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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
December 3, 2014 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book to consider as a holiday gift selection. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Thursday, December 4th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LEAVING TIME by Jodi Picoult, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: LEAVING TIME by Jodi Picoult
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Throughout her blockbuster career, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that “not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us” (The Boston Globe). Now, in her highly anticipated new novel, she has delivered her most affecting work yet --- a book unlike anything she’s written before.
For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.
Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest: Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons, only to later doubt her gifts, and Virgil Stanhope, the jaded private detective who’d originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers.
As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish. A deeply moving, gripping and intelligent page-turner, LEAVING TIME is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.
-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to read Jodi Picoult's bio.
-Connect with Jodi Picoult on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
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Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Thursday, December 4th. |
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