Plain Truth

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Author(s)\Editor(s): Picoult, Jodi – – Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20070807Standardized Book Category: PsychologicalLanguage: \n \n EnglishPage Count: \n \n 00432Publisher Marketing: \n \n From the bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country–and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm.The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the child’s life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide–and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep inside the world of those who live \”plain,\” Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within–to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past reenters her life.