Jodi Picoult
21) The tenth circle
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Jodi Picoult offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero. Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life, a straight-A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until,...
23) Vanishing acts
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, Delia Hopkins now has a young daughter of her own, a handsome fiancé, and her work -- tracking missing persons with her own search-and-rescue bloodhound. But as her wedding draws near, Delia experiences troubling flashbacks of a life she can't recall... until a police officer knocks on her door, revealing a secret to Delia that changes the world as she knows it -- and threatens to jeopardize...
24) Salem Falls
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him again.
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man's attempt to sell part of his property and the resulting Abenaki Indian tribe's protest that the land is a sacred burial ground spurs an investigation by ghost hunter Ross Wakeman, whose search for the truth leads to an encounter with a beautiful and mysterious woman named Lia and the discovery of a long-hidden murder haunting a small Vermont town.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 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.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen and full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
32) The tenth circle
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the powerful story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child. Laura Stone teaches at a local college and is married to Daniel, a comic book artist. Their idyllic lives are turned upside down when their daughter, Trixie, accuses her ex-boyfriend of raping her. When he later dies in an apparent suicide, the family finds itself in the center of a high profile investigation that rocks their community revealing just how far parents...
33) Over the moon
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (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
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Washington Square trade paperback edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
8 books (447 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had...
36) Plain truth
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A newborn is found dead in a serene, simple Pennsylvania Amish farming community. High-profile criminal lawyer Ellie Harrison ditches her self-indulgent city life to head to the rural farm in order to defend Katie, an unmarried 18-year-old Amish girl, who stands accused of killing her baby. Despite the surmounting evidence, Katie insists that she was never pregnant. While trying to learn her client's secrets, Ellie is forced to live with the Amish...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (1 hr., 25 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures, " deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.