01953cam a2200349 i 4500 1164335868 TxAuBib 20141031120000.0 140717s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014023994 9780345544926 hardcover 0345544927 hardcover (OCoLC)884139270 DLC eng rda DLC IG# UOK TxAuBib rda Picoult, Jodi, 1966- Leaving time : a novel / Jodi Picoult. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, [2014] 405 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-402). "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."-- Provided by publisher. 20141031. Teenage girls Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. TXKIP