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In their Japanese fishing village, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue and they must have the courage to battle ugly gossip.

All kinds of embarrassing rumors are swirling around TJ's class and mostly he thinks they are pretty funny, until he becomes the target of the gossip--then he needs to find out who started the rumors, and why.

To spread gossip, you need to know stuff and, you need to know how to tell it in an exciting way--but you have to be careful, since gossip is never nice, is the summary of the story.

Everyone is talking about Jennie Sue Baker and the mess she made of her life in New York. The former high school queen beeánd wealthy darling of Bloom, Texash́as returned home after all these years, riding on a common bus and bearing two bounced alimony checks. In a town that thrives on gossip, Jennieś fall from grace has shamed her mother, set the town buzzing, and caused old, jealous enemies to whisper in delight. They say sheś taken a job...

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.

"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the...

"When a single mother hears a rumor outside her son's school, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another--and now there's no going back. Rumor has it that a notorious killer, a woman who has been released from prison years after her brutal crime, is living under a new identity in Joanna's seaside town. So who is the supposedly reformed murderer now living in their neighborhood? Suspicion falls on everyone. As Joanna becomes...

Believing rumors that credit Miss Hearse, the new school nurse, with being a monstrous-looking, frightening personage, a young boy vows to do whatever is necessary to avoid getting sick.

New York Times best-selling author Sandra Dallas spins a moving, memorable yarn that transports listeners from rural Montana to 1940s Hollywood. Buster Midnight's Cafe is a compelling story of longtime friends, a shared past, and an act of violence that shatters innocence forever.