A spark of light : a novel /
by Picoult, Jodi [author.].
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BookPublisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]Edition: First edition.Description: 369 pages ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780345544988; 0345544986.Subject(s): Hostages -- Fiction | Hostage negotiations -- Fiction | Family planning services -- Fiction | Abortion services -- Fiction | FICTION / Contemporary Women | FICTION / Literary | FICTION / Sagas | FICTION / Women | Thrillers (Fiction)Summary: "[A] novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. 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 fifteen-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 ... [T]his 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369).
"[A] novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. 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 fifteen-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 ... [T]his 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Accelerated Reader UG 5.8 17 501609.
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