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It Had to Be You unveils the secrets behind the hot and sultry summer that a love triangle begins, why Serena really fled for boarding school, and how the legendary Gossip Girl column began.The prequel will undo some of the myths created in the eleven previous novels, so don't believe everything you've read thus far. After all, this is Gossip Girl.

Introducing Gossip Girl, a wickedly funny and risqué original novel about the provocative lives of New York City's most prestigious private school young adults. Gossip Girl herself is an anonymous narrator with the ultimate insider scoop on the inner-workings of this privileged society because she's one of them. Sharp wit, intriguing characters, and high stakes melodrama drive the action of this addictive novel that will make Gossip Girl the lit world's new "it" girl.

"It finally happened: we went to college. We started over. No one knows who we've coveted, what we scored on the SATs,where our parents live, or when we became debaucherous. We've learned new things, made new friends, and maybe even met the loves of our lives. We've changed. Or at least, some of us have. But old habits are hard to break-especially when faced with your former besties and former flames."

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep - sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn't fit into, steal our boyfriends' hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I'll be watching closely....

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge, fabulous apartments and go to exclusive single-sex private schools. We aren't always the nicest people in the world, but we make up for it in looks and taste.

Welcome to Cobble Hill. In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There’s ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state that she fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her skateboarding, ex-boyband member husband Stuart. There’s the unconventional new school nurse, Peaches, on whom Stuart has an unrequited crush, and her disappointing husband Greg, who wears noise-cancelling headphones - everywhere.

The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool - set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side, the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents. Gossip Girl is the ultimate in sophistication, scandal and luxury.

It's Chrismastime, and Blair and Serena are best friends again and up to their old tricks: partying hard and breaking hearts from Park Avenue to the Caribbean. Blair's mom and Cyrus are having their honeymoon in Salt Key. And when school lets out for the holiday, Blair, Serena, Aaron, and company head down there to blow off steam after their midterm exams.

Merritt Wenner has been self-destructing ever since the tragic deaths of her grandmother and her horse, and after an epic all-night bender she walks out of the SAT and disappears. Her parents, looking for a quick fix, ship her off to a residential equine therapy program. At Good Fences, Merritt meets Red - a failed racehorse and a terror in the barn. Red has never bonded with anyone, but Merritt is not afraid of him, which makes all the difference.

It's February and most cities are a cold, grey wasteland. But not New York. At least, not my New York. Our college applications are in and it's time to blow off some steam. Best of all, Fashion Week is just around the corner, giving us plenty of opportunities to get dressed up and go completely wild. And just think: the later you stay out, the quicker the days will blur by. See you out there!

La vie d'Olivia Waldorf se passe exactement comme elle l’avait toujours rêvé. Elle est la fille la plus populaire du lycée, contrôle son gang d'une main de fer et le beau Nate Archibald est son petit copain.

In the eclectic Brooklyn neighbourhood of Cobble Hill, the lives of four married couples and their children are about to flip from complicated to combustible. Mandy is so underwhelmed by motherhood that she's faking a debilitating disease to get the attention of her ex-boyband celebrity husband, Stuart. There's the unconventional new school nurse, Peaches, who Stuart secretly has a crush on, and her disappointing husband, Greg, who wears noise-cancelling headphones - everywhere.

It's time to fill out our college applications. Not applying to the Ivy Leagues is not an option, and not getting into them would be a total embarrassment. But I know a few girls who aren't going to let the pressure get them down.

Allt går enligt planerna för Blair Waldorf. Hon har blivit skolans populäraste tjej, hon styr över sitt gäng med järnhand och hon är ihop med Nate Archibald - skolans snyggaste kille och hennes stora kärlek. Helt utan förvarning händer dock någonting som gör att hennes så perfekta värld hotar att rasa samman. På skvallerbloggen Gossip Girl, som alla i skolan följer, syns plötsligt nyheten att Serena van der Woodsen är tillbaka på Manhattan. Serena och Blair hade varit bästa vänner innan Serena plötsligt försvann.

Dexter College is a small liberal arts college in the quiet town of Home, Maine. But it won’t stay quiet for long with this group of freshmen. There’s Shipley—blonde and beautiful, the object of envy and more than a little lust. Determined to assert herself and to shed her good-girl image, she buys cigarettes and condoms, because that’s what every self-respecting college girl does. Her edgy roommate, Eliza, came to Dexter to get noticed, and she has the attitude and the mouth to prove it.

När Blairs mamma presenterar sin nya pojkvän för sin dotter så är han inte alls vad Blair hade tänkt sig. Hon hade trott att den eleganta och framgångsrika modeskaparen Eleanor skulle förälska sig i någon stilig, världsvan affärsman. Vad Blair istället får möta är... Cyrus. Blair kan inte hitta en enda sak som är rätt med honom. Han är kort, tunnhårig och överviktig och så långt ifrån den bild Blair hade haft om honom som man kan komma.

Det er blevet tid til at skrive ansøgning til college. Kommer man ikke ind, er det simpelthen for pinligt. Presset er stort, men jeg nægter at lade mig gå på af det. Dette er sidste år af high school, og vi skal nyde det og sørge for at markere os. Vi har det fineste blod på østkysten – jeg er sikker på, at vi kan finde ud af, hvordan man både blæser og har mel i munden, præcis som vi altid har kunnet. Der er trods alt ingen, der gider være jomfru, når de starter på college.

It's that time again ... time to indulge in a spot of jealousy, betrayal and late-night bar-hopping. Everyone's back from a week of après-ski hot tub fun in Sun Valley, and cream coloured envelopes from the Ivy League are beginning to drop all over Fifth Avenue doorsteps.

Forget the tearful goodbyes, people, let's get on with the fabulous farewell parties! We're almost off to college, and these last days are like a perpetual New Year's Eve ball drop, total kiss-who-you-can-now insanity. So will everyone break down and spill their secrets at the last goodbye? I'll be there to find out, and I certainly keep quiet...'The last of the Gossip Girl series and the final farewell to the glamorous teenagers of the Upper East Side.

I Manhattans elit finns det inget viktigare än status. Det gäller att ha rätt vänner, stödja rätt välgörenheter och ha lägenheter och semesterhem på rätt platser. Viktigast av allt är dock att ha gått på rätt skolor - det är där de rika ungdomarna skapar de kontakter som ska följa dem genom livet. För Blair, Serena, Chuck och Nate börjar svaren komma tillbaka för deras collegeansökningar - men för några av dem ska det visa sig att pengar inte kan köpa allt.