Second ​Glance

Jodi Picoult - The ​Tenth Circle
Trixie ​Stone is an imaginative, perceptive 14 year old whose life begins to unravel when Jason Underhill, Bethel High's star hockey player, breaks up with her, leaving a void that can only be filled by the blood spilled during shameful self-mutilations in the girls' bathroom. While Trixie's dad Daniel notices his daughter's recent change in demeanor, he turns a blind eye, just as he does to the obvious affair his wife Laura, a college professor, is barely trying to conceal. When Trixie gets raped at a friend's party, Daniel and Laura are forced to deal not only with the consequences of their daughter's physical and emotional trauma, but with their own transgressions as well. For Daniel, that means reflecting on a childhood spent as the only white kid in a native Alaskan village, where isolation and loneliness turned him into a recluse, only to be born again after falling in love with his wife. Laura, who blames her family's unraveling on her selfish affair, must decide how to reconcile her personal desires with her loved ones' needs.

Jodi Picoult - Lone ​Wolf
A ​life hanging in the balance.a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family, love, and letting go. Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision? Lone Wolf explores the notion of family, and the love, protection and strength it's meant to offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it, is the very thing that pulls it apart? Another tour de force from Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf examines the wild and lonely terrain upon which love battles reason.

Jodi Picoult - Harvesting ​the Heart
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.

Jodi Picoult - Keeping ​Faith
When ​seven-year-old Faith White and her mother, Mariah, swing by the house on the way to ballet class, they find that Daddy is home and he's brought a playmate. This is not the first time he's been caught cheating. After the fuss and feathers have settled and Dad has moved out, Faith begins talking to an imaginary friend who, it seems, is God. And God is not male but female. Faith is able to effect miraculous cures and is also occasionally afflicted with stigmata. When the media gets wind of this, the circus begins. The local rabbi takes an interest (Faith and Mariah are technically Jewish), and the local Catholic priest pays several inquiring visits. There is also a gaggle of psychologists. Throw in a professional atheist for the romance angle and a vicious custody fight with an egomaniacal lawyer, and you have a riveting read.

Jodi Picoult - Songs ​of the Humpback Whale
As ​Picoult uses five voices to tell a complex tale of love, friendship and a Faulknerian family history, her mastery of language strongly individuates her characters. The primary voice in this accomplished first novel belongs to Jane Jones, a speech pathologist living in San Diego, Calif. Other narrators are her daughter Rebecca; her husband, Oliver, a marine biologist renowned for his research on the songs of humpback whales; her brother Joley; and her lover, Sam. When an argument between Jane and Oliver culminates in her striking him, Jane is shattered. A childhood victim of physical and sexual abuse, Jane has tried to submerge her memories, but this outbreak of violence causes her to reexamine her life. On a cross-country automobile trip, Jane and Rebecca travel to Stow, Mass., where Joley is living and where each woman meets the man she believes is her destiny. Jane relates the events that occur from San Diego to Stow, while Rebecca tells the story in reverse, flashing back from the climax. Their stories intersect in an Iowa cornfield that still bears the wreckage of the airliner on which then-three-year-old Rebecca was being sent back to her father during her parents' earlier separation; she was one of five survivors

Jodi Picoult - Salem ​Falls
When ​Jack St. Bride arrives in the small town of Salem Falls, all he wants is to escape his past. He's spent the last eight months in jail, after being falsely accused of having an affair with an underage student at the school where he taught. In Salem Falls, he gets a job as a dishwasher at a local diner and tentatively begins a romance with the diner's owner, Addie, who is still mourning the death of her young daughter, born after Addie was raped in high school by three drunk boys. As she and Jack fall in love, they both see hope for the future. But their newfound love is threatened when the residents of Salem Falls learn of Jack's conviction and begin harassing him. When, predictably, a teenage girl accuses Jack of raping her, he finds himself back in jail, fighting a serious charge and the town's prejudice. Addie wrestles with her doubts and memories of her own rape, but she believes in Jack and goes on a quest of her own to find out the truth about Jack's initial conviction, even as the Salem Falls trial opens.

Jodi Picoult - The ​Storyteller
An ​astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult. Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who's particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses...but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he's right. What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone who's committed a truly heinous act ever redeem themselves with good behavior? Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren't the party who was wronged? And most of all - if Sage even considers his request - is it murder, or justice?

Jodi Picoult - Törékeny
Egy ​törékeny kislány, egy összetört anyai szív Egy házaspár mindennél jobban szeretne kisbabát. Nagy nehézségek után végre meg is születik Willow, aki sajnos súlyos csonttörékenységgel jön a világra. Hat éves koráig hetvenöt csontja törik el, még egy tüsszentés is életveszélybe sodorhatja. A család békéjét óhatatlanul is felborítja az állandó riadókészültség: az édesanya előző házasságából származó lánya egyre veszélyesebb módon igyekszik felhívni magára a figyelmet, a korábban boldog életet élő pár összekap minden apróságon, és az anya által elindított kártérítési per alperese pedig éppen egyetlen és legjobb barátnője. A világhírű amerikai bestsellerszerző új regénye megmutatja, milyen könnyen elszakad a szeretetből és öncsalásból, kegyes hazugságokból és elhallgatásokból szőtt háló, és a zuhanás után rájövünk, milyen törékeny az életünk.

Jodi Picoult - A ​nővérem húga
Amerika ​keleti partvidékén egy tipikus kertvárosi házban él egy tipikusnak korántsem mondható háromgyermekes család. A legidősebb testvér, Jesse már a "sötét oldalon" jár, a középső lány súlyos leukémiás, akinek életben maradásáért a két szülő ádáz küzdelmet vív; a húg, Anna pedig - a tudomány jóvoltából - eleve azért született, hogy genetikailag megfelelő donor legyen nővére számára. Amikor a beteg Kate körül forgó családi élet ellen lázadó tizenhárom éves Anna beperli szüleit, hogy önrendelkezési jogot nyerjen a saját teste fölött, minden megbolydul. A lelki örvények egyre lejjebb húzzák a jogászból lett főállású anyát, a tűzoltó-mentős-amatőr csillagász apát, a kényszerűen koraérett gyereket, sőt még az Annát képviselő fiatal ügyvédet és annak elveszettnek hitt kedvesét is. A krízishelyzetet a népszerű írónő felváltva láttatja a hét szereplő szemével, bravúrosan váltogatva az idősíkokat is. Miközben egy lebilincselő, gyors léptű regény fejezetein nevethet-zokoghat az olvasó, olyan hitelesen elevenedik meg előtte a kertvárosi otthon, a kórház, a tárgyalóterem és a tűzoltólaktanya világa, mintha dokumentumfilmet nézne. A végkifejlet pedig majdnem akkora meglepetéseket tartogat, mint egy krimi.

Jodi Picoult - Change ​of Heart
Freelance ​carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth's sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which complicates the state's execution plans. Meanwhile, death row has been the scene of some odd events since Shay's arrival—an AIDS victim goes into remission, an inmate's pet bird dies and is brought back to life, wine flows from the water faucets. The author brings other compelling elements to an already complex plot line: the priest who serves as Shay's spiritual adviser was on the jury that sentenced him; Shay's ACLU representative, Maggie Bloom, balances her professional moxie with her negative self-image and difficult relationship with her mother. Picoult moves the story along with lively debates about prisoner rights and religion, while plumbing the depths of mother-daughter relationships and examining the literal and metaphorical meanings of having heart.

Jodi Picoult - My ​Sister's Keeper
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 questioned… until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister - and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable… a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life… even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less?

Jodi Picoult - Házirend
Jacob ​Hunt nem átlagos tinédzser: Asperger-szindrómája van. Képtelen értelmezni a szociális jelzéseket, sehogy sem találja a helyét kortársai között, és még attól is retteg, ha egy másik ember szemébe kell néznie. A fiút semmi sem érdekli jobban, mint a bűntények felderítése. Mindent tud a helyszínelésről, és nemegyszer valódi bűntények helyszínén is feltűnik, frászt hozva ezzel a vermonti kisváros rendőreire. Amikor Jacob segítője, egy fiatal gyógypedagógus lány brutális gyilkosság áldozatává válik, fordul a kocka, és most a rendőrség jár Jacob nyomában. A fiú érzelemmentessége, üres tekintete és szokatlan reakciói pedig szinte felérnek egy beismerő vallomással... Hogyan küzd meg Jacob és családja a betegséget övező félreértésekkel és előítéletekkel? Hogyan tud segítő kezet nyújtani egy anya, aki maga sem találja az utat a fiához, és egy kamaszodó öcs, aki sohasem élhetett normális életet beteg testvére miatt? Jodi Picoult kíméletlenül őszinte regényéből megtudjuk, milyen nehézségekkel kell megküzdeniük azoknak a családoknak, akik autista gyermekeket nevelnek - és közben éles kritikát kapunk az amerikai igazságszolgáltatási rendszerről és a szenzációhajhász, megbélyegző kisvárosi társadalomról is. A Házirend azonban krimiként is megállja a helyét, hiszen az első oldaltól az utolsóig végig kísérti az olvasót a kérdés: bűnös-e Jacob Hunt?

Jodi Picoult - Plain ​Truth
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 city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide and, for the first time in her high profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep into the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. As she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life.

Jodi Picoult - House ​Rules
The ​astonishing new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult about a family torn apart by an accusation of murder. They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know how. Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject -- in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do...and he's usually right. But then his town is rocked by a terrible murder and, for a change, the police come to Jacob with questions. All of the hallmark behaviors of Asperger's -- not looking someone in the eye, stimulatory tics and twitches, flat affect -- can look a lot like guilt to law enforcement personnel. Suddenly, Jacob and his family, who only want to fit in, feel the spotlight shining directly on them. For his mother, Emma, it's a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it's another indication of why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And over this small family the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? Emotionally powerful from beginning to end, House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, how autism affects a family, and how our legal system works well for people who communicate a certain way -- and fails those who don't.

Jodi Picoult - Tizenkilenc ​perc
Tizenkilenc ​perc alatt lenyírhatod a ház előtt a füvet. Befestheted a hajad. Megnézheted egy hokimeccs első harmadát... Tizenkilenc perc alatt meg tudod állítani a világot, és akár le is szállhatsz róla.

Jodi Picoult - Szívtől ​szívig
E ​bravúros fordulatokkal tarkított, megindító regény egy gyilkosságért halálra ítélt férfi történetét dolgozza fel, aki azért küzd, hogy felajánlhassa szívét egykori áldozata szívbeteg kislányának. A kisvárosias New Hampshire államban e szándéka, és a személye körül kialakuló legendák alaposan felborzolják a kedélyeket. Egy talpraesett jogásznő és egy fiatal katolikus pap mégis a férfi ügye mellé áll – miközben az események hatására mindkettejük élete gyökeresen megváltozik. A népszerű írónő, a Nővérem húga és a Tizenkilenc perc szerzője, e kötetében is rendkívüli érzékenységgel foglalkozik olyan kényes témákkal, mint a szervadományozás, a halálbüntetés és a vallásos meggyőződés. A könyv több héten keresztül vezette a New York Times bestseller-listáját.

Jodi Picoult - Nineteen ​Minutes
In ​this emotionally charged novel, Jodi Picoult delves beneath the surface of a small town to explore what it means to be different in our society. In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling’s residents. Even those who were not inside the school that morning find their lives in an upheaval, including Alex Cormier. The superior court judge assigned to the Houghton case, Alex—whose daughter, Josie, witnessed the events that unfolded—must decide whether or not to step down. She’s torn between presiding over the biggest case of her career and knowing that doing so will cause an even wider chasm in her relationship with her emotionally fragile daughter. Josie, meanwhile, claims she can’t remember what happened in the last fatal minutes of Peter’s rampage. Or can she? And Peter’s parents, Lacy and Lewis Houghton, ceaselessly examine the past to see what they might have said or done to compel their son to such extremes. Nineteen Minutes also features the return of two of Jodi Picoult’s characters—defense attorney Jordan McAfee from The Pact and Salem Falls, and Patrick DuCharme, the intrepid detective introduced in Perfect Match. Rich with psychological and social insight, Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thought-provoking novel that has at its center a haunting question. Do we ever really know someone?

Jodi Picoult - Elrabolt ​az apám
A ​harmincéves Cordelia Hopkins életében látszólag minden nagyon rendben: imádott apja nagy szeretetben nevelte fel, szép kislánya, elbűvölő vőlegénye van, a munkájában - amely eltűnt személyek felkutatásából áll - rendkívül sikeres. Egy elfeledett emlékkép felbukkanása miatt azonban egy pillanat alatt mindez összeomlik: feltárul az eltitkolt múlt; kiderül, hogy semmi sem úgy igaz, ahogy ő azt addig hitte. Anyja mégsem halt meg évtizedekkel ezelőtt autóbalesetben. Apja elrabolta őt, megváltoztatta a családi nevüket, lakóhelyüket, s átírta egész addigi életüket. Jodi Picoult - éppúgy, mint előző, A nővérem húga címú, nagy sikerű könyvében - izgalmasan, krimiszerű feszültséget teremtve, mesterien gombolyítja a cselekmény fonalát az emberi viszonyok-érzések, a szerelem, a szenvedély és a szülői szeretet útvesztőiben. Vajon előkerül-e az a személy, aki azt sem tudta eddig önmagáról, hogy elveszett?

Jodi Picoult - Small ​Great Things
Ruth, ​an African-American nurse, has worked at a CT hospital for nearly twenty years as a labor and delivery nurse. So when a young couple, Turk and Brittany, come into the hospital to have their baby, it is business as usual -- until Turk calls in Ruth's white supervisor after the birth. He says, “I don't want her or anyone like her to touch my boy,” and pulls up his sleeve to reveal a Confederate flag tattoo: he and his wife are Skinheads. The hospital is used to making patient requests -- they have women who request female OBs, and others who don't want be cared for by a resident. So a note is placed on the baby's file and all African-American staff are exempted from caring from that patient -- meaning Ruth, who is the only Black nurse on the ward. The baby is taken to the nursery a day after its birth so circumcision can be done. However, Ruth's nursing colleague is called away on an emergency C section and Ruth is the only person in the nursery when the baby has cardiac/respiratory failure. After a brief hesitation – she intervenes – and yet, the baby dies. Not long after that, Ruth learns she has been charged with negligent homicide by the state. Ruth's attorney is a white woman -Kennedy McQuarrie- who would not consider herself a racist by any means. Like Ruth, she has a child. But unlike Ruth, her family has never had to think about race on a daily basis. In spite of the evidence and the request of a Skinhead barring Ruth from doing her job, Kennedy knows she won't talk about race in court, because she'd run the risk of polarizing the jury or the judge and losing the case. But to Ruth, that's not justice. As the two women form an alliance, and then an unlikely friendship, Kennedy begins to see that racism isn't just about intent, but power. That even if Skinheads like Turk did not exist, Ruth would still be fighting an uphill battle. And she begins to seek a way to make a predominantly white jury see that they are responsible for the house they did not build…but in which they live.

Jodi Picoult - Gyere ​haza
Zoe ​Baxter sikeres és elismert zeneterapeuta, hangszereivel és énekével számtalan beteg embernek segít a gyógyulásban. Számára mégiscsak egy dolog igazán fontos: az hogy számtalan sikertelen próbálkozás után végre anya lehessen. Amikor újra bekövetkezik a tragédia, férje helyett újonnan megismert barátnője, Vanessa lesz az, aki kiáll mellette, kapcsolatuk pedig őszinte szerelemmé alakul. Szembe kell nézniük azonban a kirekesztettséggel és azzal, hogy milyen mérhetetlen akadályokat kell leküzdeniük ahhoz, hogy a társadalom családként tekintsen rájuk. A szerző hetedik magyarul megjelenő regényében ismét szívhez szólóan ábrázolja e különös szerelem rezdüléseit és a legőrjítőbb fájdalmat, amit egy anya átélhet: ha le kell mondania gyermekéről.