A spark of light: a novel
(Book)
"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 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."--
Level 5.8, 17 Points
Notes
Picoult, J. (2019). A spark of light: a novel. Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. New York, Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Picoult, Jodi, 1966-. 2019. A Spark of Light: A Novel. New York, Ballantine Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Picoult, Jodi, 1966-, A Spark of Light: A Novel. New York, Ballantine Books, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Picoult, Jodi. A Spark of Light: A Novel. Ballantine Books trade paperback edition. New York, Ballantine Books, 2019.
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