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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. 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 been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life? Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, Handle with Care brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden, a desperate will to keep their ties from breaking, and, ultimately, a powerful capacity for love. Written with the grace and wisdom she's become famous for, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult offers us an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it.

When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until, that is, she is date raped ...and Daniel finds himself struggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.

One of America's most powerful and thought-provoking novelists, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult brilliantly examines belief, miracles, and the complex core of family. When the marriage of Mariah White and her cheating husband, Colin, turns ugly and disintegrates, their seven-year-old daughter, Faith, is there to witness it all. In the aftermath of a rapid divorce, Mariah falls into a deep depression -- and suddenly Faith, a child with no religious background whatsoever, hears divine voices, starts reciting biblical passages, and develops stigmata. And when the miraculous healings begin, mother and daughter are thrust into the volatile center of controversy and into the heat of a custody battle -- trapped in a mad media circus that threatens what little stability the family has left.

Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the towns residents by blood and honour. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that hes killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.

Manželé Goldovi a Harteovi žijí v sousedních domech a jsou těmi nejlepšími přáteli. Mají skoro stejně staré děti: Chris a Emily spolu vyrůstají od nejútlejšího dětství a velmi k sobě přilnou. Jejich důvěrné kamarádství přeroste na střední škole v milenecký vztah. Najednou však přijde šok – rodiče jsou přivoláni o půlnoci do nemocnice, kam sanitka přivezla Chrise a Emily – Emily s prostřelenou hlavou, Chrise s menší tržnou ranou. Proč Chris přinesl na jejich schůzku revolver? Šlo o zamýšlenou dvojitou sebevraždu? Nebo snad o vraždu? Co se mezi Chrisem a Emily stalo?

Zaklatott férfi ront be Mississippi állam abortuszklinikájára. Lövöldözni kezd, majd túszul ejti a túlélőket. Hugh McElroy túsztárgyaló a helyszínre siet. A telefonjára érkező üzenetekből jön rá, hogy tizenöt éves lánya, Wren is a klinikán tartózkodik. De vajon hogy reagálnak a túszok? Egy nővér úrrá lesz saját pánikrohamán, és segít egy sebesült nőn. Egy orvos a hite miatt gyakorolja hivatását... Most éppen ezt a hitet teszi próbára az élet. Egy magzatvédő aktivista páciensnek álcázva tapasztalja meg, milyen annak a gyűlöletnek a kereszttüzében lenni, amit ő is szított. De vajon mi a túszejtő valódi célja? A lebilincselő történet visszafelé halad az időben, így az emberi sorsok szépen lassan bontakoznak ki. Jodi Picoult korunk egyik legvakmerőbb írója. Most éppen azt boncolgatja, hogyan lehet egyszerre figyelembe venni a várandós nő és a még meg nem született gyermeke jogait. Az Életszikra beszélgetésre, vitára inspirál... és talán megértésre sarkall.