Songs of the Humpback Whale is the debut novel of Jodi Picoult. It is about a woman who chooses to leave her emotionally abusive and distant husband behind in favor of driving across the country from San Diego, California to live with her brother in Massachusetts. Her teenage daughter chooses to come with her. Oliver, …
The novel Harvesting the Heart is author Jodi Picoult's second novel, after Songs of the Humpback Whale, published in 1993 by Viking. The novel comprises three parts: Conception, Growth and Delivery. A review by ConsumerHelpWeb describes Picoult's novels as "absorbing and entertaining", and this is no exception, it …
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper examines the fault lines of a troubled marriage in this “unfailingly intelligent…undeniably literary psychological drama”(Booklist). To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of …
Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy.Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheaval, and drives a wedge into a contented …
Picoult brings to life a female prosecutor whose cherished family is shattered when she learns that her five-year-old son has been sexually abused.What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice?In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney …
Jacob Hunt è un adolescente autistico. Non sa interpretare i comportamenti e i gesti degli altri e gli altri non capiscono i suoi. Come molti ragazzi affetti dalla sindrome di Asperger, Jacob ha degli interessi spiccati, anzi ossessivi: la sua passione sono i casi giudiziari e più di una volta si è presentato sulla …
Salem Falls is a 2001 novel by Jodi Picoult about what happens to a person when he is given a label and not allowed to escape it.
Tutti i genitori in attesa vi diranno che non vogliono un bambino perfetto, ma che vogliono un bambino sano. Anche Charlotte e Sean O'Keefe avrebbero chiesto un bambino sano, se avessero potuto scegliere. Invece, la loro vita è fatta di preoccupazioni, di notti insonni, di conti che si accumulano, degli sguardi …