Nineteen Minutes

By Jodi Picoult

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Nineteen Minutes is a 2007 novel by Jodi Picoult. In nineteen minutes, a bullied teenager named Peter Houghton opens fire in his New Hampshire high school. Judge Alex Cormier, whose daughter Josie survived the shooting, takes the case, as the town tries to understand how it happened.

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