After talking about the central issues in Lone Wolf, Ms. Picoult will take questions from the audience. Afterwards, she will sign books.

 

Ms. Picoult will sign and personalize an unlimited number of copies of Lone Wolf, but will sign (no personalization) only one backlist book per person. Backlist books and additional copies of Lone Wolf can be purchased from Fiction Addiction in advance or at the event as supplies last.

Note: This is a ticketed event. Seating is limited, so we encourage you to pre-order tickets online at www.fiction-addiction.com or by calling us at 864-675-0540. Physical tickets and books can be picked up at the store when Lone Wolf releases on 2/28/12, or we can bring them to the event for pickup there.

Edward Warren, 24, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.

 

With his father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?

Lone Wolf explores the notion of family, and the love, protection, and strength it's meant to offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it, is the very thing that pulls it apart? Another tour de force from Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf examines the wild and lonely terrain upon which love battles reason.

Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of 19 novels, four of which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Picoult studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism--and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent--led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher--before entering Harvard to pursue a Master's in Education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.

 

In 2003, she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. She has also been the recipient of an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist, one of ten books written for adults that have special appeal for young adults; the Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year; a Lifetime Achievement Award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America; Cosmopolitan magazine's "Fearless Fiction" Award 2007; Waterstone's Author of the Year in the UK; a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award; a Virginia Reader's Choice Award; the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award; and a Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award. She wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her books are translated into 34 languages in 35 countries. Three--The Pact, Plain Truth, and The Tenth Circle--have been made into television movies. My Sister's Keeper was a big-screen release from New Line Cinema with Nick Cassavetes directing and Cameron Diaz starring. She received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Dartmouth College in 2010.

 

She and Tim and their three children live in Hanover, New Hampshire, with two Springer spaniels, two donkeys, two geese, one duck, eight chickens, and the occasional Holstein.