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Book Of The
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Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult
Description of book
Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.
Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people—even those she loves and trusts most—don’t want that to happen.
Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. It’s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.
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Author Of The
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Jodi Picoult
Biography
Jodi Picoult, 44,is the bestselling author of
eighteen novels: Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992),
Harvesting the Heart (1994), Picture Perfect (1995),
Mercy (1996), The Pact (1998), Keeping Faith (1999),
Plain Truth (2000), Salem Falls (2001), Perfect Match
(2002), Second Glance (2003), My Sister's Keeper(2004),
Vanishing Acts (2005), The Tenth Circle (2006) Nineteen
Minutes (2007), Change of Heart (2008), Handle With Care
(2009), House Rules (2010) — the last four of which
debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller
list, – and her newest novel, , SING YOU HOME (2011).
Picoult studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism - and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent - led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher - before entering Harvard to pursue a master’s in education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel,Songs of the Humpback Whale.
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Movie Of The Month
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127
Hours
Rating: NC 16
Directed By: Danny
Boyle
Genre: Drama
Main Cast: Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, James Franco, Lizzy Caplan
Release Date: 17
February 2011
Plot Summary:
127 HOURS is the new film from Danny Boyle, the Academy Award® winning
director of 2008's Best Picture, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. 127 HOURS is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a falling boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated slot canyon in Utah. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers (Clémence Poésy), family, and the two hikers (Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara) he met before his accident. Over the next five days Ralston battles the
elements and his own demons to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, descend a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is
finally rescued. Told with a dynamic
narrative structure, 127 HOURS is a
visceral, thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before
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