false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256081547m/3235139.jpg 3235139 14 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.<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR> 3269617 book 8 1 2009 The Little Giant of Aberdeen County total:1418|5:236|4:598|3:419|2:139|1:26| 1418 5133 2760 476 5 9 false false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 21:48:25 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 21:48:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 18:07:10 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 18:18:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 8 false true Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 19:18:53 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 07:48:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 7 false false Mon Feb 23 19:56:56 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 20:00:53 -0800 2009 "She never understood that love- especially that of a child- was the most necessary weight you can endure in life, even if it hurts, even if it tugs...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Aug 15 13:42:57 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 14:46:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 13:16:08 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 13:31:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false true Sun Feb 22 09:42:59 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 09:42:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 07:59:49 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 10:54:57 -0800 2008

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Born with the 'disease' Gigantism, Truly has felt herself an outcast in Aberdeen County for as long as she can remember - especially when compared to her fairy princess sister, Serena Jane. But when Serena Jane goes missing, Truly makes a...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3235139