Jodi Picoult, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-688-16825-4
Fans of Picoult's fluent and absorbing storytelling will welcome her new novel, which, like Harvesting the Heart, explores family dynamics and the intricacies of motherhood, and concludes, as did The Pact, with tense courtroom drama. In the small...
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Jodi Picoult, Author Faber & Faber $22.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-571-12927-0
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
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Jodi Picoult, Author Viking Books $23 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-85099-0
Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O'Toole has been left with painful doubts...
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Jodi Picoult, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14040-2
This politically correct Hollywood romance leaves no plotting stone unturned. For her discovery of an ancient human relic, glamorous UCLA anthropologist Cassie Barrett is rocketed to the prominence of a '90s-style Margaret Mead. As if that's not...
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Jodi Picoult, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14160-7
What could have been a competent, topical novel about a mercy killing becomes, in Picoult's (following Picture Perfect, 1995) hands, an inspired meditation on love. The setting is Wheelock, Mass., a slightly eccentric town where most of the...
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Jodi Picoult. Atria, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0274-9
Picoult returns with two provocative questions: can a human join a wolf pack, and who has the right to make end-of-life decisions? Luke Warren, a vital free spirit, has devoted himself to understanding wolf behavior, to the point of having once...
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Jodi Picoult. Atria, $28 (462p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0276-3
Picoult (Change of Heart) reconfigures themes from her other bestsellers for her uneven new morality tale. Twenty-five-year-old reclusive baker Sage Singer befriends the elderly Josef Weber, who shares something shocking from his past and asks her...
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Jodi Picoult. Ballantine, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-54492-6
Picoult’s (The Storyteller) novel explores grief, memory, and motherhood through the unlikely lens of elephant behavior. Jenna Metcalf was three years old when her mother, Alice, disappeared from the elephant sanctuary where she worked as a...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Pocket $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1872-0
One plot element—a case of child molestation involving a Catholic priest—in Picoult's latest novel (after Salem Falls) now seems eerily prescient, but that's only part of the saga she weaves, which is primarily an indictment of...
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Jodi Picoult. Ballantine, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-345-54495-7
Bestselling author Picoult’s latest page-turner is inspired by a Flint, Mich., event in which a white supremacist father refused to allow an experienced African-American labor and delivery nurse to touch his newborn. In Picoult’s story, a medical...
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Jodi Picoult. Ballantine, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-54498-8
Drama abounds in Picoult’s latest issue-driven novel (following Small Great Things) in which a hostage crisis in a women’s health center/abortion clinic provides a look at a volatile subject. George Goddard, a lone gunman seeking revenge for his...
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Jodi Picoult. Ballantine, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-984-81835-5
Picoult (A Spark of Life) explores age-old questions about a possible parallel universe in this shrewd tale. The life of narrator Dawn McDowell, a specialist in the ancient Egyptian coffin text the Book of Two Ways, has taken two paths, indicated by
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Jodi Picoult. Ballantine, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-984818-41-6
Picoult’s beguiling page-turner revisits the premise of two alternate worlds, as explored in 2020’s The Book of Two Ways, this time with the Covid-19 pandemic as a backdrop. It’s March 13, 2020, in New York City, the day after Broadway theaters shut
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Jodi Picoult, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-688-15812-5
Teenage suicide is the provocative topic that Picoult plumbs, with mixed results, in her fifth novel. Popular high-school swimming star Chris Harte and talented artist Em Gold bonded as infants; their parents have been next-door neighbors and best...
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Picoult's new novel (following the acclaimed Plain Truth) is a story about rape and reputation, loosely based on The Crucible. Jack St. Bride comes to Salem Falls, N.H., after his release from prison. The former teacher and soccer coach wants...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Atria $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5450-6
It is August in Comtosook, Vt., yet suddenly the temperature fluctuates wildly, rose petals mysteriously fall like snow, patches of land are completely frozen and roiling garter snakes cover the ground. Suspense and the supernatural are artfully...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Atria $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5452-0
The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance
, etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Atria $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5454-4
Delia Hopkins was six years old when her father allowed her to be his assistant in the amateur magic act he performed at the local senior center's annual Christmas pageant. "I learned a lot that night," recalls Delia, who is now 32, at...
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Each of the five narrators in this excellent audiobook speaks intimately to the listener, capitalizing on the emotional complexity of Picoult's heart-wrenching tale. Delia Hopkins, read with simple grace by Gibson, immediately seizes the...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Atria $26 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7434-9672-8
Bestseller Picoult (My Sister's Keeper
) takes on another contemporary hot-button issue in her brilliantly told new thriller, about a high school shooting. Peter Houghton, an alienated teen who has been bullied for years by the popular crowd,...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Atria $26.95 (447p) ISBN 978-0-7434-9674-2
Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate’s desire to be an organ donor. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Atria $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9641-0
Perennial bestseller Picoult (Change of Heart
) delivers another engrossing family drama, spiced with her trademark blend of medicine, law and love. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe's daughter, Willow, was born with brittle bone disease, a...
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Jodi Picoult, Author . Atria $28 (532p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9643-4
Perennial bestseller Picoult (Handle with Care
) has a rough time in this Picoult-esque blend of medical and courtroom drama that lacks her usual storytelling finesse. Eighteen-year old Jacob Hunt has Asperger's syndrome, and his devoted single
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Jodi Picoult, Author Atria Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-77612-1
Though it begins as the quietly electrifying story of an unmarried Amish teenager who gives birth to a baby she is accused of then smothering, Picoult's latest (after Keeping Faith) settles into an ordinary trial epic, albeit one centered...
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Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28 (476p) ISBN 978-1-4391-0272-5
Picoult's overstuffed latest (after House Rules) is stretched just to the breaking point. Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. After their divorce, Max moves in with his
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Jodi Picoult, read by a full cast, Recorded Books, unabridged, 17 CDs, 20 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-1-4407-8824-6
Having clear house rules has proven to be the most effective way for single mother Emma Hunt to raise her two sons: brilliant 18-year-old Jacob, who has Asperger’s syndrome, and 15-year-old Theo. Jacob’s obsession with criminal forensics has brought
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Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer, illus. by Yvonne Gilbert and Scott M. Fischer. Simon Pulse/Bestler, $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4516-3575-1
Prolific and bestselling author Picoult teams up with her teenage daughter to pen a clever YA romance about the magical relationship between a loner and her fictional “Prince Charming.” Imagine 15-year-old Delilah McPhee’s surprise when she starts...
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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Ballantine, $29.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1838-6
Picoult (Wish You Were Here) joins forces with novelist and transgender activist Boylan (Long Black Veil) for a spellbinding yarn involving a teen’s trial for murder. Beekeeper Olivia McAfee fled her abusive husband in Boston for New Hampshire with...
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Jodi Picoult, Author, Dustin Weaver, Illustrator . Atria $26 (389p) ISBN 978-0-7434-9670-4
Some of Picoult's best storytelling distinguishes her twisting, metaphor-rich 13th novel (after Vanishing Acts
) about parental vigilance gone haywire, inner demons and the emotional risks of relationships. Comic book artist Daniel Stone is like
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Jodi Picoult, Author, Nicole Poole, Narrated by, Stafford Clark-Price, Narrated by , read by a full cast. Random House Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4281-9817-3
A cast of four narrators (plus one extra for the epilogue) read Picoult's latest melodramatic take on an interesting social dilemma. Death-row inmate Shay Bourne, convicted of murdering a little girl and her cop stepfather, wants to donate his...
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Jodi Picoult, Author, Carol Monda, Narrated by Recorded Books $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-7172-1
Picault's newest bestseller moves to a deeper level of drama in the audiobook version of this tale of heartbreak and revenge. When Trixie Stone tells her father she's been raped by a former boyfriend, her family's lives begin to unravel. Daniel...
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Jodi Picoult. Ballantine, $30 (544p) ISBN 978-0-593-49721-0
Picoult (Wish You Were Here) offers a stimulating if muddled parallel narrative of two women writers, each of whose work is credited to a man. In 1582, poet Emilia Bassano becomes consort to Lord Hunsdon, Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Chamberlain. At the...
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