Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search



Leaving time : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

Leaving time : a novel / Jodi Picoult.

Summary:

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts. As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780345544926 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0345544927 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 405 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, ©2014
Subject: Teenage girls > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Grief in animals > Fiction.
Elephants > Research > Fiction.
Animal sanctuaries > Fiction.
Women scientists > Fiction.
Private investigators > Fiction.
Psychics > Fiction.
Desertion and non-support > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at scottsboropl.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Show All Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
scottsboropl F Pic 32269000974991 Adult - Fiction Available -
scottsboropl F Pic 32269001101776 Storage - Adult Available -

Summary: For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts. As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish

Additional Resources