¿Puede un padre o una madre amar demasiado?¿O es que acaso tanto amor nunca es suficiente?Anna Fitzgerald no está enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con apenas trece años de edad ha soportado innumerables operaciones, inyecciones y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor Kate pueda de alguna manera sobrevivir a la leucemia que la aqueja desde su niñez.Anna, al ser genéticamente compatible con su hermana, fue la candidata idónea para ser la donante del transplante de médula de Kate, asumiendo así un papel que nunca cuestionaría sino hasta ahora. Como la mayoría de los adolescentes, Anna está comenzando a plantearse quién realmente es. Pero a diferencia de los demás, ella siempre ha sido definida en función de Kate. Es ahora cuando Anna toma una decisión que ante los ojos del mundo no es más que impensable, una decisión que desgarrará a su familia, atrayendo quizá fatales consecuencias para su hermana a la que tanto ama. Se trata de una provocadora novela que presenta una serie de planteamientos éticos importantes.Por la vida de mi hermanano es solamente la historia familiar de la lucha por sobrevivir sino una contemporánea parábola moral. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Imagine that you were conceived to be the donor of bone marrow and platelets for your older sister, who has a rare form of cancer. Imagine what it would be like to grow up in a family where everyone is constantly aware of one child's deadly illness, so that all decisions must be filtered through what will work for her treatment or her most recent medical emergency. How can a 12-year-old decide against donating a kidney to her older sister? By having this story narrated by each character in turn, Picoult shows readers the dilemmas facing everyone involved: from Anna, the child who sues her parents for medical emancipation; to Sara, the mother who loves all three of her children but must devote continual attention to the daughter with cancer; and to Jesse, the son who has abandoned hope of ever being noticed by his parents. [LJ 15/03/04] (Can She Be Stopped? Hillary Clinton Will Be The Next President of the United States Unless...)Podhoretz, John.The Marxist belief in the inevitability of history is alive and well in this book by New York Post columnist and Fox News commentator Podhoretz. Raising the specter of a second Clinton presidency, he offers conservatives hope with a ten-point plan to thwart the election of the junior senator from New York. Prognostication is the bread and butter of television news and op-ed pages, but at book length it quickly grows wearisome. The book format also tends to immortalize flawed forecasts. Podhoretz's book is red meat for the Right, the people who already dislike the senator and don't need any further convincing. [LJ 15/05/06]Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information