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Change of heart / Jodi Picoult

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Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
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Murderers - Fiction.; Heart - Transplantation - Patients - Fiction.; Large type books.
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"Change of Heart looks at the nature of organized religion and belief, and takes the reader behind the closely drawn curtains of America's death penalty. Featuring the return of Ian Fletcher from Keeping Faith, it also asks whether religion and politics truly are separate, or inextricably tangled. Does religion make us more tolerant, or less? Do we believe what we do because it's right? Or because it's too frightening to admit that we may not have the answers?"--Provided by publisher.
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Change of heart / Jodi Picoult. - Large print ed.
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub.,
2 pages
2008, 2008 English Book; Large print 27
Title
  • Change of heart /​ Jodi Picoult.
Author
  • Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Edition
  • Large print ed.
Published
  • Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2008.
Physical Description
  • 555, [2] p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Summary
  • Shay Bourne‚ New Hampshire's first death row prisoner‚ is now 69 years old. He has only one last request: to donate his heart‚ post-execution‚ to the sister of his victim‚ who needs a transplant. Bourne says it's the only way he can redeem himself. Shay's spiritual advisor‚ Father Michael Wright‚ knows redemption has nothing to do with organ donation‚ and plans to convince Bourne - until miracles‚ witnessed by inmates and prison guards alike‚ make the unkempt‚ bipolar‚ convicted murderer a media personality.
Language
  • English
ISBN
  • 9781602851658 (lib. bdg : alk. paper)
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  • 813/​.54
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  • 42589785
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Change of heart / Jodi Picoult.
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin,
447 pages
2008 English Book 61
Title
  • Change of heart /​ Jodi Picoult.
Author
  • Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Published
  • Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen &​ Unwin, 2008.
Physical Description
  • 447 p. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Target Audience
  • General
Summary
  • "Change of Heart looks at the nature of organized religion and belief, and takes the reader behind the closely drawn curtains of America's death penalty. Featuring the return of Ian Fletcher from Keeping Faith, it also asks whether religion and politics truly are separate, or inextricably tangled. Does religion make us more tolerant, or less? Do we believe what we do because it's right? Or because it's too frightening to admit that we may not have the answers?"--Provided by publisher.
Notes
  • Previously published: New York : Atria Books, 2008.
  • Bibliography: p. [448]
Language
  • English
ISBN
  • 9781741750737 (pbk.)
  • 9781741754964 (hbk.)
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  • 813.54
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  • 42287751
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Change of heart Jodi Picoult ; read by various narrators. [sound recording] /
Leicester, [England] : Howes : Clipper Audio,
12 sound discs (CD) (ca. 15.25...
2008 English Audio book 22
Title
  • Change of heart [sound recording] /​ Jodi Picoult ; read by various narrators.
Creator
  • Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Published
  • Leicester, [England] : Howes : Clipper Audio, p2008.
Physical Description
  • 12 sound discs (CD) (ca. 15.25 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/​4in. in container.
Subjects
Summary
  • June's first husband was killed in a car crash. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years on they are a happy family. But now June's second daughter is dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne, an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty. Shay is going to die, and he is looking for redemption. He wants to give June's daughter his heart...
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  • Read by various narrators.
Notes
  • Unabridged.
  • Howes: CU 979.
Language
  • English
ISBN
  • 9781407414577
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  • 43237409
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Change of heart / Jodi Picoult. - Large print ed.
Oxford : Isis,
563 pages
2008 English Book; Large print 13
Change of heart / Jodi Picoult.
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin,
11 pages
2009 English Book 10
Change of heart / Jodi Picoult. - Large print ed.
Oxford : Isis,
584 pages
2009 English Book; Large print 4
Huan xin = Change of heart / Jodi Picoult zhu ; Xie Huixin yi. - Chu ban.
Taibei Shi : Taiwan shang wu yin shu guan, - Voice ; 12
473 pages
2009 Chinese Book 4
Change of heart Jodi Picoult ; read by various narrators. [sound recording] /
Leicester, [England] : Howes : Clipper Audio,
12 sound cassettes (ca. 15.25 ...
2008 English Audio book 3
Change of heart.
2001 English Book 2
Change of heart / Jodi Picoult. - Large print ed., unabridged.
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub.,
3 pages
2008 English Book; Large print 1

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When You Question Your Beliefs...
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Tamela Mccann "taminator1" (Nashville, TN USA)

Convicted murderers are sentenced to be executed on a regular basis in the United States; after many appeals and much time, some actually do face the final steps to their deaths in payment for their crimes. Whether or not you agree with this method of punishment, you will find much to ponder in Jodi Picoult's Change of Heart as you follow Shay Bourne, convicted of murdering a 7 year old girl and her stepfather, as he faces death and hope of compensation for the sister of the girl left behind.

Picoult brings us a rich tableau of characters in Change of Heart, not all of them likeable. We have Shay, who has committed this unspeakable crime, yet seems to have some mystical powers; Father Michael, Shay's spiritual advisor who was the deciding vote to sentence him to death on his jury eleven years before; Maggie, the ACLU lawyer who feels allowing Shay to die as he wants will spotlight the wrongs of the death penalty; June, the mother who lost her husband and daughter in a heinous way and whose daughter Claire, born after the deaths of her sister and father, is now slowly slipping away from a defective heart. Shay wants to donate his heart to Claire in order to somehow make up for the losses but lethal injection won't allow him to, so he's asking for hanging instead. But does he even deserve to die? What of the "miracles" he's performing from his cell? And would Claire and June even want the heart of their loved ones' killer?

Picoult takes a sensitive subject and embues it with excellent research on the origins of Christianity as well as believable characters with their own crises of faith. The action moves along well, and there is, of course, a Picoult trademark twist or two. Though the story does borrow from Stephen King's The Green Mile, it is so thought-provoking and well researched that the comparisons are superficial. I will be thinking about this one for a long time, and that, I am sure, was Ms. Picoult's goal in the first place. Highly recommended.

~taminator40

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June lost her husband in an auto accident that left her with a broken leg. The police officer, Kurt Nealon, who tells her of her husband's death, later becomes husband number two and stepfather to June's daughter. Life should be good for June now as she's expecting another daughter. But she's hired a handyman carpenter, thirty-three-year old Isaiah M. Bourne, who instead of being grateful for the work, kills Kurt, then molests and kills June's daughter.

Eleven years later, Bourne is on death row and wants to make amends by donating his heart to June's new daughter Elizabeth, who is suffering with pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy. He believes if he gives his heart to the dying sister of the girl he murdered that he'll find salvation, which is the last thing June wants, but she doesn't want Elizabeth to die either.

And even though Bourne wants to die, he needs an attorney, because he wants death by hanging, not the needle, as that would damage the heart. His attorney, a woman with her own problems, has more than a client who wants salvation on her hands as weird and strange things have been going on on death row. One day the prison taps started flowing with wine. Borne brings a dead bird back to life. He cures a fellow prisoner of aids. Is there a message in his name which when pronounced comes out as I Am Born? And he is a thirty-three-year old carpenter about to be put to death, what is the significance of that?

There are man who come to believe Bourne might just be the Messiah, including Father Michael, his spiritual advisor, who, before he became a priest, just happened to be one of the jurors who voted to condemn Bourne.

As you can see there is a lot going on in this book and I've just scratched the surface. Suffice it to say, as improbable and impossible as some of this sounds, when Jodi Picoult delivers it, you believe. I know I did. I couldn't put this one down and even now, I'm asking myself, what would I do were I June, let the killer have his salvation or let him save my daughter?

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Chelsie "Chel" (Necedah, WI)

Shay Bourne was convicted of killing a seven-year-old girl, Elizabeth, and a police officer,Kurt; and he was sentenced to death.

Eleven years later, with his execution date coming up, he wants his heart to be given to Elizabeth's sister, who has a deadly illness that requires her to need a new heart, otherwise she would die.

This book, in true Jodi Picoult fashion, was absolutely amazing. Not only did it have perfect characters who grew and changed throughout the story, but from the very beginning there left a question begging to be asked: Why did Shay kill Elizabeth and Kurt in the first place? The whole book focuses around Shay and his fight for his execution to allow him to donate his heart, and the growing evidence that Shay could be some sort of religious figure from the past.

Jodi Picoult has the perfect blend of serious issues and lighter topics, and once again she delivers a novel that makes fiction sound believeable. I have yet to read a Picoult novel that I have not cried at least once, and this was no exception. Fans of her other novels will flock to this book, and new readers will definitely be wanting more.

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