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Charlotte OKeefes daughter Willow is born with a very severe form of brittle bone disease. Willow will have hundreds of breaks over the course of a lifetime. After years of caring for Willow, the family is close to financial ruin, so Charlotte files a wrongful birth suit against her doctor who is also her best friend for the monetary payouts which might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. To go through with the case she has to say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if shed known about the disability in advance. How far would you go to take care of someone you love? And would you admit to yourself that you might not actually be lying? Reviews''Jodi Picoult is not one to shy away from fictional controversy; in fact, the more tangled and messy a moral dilemma appears, the better she likes it. Daily Mail ''Impossible to put down and stayed in my mind long after I had finished'' Observer ''Superb, many-stranded, and grimly topical'' The Times ''Picoult has an uncanny knack of dreaming up moral dilemmas that you cannot ignore: you must know the resolution . . . A challenging and clever read'' Sunday Express ''Dark, serious books that explore family relationships and scary moral dilemmas involving religion, crime and politics'' Heat

Now a major film. Sara Fitzgerald''s daughter Kate is just two years old when she is diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia. Reeling with the helpless shock of it, Sara knows she will do anything -- whatever it takes - to save her child. Then the tests results come back time and again to show that no one in their family is a match for Kate. If they are to find a donor for the crucial bone marrow transplant she needs, there is only one option: creating another baby, specifically designed to save her sister. For Sara, it seems the ideal solution. Not only does Kate live, but she gets a beautiful new daughter, Anna, too. Until the moment Anna hands Sara the papers that will rock her whole world. Because, aged thirteen, Anna has decided that she doesn''t want to help Kate live any more. She is suing her parents for the rights to her own body.

Delia Hopkins verbrachte eine glückliche Kindheit, daran bestand bisher nie ein Zweifel. Doch als eines Tages die Polizei ein schreckliches Geheimnis über ihre Familie offenbart, holt eine Vergangenheit Delia ein, von der sie nicht einmal wusste, dass es sie gab ...01Jodi Picoult, geb. 1967 auf Long Island, veröffentlichte 1992 ihren ersten Roman, der sofort zu einem großen Erfolg wurde. 2003 wurde sie mit dem New England Book Award ausgezeichnet. Sie lebt zusammen mit ihrem Mann und drei Kindern in Hanover, New Hampshire. Mit dem Roman 'Beim Leben meiner Schwester', der wochenlang auf den Bestsellerlisten stand, gelang ihr der Durchbruch in den USA. Sie gehört inzwischen zu den erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Erzählerinnen weltweit und wurde 2007 in England zur Autorin des Jahres gewählt.01Ulrike Wasel, geboren 1955, arbeitet als Übersetzerin angloamerikanischer Literatur.01Klaus Timmermann, geboren 1955, arbeitet als Übersetzer angloamerikanischer Literatur in Düsseldorf.

Jodi PicoultNew York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. 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 challenged...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? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she''s about to get her heart''s desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then - to Zoe''s surprise - blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of children again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that she and her husband never used. But Max, having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle, has found redemption in an evangelical church, and Zoe needs his permission to take his unborn child ..."Sing you home" is accompanied by a soundtrack of original songs created for the novel by Jodi Picoult and Ellen Wilber.

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling novel about a music therapist, her unexpected romance, and her struggle over legal rights to her unborn child.

When Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, her life starts to fall apart. And when her daughter, Faith, begins to confide in an imaginary friend, Mariah's own brush with insanity starts to take on a darker meaning.Then Faith appears to start performing miracles, and all at once the situation is spiralling beyond Mariah's control. Is Faith truly seeing God? Or is she just a troubled young girl seeking refuge from her parents' divorce?When it comes to matters of faith, it's hard to know who to believe . . .

When music therapist Zoe Baxter's latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband Max decides he can't handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman. While Zoe is finding happiness with Vanessa, Max falls off the wagon and is helped by a pastor from his brother's evangelical church. Vanessa and Zoe wed in Massachusetts, and Vanessa offers to carry one of the fertilized embryos Zoe and Max stored. Excited by the prospect of being a mother, Zoe goes to Max to get him to release the embryos to her and is shocked when he instead sues her for custody of them, backed by his church. Told from the perspectives of all three major characters, Picoult's gripping novel explores all sides of the hot-button issue and offers a CD of folk songs that reflect Zoe's feelings throughout the novel

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise. Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across America to the sanctuary of the New England apple orchard where Jane's brother Joley works. Oliver, used to tracking male humpback whales across vast oceans, now has the task of tracking his wife across a continent. To do so he must learn to see the world - and even himself - through her eyes...

June's first husband was killed in a car crash. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years on they are a happy family, June pregnant with their own child. But now June's second daughter is dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne, an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty for the first time in 69 years in New Hampshire. Shay is going to die, and he is looking for redemption. He wants to give June's daughter his heart ...

Zoe Baxter wunscht sich nichts sehnlicher als ein Kind. Sie und ihr Mann Max tun alles, um endlich eine Familie zu grunden. Vergeblich. Als ihre Ehe zerbricht, findet Zoe Trost in der Musik und in einer neuen Liebe. Mit der Psychologin Vanessa will sie noch einmal von vorne beginnen. Sie traumt von einem gemeinsamen Kind mit ihr. Doch Max ist fest entschlossen, dieses Familiengluck zu verhindern. Er gerat in die Fange einer radikalen christlichen Gemeinde, die seit Jahren gegen Homosexualitat kampft ...

Jenna Metcalf was with her mother the night she disappeared in tragic and mysterious circumstances, but she remembers nothing.Over ten years have passed, and still Jenna reads and rereads her mother''s journals, hoping to find some clue hidden there, in the meticulous recording of her scientific research with elephants.Desperate for answers, Jenna uses all her savings to recruit the aid of a private detective - and a psychic.Jenna knows her mother loved her. She knows she would not leave her. And she will not rest until she finds out what happened that night.In her most gripping mystery since House Rules, Jodi Picoult brings us a powerful story of a young girl''s determination to uncover the truth, however shocking and life-changing it might be.