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Handle with care

Charlotte and her husband are living the perfect life until their daughter, Willow, is born with a rare and painful disease. She is diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta, which leaves her bones very susceptible to injury. As medical bills mount, and with Willow's pain too much to bear, Charlot...

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Main Author: Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2009.
Subjects:
Osteogenesis imperfecta > Fiction.
Wrongful life > Fiction.
Medical care, Cost of > Fiction.
Parents of children with disabilities > Fiction.
Mothers > Psychology > Fiction.
Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Psychological fiction.
Summary: Charlotte and her husband are living the perfect life until their daughter, Willow, is born with a rare and painful disease. She is diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta, which leaves her bones very susceptible to injury. As medical bills mount, and with Willow's pain too much to bear, Charlotte has no choice but to sue her doctor. Although her doctor was her best friend, and her husband is uncooperative, Charlotte must set her personal feeling aside for the well-being of her daughter.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact discs.
Physical Description: 15 sound discs (18 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN: 9781436198400
1436198402
Author Notes: Jodi Picoult was born in Nesconset, New York on May 19, 1966. She received a degree in creative writing from Princeton University in 1987 and a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she landed a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English.

Her first book, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was published in 1992. Her other works include Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, Salem Falls, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care, House Rules, Sing You Home, Lone Wolf, Leaving Time, and Small Great Things. My Sister's Keeper was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz. She received the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. She also wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. She writes young adult novels with her daughter Samantha van Leer including Between the Lines and Off the Page.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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