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020 _a9780061150142
024 _a71223190
050 _aPS3566.I372
082 _a813.54
100 1 _aJodi Picoult
245 1 _aThe Pact
260 _bAvon
300 _a512 pages
520 _aUntil the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead&#8212shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pact&#8212leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew. From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult&#8212one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction&#8212comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence.
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