Fayetteville Free Library Reading Room

Change of Heart
By: Jodi Picoult

Fiction

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother’s tragic loss and one man’s last chance at gaining salvation.

One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.

For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens that changes everything for him. Now, he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June’s eleven-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage of a mother who has lost her child.

Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerizes and enthralls readers with this story of redemption, justice, and love.

Released on March 4, 2008

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Into the Wild
Starring Emile Hirsch and Marcia Gay Hayden
Rated R

Biographical Drama

Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn’s adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature. Upon his 1990 graduation from Emory University in Atlanta, Christopher McCandless walks away from a loving his dysfunctional family and sends his nearly 25,000-dollar life savings to Oxfam International. Instead of the normal life his parents planned for him, Chris rechristens himself “Alexander Supertramp” and heads west in his beaten-up automobile until it no longer runs, at which point he takes up hitchhiking. The goal on the horizon? Alaska. Meanwhile, his parents (William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden) and sister (Jena Malone) haven’t received so much as a postcard from him, and begin to fear the worst

Released on March 4, 2008

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