Jodi Picoult
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From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Small Great Things and Mad Honey, a novel exploring the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family.
Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child...
Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child...
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Zwei Herzen zwischen Magie und Realität... "Hilf mir!" Delilah kann es kaum fassen, als sie diese Nachricht in ihrem Lieblingsbuch findet. Oliver, der umwerfend gut aussehende Held der Geschichte, hat diese Worte extra für sie in den Felsen geritzt. Zuerst hält sie sich für verrückt, doch schnell stellen Delilah und Oliver fest, dass sie über die Grenzen der Buchseiten hinweg miteinander sprechen können. Und damit nicht genug: Oliver vertraut...
4) Zerbrechlich
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Zerbrechlich
gelesen von Nicole Engeln, Dana Geissler, Marie Bierstedt, u.v.a
Charlotte O'Keefe liebt ihr Kind abgöttisch und will nur eins: es beschützen. Denn Willow ist krank; beim kleinsten Stoß brechen ihre Knochen.
Doch auch ihr Herz kann brechen. Genau das scheint Charlotte zu vergessen, als sie vor Gericht das Geld für die richtige Behandlung erkämpfen will. Sie verklagt ihre Frauenärztin. Die Krankheit hätte schon zu Beginn der...
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Jacob Hunt hasst die Farbe Orange. Und er hasst es, wenn sein gewohnter Tagesablauf gestört wird. Routinen sind für ihn lebensichtig, denn er leidet unter dem Asperger-Syndrom, einer autistischen Störung. Deshalb kocht Emma, seine Mutter, montags nur grüne Speisen und dienstags rote. Und längst hat sie Jacobs Besessenheit für Kriminaltechnik akzeptiert. Doch dann wird seine Erzieherin Jess erschlagen aufgefunden, und Jacob wird des Mordes an...
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Endlich können sie zusammen sein: Die 16-jährige Delilah und Oliver - ein Prinz, der buchstäblich einem Märchen entsprungen ist. Damit Oliver jedoch in der realen Welt bei Delilah sein kann, muss er den Platz mit einem normalen Jungen tauschen, der seine Rolle im Buch übernimmt. Doch das Buch wehrt sich gegen diesen heftigen Eingriff und fordert seine eigentliche Geschichte zurück. Widerwillig muss Oliver zurückkehren und die Buchwelt in Ordnung...
7) House rules
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Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
9) Lone wolf
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"When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider"--Provided by publisher.
10) Change of heart
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Shay Bourne, a prisoner on death row in New Hampshire, has one last request: to donate his heart, post-execution, to the sister of his victim who needs a transplant. Bourne says it's the only way he can redeem himself. Shay's spiritual advisor, Fr. Michael Wright, knows redemption has nothing to do with organ donation and plans to convince Bourne; but miracles, witnessed by inmates and prison guards alike, make the unkempt, bipolar, convicted murderer...
11) The tenth circle
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When the ghost of his murdered fourteen-year-old daughter identifies her boyfriend as her killer, an overprotective father with a secret past decides to take the law into his own hands, a choice that takes him into the wilds of the Alaskan bush.
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Zoe Baxter finds unexpected love with a younger woman after she and her husband divorce, and when the couple wants to use the embryos Zoe and her ex-husband had frozen when they were trying to get pregnant, it sparks a legal battle over the rights of gay couples and whether an embryo is considered a life or a piece of property.
13) Vanishing acts
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Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
14) Mercy
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Two cousins are driven to extremes by the power of love, as one helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide and the other becomes involved in a passionate affair with his wife's new assistant.
15) Handle with care
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Struggling to care for their daughter Willow, who was born with brittle bone disease, Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe add additional strain to their overburdened family life when they file a lawsuit against Charlotte's obstetrician.
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Jane Jones and her daughter, Rebecca, travel across the country after a devastating fight between Jane and her husband, Oliver, and, in the course of their journey, Jane and Rebecca both find a sense of hope and fulfillment while Oliver begins to see the world through his wife's eyes as he sets out in search of his family.