The Fox Inheritance

Once there were three. Three friends who loved each other—Jenna, Locke, and Kara. And after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, their three minds were kept alive, spinning in a digital netherworld. Even in that disembodied nightmare, they were still together. At least at first. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara had to go on without her. Decades passed, and then centuries. Two-hundred-and-sixty years later, they have been released at last. Given new, perfect bodies, Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead. Everyone except Jenna Fox.

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication. The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he'll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network. Locke must infiltrate the home of a government official by gaining the trust of his daughter, seventeen-year-old Raine, and he soon finds himself pulled deep into the world of the resistance—and into Raine's life. In Fox Forever, Mary E. Pearson brings the story she began in The Adoration of Jenna Fox and continued in The Fox Inheritance to a breathtaking conclusion as Locke discovers that being truly human requires much more than flesh and blood.

The Jenna Fox Chronicles: The Adoration of Jenna Fox, The Fox Inheritance, and Fox Forever This award-winning trilogy explores what it means to be human. Set in a future United States, it begins with Jenna's search for identity, a quest as old as history but as startling as the future, and continues with her friend Locke Jenkins whose life is catapaulted into a future he never could have imagined. The Adoration of Jenna Fox: When seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox wakes from a coma, it isn't only her friends and family she doesn't remember—she's forgotten herself. Jenna is told that she had an accident so horrific it's a miracle that she survived. As Jenna's memories return to her, her confusion grows. This life doesn't feel like hers. This body doesn't feel like hers. What happened while Jenna was asleep? Why do her parents seem so afraid and her grandmother so cold? the answers to those questions will change everything. The Fox Inheritance: Jenna, Locke, and Kara have been separated from their bodies, their minds cast off into darkness. Together, the three friends weather their purgatory—until one day, Jenna vanishes. As the years pass, Locke and Kara take solace in each other's presence. After nearly three lifetimes have passed, thay are given new bodies and reintroduced into a world they can no longer recognize. Fox Forever: Favors, especially those owed to the Network, rarely go unclaimed. Locke Jenkins learns this the hard way when the resistance group comes knocking at his door. His task involves seventeen-year-old Raine, daughter to a powerful man in the government that the Network seeks to destroy. But what starts as a political plot soon turns into something more complicated. Includes bonus chapters from Mary Pearson Kiss of Deception!

Download the first five chapters of THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by Mary E. Pearson Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication. Start The Jenna Fox Chronicles from the beginning with THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX, continue the story with THE FOX INHERITANCE and read the thrilling conclusion, FOX FOREVER, on sale March 19, 2013!

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family. • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! Based on the author’s own family letters, Send for Me tells the story of Annelise, a young woman in prewar Germany. Growing up working at her parents’ popular bakery, she's always imagined a future full of delicious possibilities. Despite rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, Annelise and her parents can’t quite believe that it will affect them; they’re hardly religious. But as she falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the dangers grow closer. Soon Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and safety are uncertain. Two generations later in a small Midwestern city, Annelise’s granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon a trove of the letters her great-grandmother wrote from Germany after Annelise's departure, she sees the history of her family’s sacrifices in a new light, leading her to question whether she can still honor the past while planning for her future.

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