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Jodi Picoult
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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is the author of nineteen novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Why do it when you can overdo it?
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My life in 8 words: "Writer, mom, Wonder Woman. Not necessarily in order."
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    2. Jodi Picoult: Change of Heart
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    4. Meet Jodi Picoult
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    5. Author Jodi Picoult Reveals Her Favorite TV show
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    6. House Rules Television Commercial
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    7. Jodi Picoult Podcast: House Rules
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    8. An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the audio book recording of LONE WOLF by Jodi Picoult
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    9. Behind the Scenes of BETWEEN THE LINES with Jodi Picoult
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    10. Behind the Scenes at the Audio Recording of LONE WOLF
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    11. Jodi Picoult reveals her 2010 novel HOUSE RULES
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    12. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
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    13. Visit Rome with author Jodi Picoult
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December 12, 2008
Hello everyone, I hope everyone’s surviving the holidays! The first bit of news I have to share with you is the publication...
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Between the Lines will be released on June 25, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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The Storyteller will be released on November 05, 2013 in Trade Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
about 6 hours ago
The Tenth Circle will be released on December 24, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback
about 6 hours ago
Las normas de la casa will be released on November 26, 2013 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jun 14, 2013
News:
Between the Lines has won an award
Jun 11, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Perfect Match
May 07, 2013
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Storyteller
Mar 02, 2013
The Storyteller will be released on February 26, 2013 in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 26, 2013
The Storyteller is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Feb 26, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Storyteller
Feb 12, 2013
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Jan 25, 2013
Nineteen Minutes will be released on January 22, 2013 in Mass Market Paperback
Jan 22, 2013
Nineteen Minutes is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Jan 22, 2013
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Jan 09, 2013
Author Appearances have been announced:
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Dec 21, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Perfect Match
Dec 08, 2012

Jodi Picoult Revealed

Jodi Picoult Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Why do it when you can overdo it? Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. When you hear someone say "God bless the United States of America." Why just us??? Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. I'd like to be reincarnated as our dog, Dudley. He sleeps all day, uses his looks to get out of trouble, and is universally beloved. Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. I'm a perfectionist, and I expect everyone to work as hard and as quickly as I do. Q. What are your most overused words or phrases? A. My fifteen year old son, who just read Handle With Care, said I used "catch-22" at least ten times... Learn more about Jodi Picoult

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Lovereading, June 14, 2013
...service to find new favourites. See three suggestions below. Like Rosamunde Pilcher you’ll love Liz Fenwick Like Jodi Picoult you’ll love Diane Chamberlain Like Jojo Moyes you’ll love Lauren St John Independents’ Day! ...
Guardian.co.uk, June 14, 2013
...to find a reason to criticise it." Another of our readers of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. This novel is about Anna - the product of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis – who was conceived to donate bone marrow to help save her older sister Kate,...
Rockford Register Star, June 9, 2013
...the library?s website and snags up titles by her favorite authors: Nora Roberts, James Patterson, Stephen King and Jodi Picoult. One of Workinger?s favorite aspects of the service is that there are no late fees. ?I don?t have the discipline to return a...
Deccan Herald, June 8, 2013
...The storyteller Jodi Picoult Hodder & Stoughton, 2013, pp 460, 695 Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. She sleeps by day and works by night...
Heritage Florida Jewish News, June 7, 2013
...New York Jewish Week Early on in Jodi Picoult’s new novel “The Storyteller” (Atria), Josef Weber comments that Sage Singer doesn’t say much in their grief support group, but when she does speak up, she’s...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, June 7, 2013
..."Shriver brilliantly explores the strength of sibling bonds versus the often more fragile ties of marriage." "If Jodi Picoult has her finger on the zeitgeist, Shriver has her hands around its throat." "Shriver’s understanding of her people is so...
Guardian.co.uk, June 6, 2013
...probably lots of books out there sadder than this, but this is pretty high on the sad scale. Jodi Picoult has children so how she actually managed to write this book I don't know; how she had the guts to actually write a book as upsetting as this...
York Daily Record, June 7, 2013
...part of things - enough a part to not want to hurt others. In her book "Nineteen Minutes," Jodi Picoult writes from the perspective of a teenager who perpetrated a (fictional) school shooting: "You'll think about me and wish that you had been able to...
Heritage Florida Jewish News, June 7, 2013
...New York Jewish Week Early on in Jodi Picoult’s new novel “The Storyteller” (Atria), Josef Weber comments that Sage Singer doesn’t say much in their grief support group, but when she does speak up, she’s...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, June 7, 2013
..."Shriver brilliantly explores the strength of sibling bonds versus the often more fragile ties of marriage." "If Jodi Picoult has her finger on the zeitgeist, Shriver has her hands around its throat." "Shriver’s understanding of her people is so...
Big News Network, June 6, 2013
...Anna has been having stuff taken away from her, her whole life. Her umbilical cord blood as soon as she was born; at the age of five she gave donor lymphocytes which involved drawing blood from the crooks of her arms; a month later she gave more...
Guardian.co.uk, June 6, 2013
...probably lots of books out there sadder than this, but this is pretty high on the sad scale. Jodi Picoult has children so how she actually managed to write this book I don't know; how she had the guts to actually write a book as upsetting as this...
Marshfield News Herald, June 6, 2013
...Christmas by Fannie Flagg No. 6 Wisconsin author Michael Perry book selections No. 7 My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult; The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokow No. 8 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Just One Look by Harlan Coben No. 9 Id Know You...
School Library Journal, June 4, 2013
...own answers about Kate’s past. This a page-turning mystery and thriller will appeal to teen fans of Jodi Picoult.– Sarah Flowers, formerly of Santa Clara County Library , CA MCMAHON , Jennifer. The One I left Behind. 422p. Morrow. Jan. 2013. Tr...