Nineteen Minutes, published on March 6, 2007, is a novel by Jodi Picoult. It was her first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. The book is about a school shooting, and focuses on the events leading up to and following the incident.
The story begins on March 6, 2007 in a small town in New Hampshire called Sterling, tracking the lives of a number of characters on an ordinary day, including Alex Cormier, a superior court judg...
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Nineteen Minutes, published on March 6, 2007, is a novel by Jodi Picoult. It was her first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. The book is about a school shooting, and focuses on the events leading up to and following the incident.
The story begins on March 6, 2007 in a small town in New Hampshire called Sterling, tracking the lives of a number of characters on an ordinary day, including Alex Cormier, a superior court judge and her daughter, Josie, a junior in high school, Lacy and Peter Houghton, Detective Patrick Ducharme, Matt Royston (Josie's boyfriend) and several victims-to-be.
At the local high school - Sterling High, the story follows a routine day of students in classes, at the gym and in the cafeteria. Suddenly, a loud bang is heard from the parking lot, which turns out to be a bomb set off in Matt Royston's car. As the students are distracted by the noise, gun shots are fired. When Patrick, the only detective on the Sterling police force, arrives at...
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