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1) Gossip
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English
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"A gifted storyteller...her characters are intelligent, brave, and witty...human and real."
-Susan Isaacs, New York Times Book Review
The critically acclaimed author of Good-bye and Amen, Leeway Cottage, and More Than You Know, Beth Gutcheon returns with Gossip, a sharply perceptive and emotionally resonant novel about the power of knowing things about others, the consequences of rumor, and the unexpected price of friendship. A story set among the...
2) La mala hora
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Español
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En La mala hora, Gabriel García Márquez construye un inolvidable apólogo sobre la violencia colectiva.
Las mejores obras de Gabriel García Márquez disponibles en formato audiolibro.
Al pueblo ha llegado «la mala hora» de los campesinos, la hora de la desgracia. La comarca ha sido «pacificada» después de tanta guerra civil. Han ganado los conservadores, que se dedican a perseguir cruel y
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A friendship is tested in this "thrilling" page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand (Us Weekly).
Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails...
Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails...
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Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
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As the goddess girl of rumor and gossip, Pheme prides herself on being "in the know" until she is caught snooping where she doesn't belong. She is challenged to go without gossiping for a whole day--and is put under a spell to make sure she doesn't.
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English
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"What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? With great humor and insight, 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. Think The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in the suburbs with delicious turns of jealousy, infidelity, bigotry, and embezzlement thrown in for good measure. The Operator is...
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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...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Former high school queen bee Jennie Sue Baker returns home to Bloom, Texas, after her fall from grace. In a town that thrives on gossip, Jennie relishes what it means to follow her heart, find real new friends, and finally be herself--regardless of all the lying town chatter"--
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English
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"Susan Napier's family once lived on the success of the high-end restaurants founded by her late grandfather. But bad luck and worse management has brought the business to the edge of financial ruin. Now it's up to Susan to save the last remaining restaurant: Elliot's, the flagship in Edinburgh. But what awaits Susan in the charming city of Auld Reekie is more than she bargained for. Chris Baker, her grandfather's former protégé - and her ex-boyfriend...
10) Trouble talk
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Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Maya gets help from a school counselor when the new student she has tried to befriend upsets her, as she has other students, by spreading rumors, saying hurtful things, and sharing information that is not hers to share.
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English
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"From well-loved women's fiction writer Kristyn Kusek Lewis comes a breakout novel about a woman moving her family to her husband's small old-money community and discovering that sometimes, the best way to find yourself is to uncover what everyone around you is hiding"--Provided by the publisher.
14) After the fall
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Told from two viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Raychel relies on the support of her overachieving best friend Matt while secretly sleeping with his brother Andrew, and Matt tries to play hero and hide how much he loves her.
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2012
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English
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"Astrid Jones copes with her small town's gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that she's sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe they'll know what to do with it. Maybe it'll make them happy. Maybe they'll need it. Her mother doesn't want it, her father's always stoned, her perfect sister's too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love...
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