Jodi Picoult
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
Author
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...
4) Plain truth
Author
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a dead baby under a pile of old blankets in Aaron Fisher's barn sets off a scandal in Amish country and an investigation that could implicate Fisher's eighteen-year-old daughter.
Author
Language
English
Description
Trixie Stone is only a freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks she loves, dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that Jason sexually assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his power to keep his daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so devastating could happen to Trixie--and now he's not sure how to help her....
6) Salem Falls
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
434 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (various pagings) : music ; 28 cm. + 1 sheet of stickers.
Language
English
Description
When Luna, the moon, descends to a small town on earth disguised as a boy named Leo, she falls in love with Prince Jack, who is in love with Felicity, a young lady of noble birth who is a bit of a tomboy, smitten with Leo, and offers sheet music for twenty songs.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 629 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
The people of Sterling, New Hampshire, are forever changed after a shooting at the high school leaves ten people dead, and the judge presiding over the trial tries to remain unbiased, even though her daughter witnessed the events and was friends with the assailant. Presented in Spanish.
9) Piedade
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2011, ©1996
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A novel on love whose protagonists are two married couples. In one case, a farmer's love for his sick wife leads him to kill her. In the second, love brings a police chief back to his wife after an affair. The two cases are linked, the setting is Massachusetts.
Author
Publisher
J'ai Lu
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
637 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
Français
Description
Jack St. Bride was a popular teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school when he was falsely accused of statutory rape. Released after eight months behind bars, he arrives in Salem Falls hoping to start fresh. He lands a job washing dishes at the local diner and even falls in love with the owner, Addie. But then a spoiled local girl accuses Jack of assault, forcing his past into the open and turning the town against him.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Edition
1a ed. en rústica de Atria Books.
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wonder Woman, in her disguise as Diana Prince, a special agent of the Department of Metahuman Affairs, takes on an assignment to track down Wonder Woman, an impossible task that risks revealing her secret identity.