{"product_id":"a-spark-of-light-paperback","title":"A Spark of Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJodi Picoult\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Great Things\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult 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? \u003ci\u003eA Spark of Light\u003c\/i\u003e will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLook in the back of the book for reader's discussion questions and a conversation with Jodi Picoult.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA Spark of Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Told backward and hour by hour, Jodi Picoult's compelling narrative deftly explores controversial social issues.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUs Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJodi Picoult \u003c\/b\u003eis the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eauthor of twenty-three novels, including \u003ci\u003eSmall Great Things, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMy Sister's Keeper\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author, with daughter Samantha van Leer, of two young adult novels, \u003ci\u003eBetween the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOff the Page\u003c\/i\u003e. 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