Jodi Picoult Livres

A treize ans, Anna a déjà subi de nombreuses interventions et transfusions afin que sa sœur aînée Kate puisse combattre la leucémie qui la ronge depuis l'enfance. Anna sait qu'elle a été conçue pour être génétiquement compatible avec Kate et qu'elle est son seul espoir. Cependant, lorsqu'on lui demande de faire don d'un rein, l'adolescente refuse. Elle veut disposer librement de son corps et ira jusqu'au bout pour se faire entendre... S'inspirant d'un fait réel sur une " enfant-médicament ", voici un récit choral subtil et profondément humain.

Jenna avait trois ans quand a inexplicablement disparu sa mère Alice, scientifique et grande voyageuse, spécialiste des éléphants et de leurs rituels de deuil. Dix années ont passé, la jeune fille refuse de croire qu'elle ait pu être tout simplement abandonnée. Alors elle rouvre le dossier, déchiffre le journal de bord que tenait sa mère, et recrute deux acolytes pour l'aider dans sa quête : Serenity, voyante extralucide qui se prétend en contact avec l'au-delà ; et Virgil, l'inspecteur passablement alcoolique qui avait suivi - et enterré - l'affaire à l'époque. Habilement construit et très documenté, La Tristesse des éléphants est un page-turner subtil sur l'amour filial, l'amitié et la perte. Savant dosage de mystery, de romance et de surnaturel, ce nouveau roman de Jodi Picoult captive, émeut et surprend jusqu'à son finale aussi haletant qu'inattendu.

A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned - they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against bringing race into a courtroom. As the two come to develop a truer understanding of each other's lives, they begin to doubt the beliefs they each hold most dear.

Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult combines topical moral issues and emotional human drama with the page-turning compulsion of a thriller.

1966. Tucsa, Oklahoma. Deux bandes rivales, les Socs - la jeunesse dorée de la ville - et les Greasers - sortes de blousons noirs aux cheveux gominés -, se livrent une guerre sans merci. Ponyboy Curtis, quatorze ans, est un Greaser. Il traîne dans les rues avec ses copains qui, comme lui, sont des loubards. Mais le meurtre d'un Soc bouleverse brutalement sa vie insouciante, le mettant hors la loi. Au fil d'événements dramatiques, le jeune garçon va devenir adulte et faire l'apprentissage de l'amour et de la mort.

Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humour, extraordinarily organised, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger's. His mother expects other people not to understand. But she doesn't expect Jacob to be charged with murder.

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case is the states best witness but she cant remember what happened in front of her own eyes. Or can she?

"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.