Jodi Picoult
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English
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One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...
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English
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Trixie Stone is only a freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks she loves, dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that Jason sexually assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his power to keep his daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so devastating could happen to Trixie--and now he's not sure how to help her....
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English
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Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.
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Publisher
Klub Semeĭnogo dosuga
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Russian
Description
District Attorney Nina Frost and her husband, Caleb, face a nightmare when they discover that their young son Nathaniel has been molested, a trauma that has left him mute, terrified, and unable to reveal the identity of his attacker.
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Azbuka
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
""Schastlivai︠a︡ zhiznʹ Dzhun Nilon zakonchilasʹ, kogda byli ubity ee li︠u︡bimye muzh i dochʹ. I tolʹko rozhdenie Klėr zastavli︠a︡et Dzhun vgli︠a︡dyvatʹsi︠a︡ v budushchee. Teperʹ ee zhiznʹ sostoit iz ozhidanii︠a︡: ozhidanii︠a︡ togo chasa, kogda ona zalechit svoi dushevnye rany, ozhidanii︠a︡ spravedlivosti, ozhidanii︠a︡ chuda. Dli︠a︡ Shėi︠a︡ Borna zhiznʹ ne gotovit bolʹshe nikakikh si︠u︡rprizov....
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Series
Voice volume 7
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Taiwan shang wu yin shu guan gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2006
Language
中文
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Publisher
Kineret
Pub. Date
2014
Language
עברית
Description
Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's...
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Klub Semeĭnogo dosuga
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Russian
Description
This moving story of love and family is told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their marriage, Jane leaves Oliver, her renowned marine biologist husband, and begins a journey across the country with Rebecca in search of understanding about her troubled past.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
Español
Description
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
16) Obeshchanie
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Publisher
Klub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Russian
Description
A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it.
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Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"After a tragic incident that left her a deep scar not only in her soul, but also on her face, Sage began to shun people. She bakes bread at night and sleeps during the day. One day, she meets Josef Weber, an elderly school teacher, and becomes close to him despite the age difference. Sage feels like life has finally given her a chance to heal. However, everything changes on the day when Josef confidentially reveals his past. It turns out that this...