Jodi Picoult
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With Asperger's syndrome, teenager Jacob Hunt is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. He normally shows up to crime scenes and helps solve the case, but this time he is the prime suspect. When a murder leads police to question Jacob, they interpret his AS symptoms as a sign of guilt and cast a very public spotlight on Jacob...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Description
A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.
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Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly...
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Penguin Audio/Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
15 CDs (17.5 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
12 CDs (15.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Shay Bourne shattered June Nealon's life when he murdered her husband and daughter. Now, as New Hampshire's first death row inmate in 58 years, his last request is one he believes might bring him salvation. Shay wants to donate his heart to June's other, ailing daughter. But since he is scheduled for lethal injection, this not possible. Further complications arise when Shay begins performing miracles in full view of witnesses--including his Catholic...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
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"When Delilah is united with Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairytale, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred, and all must be resolved for the two to live happily ever after"--
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Publisher
Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xi, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm
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This moving story of love and family is told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned marine biologist husband, and begins a journey across the country with Rebecca in search of understanding about her troubled past.
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Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2019,©2019.
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506 pages ; 23 cm
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"Una novela que desaf?a a los lectores a reflexionar sobre sus propias creencias y prejuicios racistas. Seg?n la cr?tica, esta es la novela m?s importante de una de las autoras best seller m?s comprometida del momento. Jodi Picoult es ?nica moviendo conciencias y haciendo reflexionar al lector sobre temas pol?micos, como el racismo en Estados Unidos. Ruth Jefferson es enfermera en la sala de partos de un hospital de Connecticut, una profesional con...
14) Mermaid
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Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
2017, ©2017
Physical Desc
1 CD (49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Once, Hope Payne was a mermaid, performing at the local theme park and captivating audiences young and old. Today, she?s married to a pragmatic marine biologist who has filled the pool in their backyard with flounder for a special study. Before he begins, the fish vanish?echoing a loss Hope alone can understand. She senses there?s something underwater, something alive and hungry for more, but is she in too deep to ever resurface?
15) The tenth circle
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When the ghost of his murdered fourteen-year-old daughter identifies her boyfriend as her killer, an overprotective father with a secret past decides to take the law into his own hands, a choice that takes him into the wilds of the Alaskan bush.
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Publisher
W. Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 24 cm.
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A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it.