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September 19, 2018
Today's Featured Title and Contest
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Preview Contest by Thursday, September 20th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult, which releases on October 2nd. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest:
A SPARK OF LIGHT by Jodi Picoult
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center --- a women’s reproductive health services clinic --- its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.
After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages, he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his 15-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.
But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.
Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.
Jodi Picoult --- one of the most fearless writers of our time --- tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A SPARK OF LIGHT is a story that will inspire debate, conversation…and, hopefully, understanding.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to visit Jodi Picoult's website.
- Connect with Jodi Picoult on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.
Click here to enter the contest
by 11:59am ET on Thursday, September 20th.
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