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Believe there is power in literature, band or. otherwise maybe this book can help a velshi banned book club member explore their feelings and fears surrounding the heart wrenching issue of school shootings, if they didn't happen is frequently as they do. maybe reading the book will generate meaningful conversation. for some of you, have in the discussion we are about to have might be too soon. so please do consider this a content warning. the book is called 19 minutes, by the prolific bestselling author jodi picoult. he is set in sterling, new hampshire, in 2007. throughout the, book time clas...

In the world order. on one, hand nato has had its best year ever. it's getting more members, everybody now realizes it's important again. but this fight is not over in ukraine. >> right, this fight is not over. my book starts with our failure after the cold war ended, i was there, to conceive of a global strategy for u.s. leadership. we just thought, we won, they lost, china wants to be us, they're no real threat to the u.s. and russia should just be ground into the -- russia is a loser. and we paid for that big time, because china did want to be asked, the terrorist wanted to take us out and ...

Shooting, and her mother, and a member of the towns law enforcement. let's quickly talk about the woman behind the word. jodi picoult is one of the most prolific authors overtime, hugely popular, selling more than 50 million copies of 28 novels worldwide. the wealth of jodi picoult's work deals with controversial issues, abortion, lgbtq, issues and of course school shootings. 90 minutes was her first book to debut at number one on the new york times bestseller list. it is far from her only book to face calls for a ban. on the one hand, 19 minutes is a quintessentially jodi picoult book. comple...

Polarizing. when it comes specifically to 19 minutes, it is really worth noting that we regulate drugs and cars and alcohol,, and even ladders. and, now apparently books, we regulate the bookseller kids are supposed to be reading. but we still do not regulate guns. >> when you look at the body of your work, because we tackle all the topics that you could be talking about every week on the news, what is the role? because you really are the exemplar of a writer who writes accessible things. these are not -- we have between your solution. that is a different issue, she is fantastic. she's a fanta...

Hand and book two of my fingers. and it just seems like nothing changes when it comes to bullying. there are always going to be, clicks always going to because you are excluded. and it is necessary for us to understand that sometimes inaction is an action. and kids need to understand that too. if you see somebody sitting alone in the cafeteria, even if you are not actively bowling that kid, the fact you are not reaching out to them as a choice. >> your books are eminently readable. you cover a lot of controversial topics. every single book that we have on this show, that has had an attempted b...