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"Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating...
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English
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Terri Rayburn is a girl with a reputation. She doesn't deserve it, but having grown up on the outskirts of Summer Hill, Virginia, she knows how small towns work. The only way to deal with vicious gossip is to ignore it, so she keeps to herself as she runs the summer resort on Lake Kissel. When she returns home from a short trip to find a handsome stranger living in her house, she smells a rat. Someone is trying to fix her up, and she has to admit...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Follows the friendship and support among a group of five women on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Dinah's favorite son and Avis's only daughter fall in love and marry. Over the years, as their commitment is strained by time and change, secrets surface and friendships alter ... having a shattering effect on all their lives.
Author
Series
Vampire kisses volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
Description
"When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman's body floating in the exact same spot where Paul's first wife tragically drowned. At first, it seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger....
7) The gossip
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a local woman, Mackenzie Laughlin goes up against a relentless killer who, targeting former high school classmates, has been waiting to teach them the lessons they should have learned long ago -- that gossip and popularity have a price, and it's time to pay.
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York -- she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success -- and their life changes forever. Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages, Brooke's world is turned upside down.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Greyhill, Virginia, refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't, just got a few new residents. When Bess Warner arrives in town with her husband Cole and their kids, she thinks she knows what to expect. But Bess quickly discovers that fitting in is easier said than done.
Greyhill, Virginia is a refuge of old money, old mansions, and old-fashioned ideas about who belongs and who doesn't. When Bess Warner...
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
INSPECTOR KATE MARTINELLI has worked the SFPD's Homicide Detail for nearly thirty years. She knows all about how a cop builds a case bit by bit to create a clear story from the scattered pieces of evidence. Until the day her fifteen-year-old daughter, Nora, happens to ask about an aunt she'd never met. Kate's kid sister died in the 1980s, a wild young woman who lost control of a car and hit a tree, end of story ... except it isn't. Because once Kate...
13) The operator
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a simpler time that was far from simple. In a small town, everyone knows everyone else's business... Nobody knows the people of Wooster, Ohio, better than switchboard operator Vivian Dalton, and she'd be the first to tell you that. She calls it intuition. Her teenage daughter, Charlotte, calls it eavesdropping....
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English
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"Everyone is talking about Jennie Sue Baker and the mess she made of her life in New York. The former high school queen bee - and wealthy darling of Bloom, Texas - has returned home after all these years, riding on a common bus and bearing two bounced alimony checks. In a town that thrives on gossip, Jennie's fall from grace has shamed her mother, set the town buzzing, and caused old, jealous enemies to whisper in delight. They say she's taken a job...
16) The memory box
Author
Publisher
Fine Line Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping domestic thriller, a group of privleged suburban moms amuse themselves by Googling everyone in town, digging up dirt to fuel throny gossip. Caroline Thompson, devoted mother of two, is relieve to hear her name appears only three times, citing her philanthropy. However, a delayed pag of insecurity prods Caroline to Google her maiden name-- which none of the others know. The hits cascade like a tsunami. Caroline's terrified by what...
17) I heard a rumor
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When the Madame X gossip column debuts in the Joyce Kilmer Gazette, students at Joyce Kilmer Middle School try to figure out who is behind it, which causes many rumors and distrust.
18) Good news
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the news of Canada Goose's newly laid eggs spreads from animal to animal, the facts become monstrously distorted.
Author
Publisher
Schoalstic Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Armadillo's habit of eavesdropping and then misreporting what he hears makes the other animals so angry that they find a way to keep him from overhearing their private conversations.
20) Snarlyhissopus
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Pelican's news about a "spottyhipppomus" in the jungle spreads from animal to animal, the facts become monstrously distorted.
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