
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Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.What happens when you do all the right things for all the wrong reasons?
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743418737
Category: Fiction
Page: 7
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What happens when you do all the right things for all the wrong reasons? As an assistant district attorney in York County, Maine, Nina Frost prosecutes the sort of crimes that tear families apart. She helps clients navigate their way through a nightmare – even though the legal system is not always the faultless compass they want and need it to be. She learns that the easiest way to cross this devastating minefield time and time again is to offer compassion, battle fiercely for justice, and keep her emotional distance. But when Nina and her husband Caleb discover that their five-year-old son Nathaniel has been sexually abused, that distance is impossible to maintain. The world Nina inhabits now seems different from the one she lived in yesterday; the lines between family and professional life are erased; and answers to questions she thought she knew are no longer easy to find. Overcome by anger and desperate for vengeance, Nina ignites a battle that may cause her to lose the very thing she's fighting for.