Tiffany Baker

"A spellbindingly woven tale about a girl who grows physically and emotionally beyond her small town's wildest expectations"--Provided by publisher

A Novel

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake. June McAllister is the wife of the local mill owner and undisputed first lady in town. But the Snow family, a group of itinerant ne'er-do-wells who live on a decrepit and cursed property, have brought her--and the town--nothing but grief. June will do anything to cover up a dark secret she discovers after the crash, one that threatens to upend her picture-perfect life, even if it means driving the Snow family out of town. But she has never gone up against a force as fierce as the young Mercy Snow. Mercy is determined to protect her rebellious brother, whom the town blames for the accident, despite his innocence. And she has a secret of her own. When an old skeleton is discovered not far from the crash, it beckons Mercy to solve a mystery buried deep within the town's past.

Mercy Snow

When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated--Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers. Serena Jane's beauty proves to be her greatest blessing and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. Though they have long been the pillars of the community, the earliest Robert Morgan married the town witch, Tabitha Dyerson, and the location of her fabled shadow book--containing mysterious secrets for healing and darker powers--has been the subject of town gossip ever since. Bob Bob Morgan, one of Truly's biggest tormentors, does the unthinkable to claim the prize of Serena Jane, and changes the destiny of all Aberdeen from there on. When Serena Jane flees town and a loveless marriage to Bob Bob, it is Truly who must become the woman of a house that she did not choose and mother to her eight-year-old nephew Bobbie. Truly's brother-in-law is relentless and brutal; he criticizes her physique and the limitations of her health as a result, and degrades her more than any one human could bear. It is only when Truly finds her calling--the ability to heal illness with herbs and naturopathic techniques--hidden within the folds of Robert Morgan's family quilt, that she begins to regain control over her life and herself. Unearthed family secrets, however, will lead to the kind of betrayal that eventually break the Morgan family apart forever, but Truly's reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibility of love in unexpected places.

Two sisters in Cape Cod fight over the town's wealthiest bachelor as they learn about life, love and family history in this novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County.

The Gilly Salt Sisters

The little giant of Aberdeen County

La ragazza gigante della contea di Aberdeen

Dicembre sta per arrivare e un vento freddo ha ricominciato a soffiare sul piccolo paese di Prospect, a Cape Cod. Claire conosce bene quel vento capace di alimentare il fuoco e sa che niente è cambiato da molti anni prima. Le pare ancora di essere lì, intorno al falò, insieme a sua sorella Joanna: aveva solo sei anni quando per la prima volta ha sentito le parole del fuoco, e ha previsto il futuro secondo un antico dono trasmesso di generazione in generazione fra le donne della famiglia Gilly. Un'arte antica ma anche una terribile maledizione, secondo gli abitanti del paese. Tutti le considerano streghe e uniche colpevoli di un maleficio che da anni si abbatte sugli uomini della famiglia, vittime di strani incidenti, come Henry, il gemello di Joanna, scomparso a soli otto anni.

Le parole lontane del fuoco

Zwei verfeindete Schwestern und ein geheimnisvolles Familienerbe Seit Generationen ist die Salzfarm an der Küste Neuenglands im Besitz der Frauen der Familie Gilly. Auf diesem entlegenen Fleckchen Erde wachsen auch die beiden Schwestern Jo und Claire auf, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Während Jo, eine spröde Einzelgängerin, sich der Tradition und dem Gilly-Salz zutiefst verbunden fühlt, wünscht sich Claire nichts sehnlicher, als endlich die Salzfelder und das Gerede der anderen hinter sich zu lassen – denn den Gilly-Frauen und ihrem Salz, so wird hinter vorgehaltener Hand gemunkelt, sagt man magische Kräfte nach ...

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