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A spark of light  Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

A spark of light / Jodi Picoult.

Summary:

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 crosshairs 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781410463753
  • ISBN: 1410463753
  • Physical Description: 571 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Thorndike Press large print basic."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-568).
Subject: Hostages > Fiction.
Women's health services > Fiction.
Hostage negotiations > Fiction.
Abortion services > Fiction.
Abortion > Moral and ethical aspects > Fiction.
Family planning services > Fiction.
Domestic terrorism > Fiction.
Genre: Large type books.
Thrillers (Fiction)

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Blair County Library System.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altoona Area Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Altoona Area Public Library LP F PIC (Text) 33240005135150 AAPL Transportation Center Available -
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library F Pic Lg.Type 2018 (Text) 10HOL000435863 Adult Fiction Available -
Tyrone-Snyder Public Library LP F Pico (Text) 1OTYR00048282A Adult Fiction Available -


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