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A soul-stirring new musical conceived by New York Times best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald, Breathe places listeners inside the walls of five homes during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Filled with songs and vignettes that examine new relationships, rekindling flames, parenting, racial reckoning, and grief during a pandemic, this incredibly timely world premiere—written and produced online in 2020 in real-time as events unfolded—reflects the very topics that weighed on the hearts and minds of Americans.

The new audiobook from number one best-selling author Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility. When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.

The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who barricade the building every day, the service it offers is no different from legalised murder. Now life and death decisions are being made horrifyingly real: a lone protester with a gun has taken the staff, patients and visitors hostage.

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13 she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is.

What do you do when the person who holds you together is the one who tears you apart? Best-selling phenomenon Picoult's novel centres on domestic abuse. A woman is found in a Los Angeles graveyard, unable to remember anything about herself or her life. No one is more surprised than she when, days later, her husband comes to the police station to take her home - and turns out to be Hollywood's leading superstar, Alex Rivers.

It's Friday the 13th, and Diana is an ambitious young appraiser at Sotheby's in New York. She's about to go on a long-awaited holiday, where she knows Finn, her surgeon boyfriend, will propose and the next stage of her carefully planned life will begin. But it is Friday the 13th of March 2020. The new virus hits. Finn can't leave the city and suggests she goes without him. In the Galapagos, unable to get back to her real life, Diana learns about the devastation hitting the world as she hears intermittently from her boyfriend.

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. Now, having left home and her father for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, Paige finds herself with a child of her own. Emotionally and physically exhausted, overwhelmed by the demands of her family, Paige cannot forget her mother’s absence or the shameful memories from her own past. Her next step would have been unthinkable before her doubts about her maternal ability crept into her mind.

From number-one New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult and her daughter and cowriter, Samantha Van Leer, comes Off the Page, a tender, wonderfully imaginative and romantic crossover novel. Meant for each other... Meet Oliver, a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairy tale and transported into the real world. Meet Delilah, the girl who wished Oliver into being. It's a miracle that seems perfect at first - but there are complications.

Once, Hope Payne was a mermaid, performing at the local theme park and captivating audiences young and old. Today, she's married to a pragmatic marine biologist who has filled the pool in their backyard with flounder for a special study. Before he begins, the fish vanish - echoing a loss Hope alone can understand. She senses there's something underwater, something alive and hungry for more, but is she in too deep to ever resurface?

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.

In Elizabethan London, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her education has endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but still she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees the theatre, Emilia discovers the power of stories to beguile audiences. Secretly, she forms a plan to bring a play of her own to the stage – by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.

There is no doubt that Jamie Macdonald killed his wife. But was it murder, or mercy? The case divides the small town of Wheelock. For Police Chief Cameron Macdonald, there's no question that he should be tried and face life imprisonment for Murder One. But Jamie's victim was dying of cancer. He claims she asked for his help to die. And there are those who believe he has suffered enough....

Tiefe Verzweiflung erfasst die junge Katie. Doch in der kleinen Amisch-Gemeinde von Lancaster County kann sie niemandem ihr Geheimnis anvertrauen. Deshalb betet sie zu Gott, dass das hilflose Bündel vor ihr im Stroh für immer aus ihrem Leben verschwinden möge - und steht wenig später unter Mordverdacht. Vor dem faszinierenden Hintergrund der Lebenswelt einer Amisch-Gemeinde erzählt Jodi Picoult von Liebe und Tod, Verrat und bewegender Treue: ein meisterhafter psychologischer Thriller und die Geschichte einer mitreißenden Freundschaft zweier ungewöhnlicher Frauen.

"Es ist vorbei, sagte er. Doch das war es nicht, es fing gerade erst an." Nach seiner unaussprechlichen Bluttat in der Sterling Highschool zweifelt niemand an der Schuld des 17-jährigen Peter Houghton. Doch während der kleine Ort mit den Folgen dieser 19 Minuten zu ringen hat, wird das Rätsel um den Ablauf der Tragödie immer größer... Die Bestsellerautorin Jodi Picoult lotet die Hintergründe von großer Schuld und der verzweifelten Suche nach Gerechtigkeit aus.

Die New Yorkerin Diana O'Toole überlässt nichts dem Schicksal—ganz besonders nicht ihre Zukunft. Bis ins kleinste Detail hat sie ihr Leben durchgeplant und der nächste große Schritt steht kurz bevor: Auf der gemeinsamen Reise zu den Galapagosinseln wird ihr Freund Finn ihr einen Antrag machen. Doch kurz vor der Abreise bricht in der Stadt ein Virus aus und Finn wird als Arzt in seinem Krankenhaus gebraucht. Widerstrebend bricht Diana allein auf und findet eine Insel im Ausnahmezustand.

La vie de Diana est sur des rails : elle a le petit ami idéal et le job de ses rêves chez Sotheby's. À bientôt 30 ans, il ne lui manque plus que la bague au doigt, et elle est presque sûre que Finn va faire sa demande pendant leur escapade aux Galápagos. Mais, réquisitionné par l'hôpital où il fait son internat en ce début d'année 2020, il doit rester et insiste pour qu'elle profite de ce paradis sans lui. C'est donc à contrecœur qu'elle part... et rien ne se passe comme prévu : sans hôtel ni wifi, elle se retrouve coupée du monde et doit sortir de sa zone de confort.

Als im Mercy-West Haven Hospital in Connecticut ein Neugeborenes nach einem Routineeingriff stirbt, scheint schnell klar zu sein, wer daran schuld ist: Ruth Jefferson, die dunkelhäutige Säuglingsschwester, der untersagt war, das Baby anzufassen. Und nicht nur Turk Bauer, der rassistische Vater des Kindes, hält Ruth für verantwortlich... Es folgt ein nervenaufreibendes Verfahren in dem Ruth zum Glück auf die Hilfe der engagierten Pflichtverteidigerin Kennedy McQuarrie zählen kann.

Die dreizehnjährige Jenna ist eine Einzelgängerin. Sie lebt bei ihrer Großmutter seit ihre Mutter Alice vor zehn Jahre verschwunden ist. In einem Elefantenreservat kam es damals zu einem folgenschweren Vorfall, bei dem Elefantenforscherin Alice bewusstlos aufgefunden wurde. In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sich Jenna an die Wahrsagerin Serenity und macht einen Privatdetektiv ausfindig.

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.

Was wäre, wenn wir in entscheidenden Momenten des Lebens eine andere Wahl getroffen hätten? Dawn Edelstein hatte sich einst bei Ausgrabungen in Ägypten in einen Kollegen verliebt, mit dem sie alte Grabtexte entschlüsselte. Bis ein Telefonanruf ihr Leben komplett umkrempelte. Fünfzehn Jahre später ist Dawn verheiratet, hat eine Tochter im Teenager-Alter und arbeitet in Boston als Sterbebegleiterin. Als sie einen Flugzeugabsturz überlebt, drängt sich ihr die Frage auf, ob das gute Leben, das sie hat, noch viel besser hätte sein können.