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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Washington Square Press | | Page Count: | 432 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 07, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 3,415rd |
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| Perfect Match: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult (Author)
What does it mean to be a good mother?
How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice?
Perfect Match In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone...
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| My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult (Author)
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since...
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| Vanishing Acts: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult (Author)
How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose?Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall...until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it --...
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
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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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 288 reviews)
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Plain Truth is just plain GOOD! by Karen Ferrero (Morris, IL)  4 Stars
October 01, 2009
I must admit that I am a sucker for a crime drama, courtroom drama, with a little Amish sprinkled in. I couldn't resist Plain Truth and had some high expectations for this book. Jodi Picoult didn't disappoint. Reading this book was everything a good read should be--effortless, engrossing, intriguing, and difficult to set down. I'm pretty stingy with my stars, but this is a solid 4 to 4.5 star book.
I loved the straightforward style of Jodi Picoult's writing--it's straightforward with the right balance of description. So many popular authors try to force a lyrical style that comes off as pompous and detracts from the actual storytelling--the reader gets bogged down in the language and the reading becomes very tedious. Not so with this book. Jodi Picoult's writing style is the perfect mix that conjures up the images needed to produce imagery that enhances the story while at the same time moving the story along. There is no complaint from me that this book is too long, I didn't feel it drag at any point and I could have kept on reading. I was fascinated by the Amish community in the book, as well as the central event of the book.
For my cons, please keep reading, however, there may be minor ** SPOILERS ** below. (You may not want to read below if you haven't read the entire book yet.)
The author's "twist" at the end was one that I had suspected all along. I haven't read others' reviews here (yet--I wanted to write my own review first) but I suspect that other readers probably will see this coming as well. Still, that wasn't a negative. The big distraction for me was the surprise that Ellie got (regarding Coop) near the end. I think the book would've been just fine without this distracting secondary story line. I don't know that it took anything away, but I don't know that it added anything either, at least for me.
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If you liked My Sisters Keeper, you will like Plain Truth by Molly H (Chandler, AZ USA) 4 Stars
September 30, 2009
This is my first review, so bare with me if it is not as "professional" as some of the others! My Sister's Keeper was my first Jodi Picoult Book and like most, I really enjoyed it. So Plain Truth was my next pick in Picoult's collection. In general, religious, political and legal topics interest me, and a murder story taking place in Amish Country was right up my ally! I gained a new understanding and respect for the Amish Culture, by being intrigued by the "murder mystery" that unfolds. The pace and writing style is very similar to that of My Sister's Keeper. There were a few times when I thought things were a little slow, or I got lost in the narration of the story. The diversity of characters involved in the story should allow most any one to relate to at least one of the characterless. Overall, I thought this was a great book and I look forward to my next Picoult pick!
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Good story, not as quick paced or as deep as some of her others by R. Vu  3 Stars
September 11, 2009
This is the fifth Picoult I've read, and 19 Minutes and Sisters Keeper are the best of the five.
This one has quite a bit of repetition and isn't quite as believable as some of the others, but definitely worth reading.
Characters are solid- especially Ellie, the lead. She's a strong woman, but would have liked to know more about her past to understand a bit more about her in the context of the relationships within the story line.
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A great read by Delia Bradshaw (Buffalo NY USA) 4 Stars
September 09, 2009
As usual, Jodi Picoult did not disappoint me with this book. It was a fine addition to her other works. A great read!
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Really? You must be kidding! by Laura Deel  2 Stars
September 03, 2009
SPOILERS COMING!
I mostly enjoyed this book until the end. I agree with the readers that there were lots of problems prior to that but I was willing to overlook them because I enjoyed the basic storyline.
Some major things that borrowed me:
1 - The milk - Did Ellie ever stop drinking that unpasteurized milk? Seems to me that we would have at least seen her think about that herself and subtly stop DRINKING it! And f you were a good prosecutor, you might have brought that up. I mean, you have a defense attorney who is pregnant basing her defense on the fact that the unpasteurized milk "did it". If you were the prosecutor, wouldn't it have occurred to you to mention that it can't be that bad if the defense attorney is drinking it herself? And then Ellie almost miscarries it and we're still not talking about it? This was just blatant disregard for reality.
2 - The examination - The whole scene where Ellie was talking to Coop about her rather than Katie. Not buying that either. Come on, people don't get that caught up in the moment in front of that many people.
3 - The motive - And here's where I lost all ability to like this book. So we have a mother who kills her grandchild so that she doesn't lose her child. Interesting except that the actions of the mother after that point don't really support that she'd go to great lengths to keep her child or even really help her. Your daughter needs someone to speak for her so she can be released on bail and be with you rather than stay in a courthouse for 6-12 months waiting for trial. Not willing to do that! Your daughter needs your support as she goes on trial for her life. Not willing to go to court that day! Oh and let's not forget that part about being on trial for her life. She's almost convicted and you say and do nothing?!?! When you know you have the evidence to keep her home? I get that Sarah would still be separated from her if she goes to jail and Katie doesn't. But still?!?! You'll commit murder for your daughter but not confess to it when she's about to go down for it? Just can't sell all this to me. There were clues all along that her mother knew she was pregnant and was probably at the least aware of what happened. But the motive just falls flat.
4 - The motive II - At what point is Katie kicked out of her life for being an unwed mother? Aaron lets her live there, he even lets Ellie live there. Yeah, he grumbles about some things like the inverter and makes threats. But at no point does it even come up that he thinks Katie should live somewhere else. And this isn't just an unwed mother anymore - this is an unwed mother with a murdered baby. So even if you buy the inconsistencies in Sarah's actions with regard to her motive, where's the real threat about actually losing Katie? Oh, that's right, Jacob was kicked out so Katie will be too. For one, Jacob didn't ask for forgiveness, Katie would have. Jacob didn't want to stay Plain, Katie did. It's not really the same. But even if it was, it took what, like 5 seconds for Aaron to forgive Jacob once he showed up and tried?
There is just no justification to Sarah doing what she did. I would have been fine if the baby just died of natural causes and that was the end of it. Don't make up a surprise twist ending just because you can. We don't all need a shock, just a good story will do.
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What does it mean to be a good mother?
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