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<div><div id="iframeContent" dir="auto">The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new 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: 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 cross hairs 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. Told 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. Jodi Picoult—one of the most fearless 
writers of our time—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? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding. Advance praise for A Spark of Light “Picoult delivers another riveting yarn . . . in this carefully crafted, utterly gripping tale.”—Booklist (starred review)</div></div>

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