Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Keywords: novel, keeper, sister
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743454537
ISBN-13: 9780743454537

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she 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 Kat

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Avo
Keywords: story, love, pact
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061150142
ISBN-13: 9780061150142

Until the phone calls came at three o’clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead—shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father’s cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pact—leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the chi

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: truth, plain
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-08-07
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1416547819
ISBN-13: 9781416547815

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 the woman at the center of the storm.The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the child’s life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-cit

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: novel, circle, tenth
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-10-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 074349671X
ISBN-13: 9780743496711

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult’s The Tenth Circle is a metaphorical journey through Dante’s Inferno, told through the eyes of a small Maine family whose hidden demons haunt every aspect of their seemingly peaceful existence. Woven throughout the novel are a series of dramatic illustrations that pay homage to the family’s patriarch (comic book artist Daniel Stone), and add a unique twist to this gripping, yet somewhat rhetorical tale. Trixie Stone is an imaginative, perceptive 14 year old whose life begins to unravel when Jason Underhill, Bethel High’s star hockey play

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, heart, harvesting
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1995-04-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140230270
ISBN-13: 9780140230277

The author of Picture Perfect "explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood" (New York Times Book Review). Paige’s mother left when she was five. When Paige becomes a mother herself, she is overwhelmed by the demands. Unable to forget her past, Paige struggles with the difficulties of marriage and motherhood.

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: minutes, nineteen
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-02-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743496736
ISBN-13: 9780743496735

Best known for tackling controversial issues through richly told fictional accounts, Jodi Picoult’s 14th novel, Nineteen Minutes, deals with the truth and consequences of a smalltown high-school shooting. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Picoult offers reads a glimpse of what would cause a 17-year-old to wake up one day, load his backpack with four guns, and kill nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. As with any Picoult novel, the answers are never black and white, and it is her exceptional ability to blur the lines between right and wrong that make this author su

Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Pre
Keywords: novel, match, perfect
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-02-04
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743418735
ISBN-13: 9780743418737

What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice? Perfect Match In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Ni