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Jodi Picoult
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Pub. Date
p2011
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Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
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When her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
46) The tenth circle
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Tells the powerful story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child. Laura Stone teaches at a local college and is married to Daniel, a comic book artist. Their idyllic lives are turned upside down when their daughter, Trixie, accuses her ex-boyfriend of raping her. When he later dies in an apparent suicide, the family finds itself in the center of a high profile investigation that rocks their community revealing just how far parents...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
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