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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?

A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion. The only reason Anna was born was to donate her cord blood cells to her older sister. And though Anna is not sick, she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can't help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister's veins. And so she makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.

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.

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.

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.