01941cam a2200325 i 4500 179607762 TxAuBib 20141024120000.0 140717s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014023994 9780345544926 hardcover 0345544927 hardcover TxAuBib rda Picoult, Jodi. Leaving time [HC] : a novel / Jodi Picoult. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2014] 405 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her mother's desertion. So she decides to approach the two people who might still be able to help her find Alice: a disgraced psychic named Serenity Jones, and Virgil Stanhope, the cynical detective who first investigated her mother's disappearance and the death of one of her mother's co-workers. Together these three lonely souls will discover truths destined to forever change their lives. Deeply moving and suspenseful, Leaving Time is a radiant exploration of the enduring love between mothers and daughters"-- Provided by publisher. 20141024. Teenage girls Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. FICTION / Contemporary Women. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction.