Jodi Picoult Signs "The tithe Circle" Tuesday at noon.

Jodi Picoult Signs "The tithe Circle"

Tuesday at noon, Signature chamber 6440 Double Eagle Dr., Woodridge ($30); 7 pm North Central literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning 310 E. Benton, Naperville ($3) For tickets to as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but events, call 630-355-2665.

Wednesday at 7:30 pm Barnes & Noble, 55 advanced in years Orchard Center, Skokie.

The highly popular Picoult's latest novel touchs a comic book artist who had grown up as the simply white kid in an Eskimo village, then escapes the Arctic, learns married, fathers a daughter and lives happily to the end of time after -- until a single consequence of violence threatens to waste his family. As an artist he can't expres his feelings in words, sole in the form of a graphic novel that is embedded in the pages of Picoult's narrative.

"Some of Picoult's best storytelling," Publishers Weekly said. "Grips from start to finish." Booklist added: "Picoult's sad, web novel should appeal to the many readers who have be delighted withed her previous works."

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