Jodi Picoult

"Engrossing... The Pact is compelling reading."--PeopleIn this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parent's worst fear: We think we know our children . . . but do we ever really know them at all? The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their children--and it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. But the bonds of family, friendship, and passion--which had seemed so indestructible--suddenly threaten to unravel in the wake of unimaginable tragedy. When midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the truth. Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet--a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris describes. This extraordinary, poignant novel paints an indelible portrait of two families in anguish . . . and creates an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama as Chris is put on trial for murder.

Strannyj vydalsja avgust dlja zhitelej malenkogo severoamerikanskogo gorodka: to i delo s neba padajut belye lepestki, temperatura letom vnezapno ponizhaetsja na desjatok gradusov, v polden treskajutsja farforovye tarelki, v polnoch rastsvetajut rozy, a v zabroshennom dome na uchastke, gde khotjat postroit novyj torgovyj tsentr, vspykhivajut trevozhnye ogni. Govorjat, eto prodelki prizraka, kotoryj khozjajnichaet na etoj zemle i nameren pomeshat stroitelstvu, poskolku zdes nakhodjatsja starye indejskie zakhoronenija. I esli prizrak - eto chto-to efemernoe, to pomekhi sovershenno realnye. Zastrojschik obraschaetsja s zhaloboj v politsiju, i mestnomu detektivu nichego ne ostaetsja, kak otlozhit vazhnye dela i zanjatsja etoj pustjachnoj problemoj. No po mere rassledovanija stanovitsja jasno, chto v etom dome, na etom uchastke zemli, v etom tikhom bezvestnom gorodke i vpravdu proiskhodit nechto neverojatnoe i nepostizhimoe, a vse niti vedut k zhestokomu prestupleniju, sovershennomu semdesjat let nazad...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes "a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit" (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six) Look for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, available August 20 Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Gal pagos--days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It's all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes. Almost immediately, Diana's dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they'd booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father's suspicion of outsiders. In the Gal pagos Islands, where Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself--and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes "a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit" (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six) Look for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, available August 20 Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She's not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Gal pagos--days before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It's all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes. Almost immediately, Diana's dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel they'd booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father's suspicion of outsiders. In the Gal pagos Islands, where Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself--and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a "powerful" (The Washington Post) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. Look for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, now available NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula, in which she helps ease the transition between life and death for her clients. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now, when it seems that fate is offering her second chances, she is not as sure of the choice she once made. After the crash landing, the airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious destination is to fly home, but she could take another path: return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history, and maybe even complete her research on The Book of Two Ways--the first known map of the afterlife. As the story unfolds, Dawn's two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she's never truly asked: What does a life well lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices . . . or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are right now?

Who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now? Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully. But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago - when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved. Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to - but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain. As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she's never truly asked: What does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us? Two possible futures. One impossible choice.

'A writer the world should be reading right now.' IndependentWho would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now? Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully. But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago - when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved. Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to - but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain. As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she's never truly asked: What does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us? Two possible futures. One impossible choice.----------------------------------------------------------------'It is hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.' Financial Times'Her intelligent, meticulously researched novels explore ethical dilemmas through heartrending, headline-grabbing scenarios.' The Sunday Times'A matchless talent for hitting emotional notes.' Irish TimesMAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now.

Det är en varm höstdag, som så många andra, och allt är som vanligt på kvinnokliniken Centret. Plötsligt bryts det sena förmiddagslugnet av en desperat och beväpnad man som stormar in och öppnar eld. Snart har situationen utvecklats till ett gisslandrama. Hugh McElroy, en gisslanförhandlare, rusar till platsen, spärrar av området och börja planera för hur han bäst tar kontakt med förövaren. När hans mobil vibrerar kastar han ett öga på skärmen och fylls med en plötslig fasa - hans femtonåriga dotter Wren befinner sig inne i kliniken. Det är en salig blandning människor som nu är fast innanför dörrarna. En sjuksköterska som måste övervinna sin egen panik för att rädda en skadad kvinna. En doktor som utför arbetet inte trots, men på grund av sin tro. En anti-abortdemonstrant, förklädd som patient, som nu kommit ansikte mot ansikte med ytterligheten av det raseri hon själv känt. En ung kvinna som kommit in för att avsluta sin graviditet, och den frenetiske gärningsmannen som kräver att bli hörd. En enda gnista är en gripande och högst aktuell roman. Med stor skicklighet tar Jodi Picoult sig an en av vår tids största kontroverser, och granskar de stora frågorna med balans och empati. Resultatet blir en högst mänsklig undersökning av några av de mest grundläggande, och svårdefinierbara, av det moderna samhällets stöttepelare: rätten till sin egen kropp och rätten till liv. JODI PICOULT är, med osannolika 14 miljoner sålda böcker, en av USA:s absolut bäst säljande författare. Hon har bland annat skrivit Allt för min syster en roman som gripit läsare över hela världen, sålt 3 miljoner exemplar bara i USA och som också filmatiserats med Cameron Diaz i en av huvudrollerna." En av vårens mest efterlängtade romaner!" Annette Juhlin"Picoult är en favoritförfattare. Jag gillar hur hon alltid vrider och vänder på etiska frågeställningar. Ingenting är någonsin enkelt i hennes berättelser, inget är tvärsäkert. Hon har en förmåga att låta alla röster höras och hon är en god lyssnare. Hennes researcharbete är imponerande." Fru E:s böcker"Viktig att läsa p.g.a. ämnet och för att Jodi Picoult helt enkelt är både en fantastisk författare men också en mästare på att skildra etiska dilemman och vår samtid. Hennes research är otrolig och hon får med alla tänkbara olika perspektiv och människor. Det är välskrivet, tänkvärt och personporträtten är som alltid suveräna." Bokhyllan i skuggan"Picoult skriver om brännande ämnen. Boken är väldigt bra, karaktärerna är välskrivna och intressanta." Gabriella läser"Wow, säger jag bara. Vilken bok. Den väcker så mycket känslor, frågor, empati och nyfikenhet. I slutet satt jag bara med gapande mun och kunde inte sluta läsa. Det här är en perfekt bokklubbsbok." Bokida

Jodi Picoult's new bestseller explores life, death, and misssed opportunities.

Order Jodi Picoult's stunning new novel about life, death, and missed opportunities. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A writer the world should be reading right now.' IndependentWho would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now? Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully. But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago - when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved. Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to - but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain. As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she's never truly asked: what does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us? Two possible futures. One impossible choice. ----------------------------------------------------------------'It is hard to exaggerate how well Picoult writes.' Financial Times 'A matchless talent for hitting emotional notes.' Irish Times'A wise, cerebral, propulsive adventure . . . eruditely spans the worlds of Egyptology, university physics and end-of-life care, while never losing sight of its high-stakes human story . . . a captivatingly immersive, multilayered, painstakingly researched and impressively realised exploration of deeply human geographies.' The Sunday Times'This complex, time-shifting romance combines moral hazard with Wuthering Heights echoes and degree-level Egyptology. And there aren't many books you can say that about.' Daily Mail MAD HONEY, the stunning and compelling Sunday Times bestseller by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan is available now.

Dawn thinks she knows everything there is to know about dying. As a death doula she helps her clients fix what is left undone so they can peacefully make the final transition. But when her plane plummets from the sky and she thinks she is experiencing the last moments of her life, she is shocked to find that she isn't thinking of her husband or teenage daughter - but of a road she strayed from 15 years earlier, when she turned her back on her PhD studies. Against all odds, Dawn survives, and the airline gives her a free ticket to wherever she needs to get to. in alternating chapters, we see possible choices: Land - returning to her husband, a quantum physicist who studies the possibilities of parallel universes, she is faced with a test to her marriage and a daughter who is struggling with self-image issues. And Water: returning to her studies and the archaeological site she worked on 15 years earlier, where the man she abandoned is about to make the discovery of a lifetime. But time may not be as straightforward as we think. As Dawn explores her possible futures, she is finding out what a well-lived life means, what we leave behind of ourselves when we leave the earth, and who she might have been...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a "powerful" (The Washington Post) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. Look for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, now available NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula, in which she helps ease the transition between life and death for her clients. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened. And now, when it seems that fate is offering her second chances, she is not as sure of the choice she once made. After the crash landing, the airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious destination is to fly home, but she could take another path: return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history, and maybe even complete her research on The Book of Two Ways--the first known map of the afterlife. As the story unfolds, Dawn's two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she's never truly asked: What does a life well lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices . . . or do our choices make us? And who would you be if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are right now?

Det är en varm höstdag, som så många andra, och allt är som vanligt på kvinnokliniken Centret. Plötsligt bryts det sena förmiddagslugnet av en desperat och beväpnad man som stormar in och öppnar eld. Snart har situationen utvecklats till ett gisslandrama. Hugh McElroy, en gisslanförhandlare, rusar till platsen, spärrar av området och börja planera för hur han bäst tar kontakt med förövaren. När hans mobil vibrerar kastar han ett öga på skärmen och fylls med en plötslig fasa - hans femtonåriga dotter Wren befinner sig inne i kliniken. Det är en salig blandning människor som nu är fast innanför dörrarna. En sjuksköterska som måste övervinna sin egen panik för att rädda en skadad kvinna. En doktor som utför arbetet inte trots, men på grund av sin tro. En anti-abortdemonstrant, förklädd som patient, som nu kommit ansikte mot ansikte med ytterligheten av det raseri hon själv känt. En ung kvinna som kommit in för att avsluta sin graviditet, och den frenetiske gärningsmannen som kräver att bli hörd. En enda gnista är en gripande och högst aktuell roman. Med stor skicklighet tar Jodi Picoult sig an en av vår tids största kontroverser, och granskar de stora frågorna med balans och empati. Resultatet blir en högst mänsklig undersökning av några av de mest grundläggande, och svårdefinierbara, av det moderna samhällets stöttepelare: rätten till sin egen kropp och rätten till liv. Jodi Picoult är, med osannolika 14 miljoner sålda böcker, en av USA:s absolut bäst säljande författare. Hon har bland annat skrivit Allt för min syster en roman som gripit läsare över hela världen, sålt 3 miljoner exemplar bara i USA och som också filmatiserats med Cameron Diaz i en av huvudrollerna. "Stark, spännande & välskriven!" Jennies boklista"Jodi Picoult är som alltid skicklig på att tackla ett svårt ämne. ... Den är välskriven, hemsk, och väldigt intressant. Och man vill ju bara diskutera vidare i en bokcirkel." I hyllan"En av vårens mest efterlängtade romaner!" Just nu, just här"Picoult är en favoritförfattare. Jag gillar hur hon alltid vrider och vänder på etiska frågeställningar. Ingenting är någonsin enkelt i hennes berättelser, inget är tvärsäkert. Hon har en förmåga att låta alla röster höras och hon är en god lyssnare. Hennes researcharbete är imponerande." Fru E:s böcker"Det är en stark bok med ett ännu starkare ämne och många tankar väcks under läsandets gång men den yttersta frågan är Vad är viktigast? Kvinnans rätt till valfrihet eller kampen för livet i hennes mage?" Anettes bokval"Viktig att läsa p.g.a. ämnet och för att Jodi Picoult helt enkelt är både en fantastisk författare men också en mästare på att skildra etiska dilemman och vår samtid. Hennes research är otrolig och hon får med alla tänkbara olika perspektiv och människor. Det är välskrivet, tänkvärt och personporträtten är som alltid suveräna." Bokhyllan i skuggan"Det är en stark bok som väcker många tankar kring rätten till sin egen kropp. ... Jag tycker om boken, den är spännande, intressant och tankeväckande. ... En bra historia som håller mig i sitt grepp till sista sidan!" Lollos bokhörna

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. "Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate."--The Washington PostLook for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, available now 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. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day. One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding. Look in the back of the book for reader's discussion questions and a conversation with Jodi Picoult.

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A writer the world needs to be reading right now' The Independent'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.' Red'Incredibly compelling and page turning' Dolly Alderton'A very special novel about a very difficult subject.' Grazia'Her intelligent, meticulously researched novels explore ethical dilemmas through heartrending, headline-grabbing scenarios' The Sunday TimesA lone gunman takes the women and doctors at a controversial abortion clinic hostage. Nobody has ended up there by choice. As the tense negotiation for their release unfolds, hour by crucial hour, back in time through the day that brought the hostages and their captor to this moment, every certainty is questioned, every judgement thrown into sharp relief. Because matters of life and death look very different when you, or the ones you love, are staring down the barrel of a gun . . . Powerful, thought-provoking and deeply involving, Jodi Picoult's new novel is told in reverse, propelling the reader through intertwining characters and uncovering motives in this unflinching exploration of what makes a life. Read what everyone's saying about A SPARK OF LIGHT:Jodi Picoult is a master of words. ????? I couldn't put this book down.????? I don't know how I can wait another year for the her next book.????? Loved every minute of it. ????? I shall be going back to read it again!! ?????