Author: Neil Simon
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: rumors
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-02-16
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0573691606
ISBN-13: 9780573691607

Farce / 5m, 5f / Int. At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden’s Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity. "Light, frothy and fun." - New York Post

Author: Ella Leffland
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: peace, rumors
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1985-11-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0060913010
ISBN-13: 9780060913014

Perhaps no novel since A Seperate Peace has so superbly captured the impingement of a world at war upon a safe and sheltered environment. The place in Mendoza, a small oil-refining town thirty miles east of San Francisco. The time encompassed is World War II, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor until the bombing of Hiroshima. The narrator and heroine of the story is the fierce yet enchanting Suse Hansen. In the intervening four years, we watch with compassion as Suse evolves from a tomboy who wishes to be a trapeze artist to a young person whose moral growth has been as remarkable as her blossomi

Author: Pearson Riley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: rumors, foreign
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2006-09-15
List price: $17.98
ISBN-10: 1425952178
ISBN-13: 9781425952174

Foreign Rumors ---- the third novel in the continuing saga of Cole Damon.The town of Mumford is held in a tight grip of fear. Fear of what the foreigner contingency that has invaded their rural community represents.Rumors soon begin to emerge out of this fear. The rumor cauldron of Mumford brews a concoction of delicious southern lore.Who are these foreigners? Where did they come from? Why are they here? What do they want? What are they up to?Rumors emerge from the local townsfolk explaining each and every question concerning the foreigners.Unfortunately, rumors have a tendency to skew reality

Author: Terry Ann Knopf
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: riots, race, rumors
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2006-05-18
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412805570
ISBN-13: 9781412805575

Are race-related rumors rooted in the personality traits of the individual? Are they a kind of "improvised news" for a community? Do they come and go at random or form definite, recognizable patterns? What role do the news media play in spreading rumors? These and other questions are treated in this classic study, now available in paperback, of how and why rumors emerge in connection with racial disorders. Included is an examination and critique of the three major models of rumor formation: the psychological approach, emphasizing the emotional needs and drives of the individual; the functional

Author: Robert Coles
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Keywords: worlds, separate, rumors
Number of Pages: 90
Published: 1989-10-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0877452601
ISBN-13: 9780877452607

Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: believe, spread, falsehoods, rumors
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0809094738
ISBN-13: 9780809094738

Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know the “pals” of presidential aspirants, dark secrets about public officials, and hidden causes of the current economic crisis, those who spread rumors know precisely what they are doing. They are sometimes able to derail political candidates, injure companies and reputations, even damage democratic governance. And in the era of the Internet, they know more about manipulating the mechanics of false rumors—social cascades, group polarization, and biased assimilation—than you do. They also know that the presumed correctives—publishing balanced

Author: Anna Godbersen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: book, luxe, rumors
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0061345717
ISBN-13: 9780061345715

True love. False friends. Scandalous gossip. Welcome back to Manhattan, 1899. As rumors fly about the untimely demise of New York’s brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, all eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her sister, Diana, the family’s only hope for redemption; Henry Schoonmaker, the flame Elizabeth never extinguished; Penelope Hayes, poised to claim all that her best friend left behind; even Elizabeth’s former maid, Lina Broud, who discovers that while money matters and breeding counts, gossip is the new currency. In this delicious sequel to the New Yor