A Little Something Different

A Little Something Different
Author: Sandy Hall
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250061776

The distinctive new crowdsourced publishing imprint Swoon Reads proudly presents its first published novel—an irresistibly sweet romance between two college students told from 14 different viewpoints. The creative writing teacher, the delivery guy, the local Starbucks baristas, his best friend, her roommate, and the squirrel in the park all have one thing in common—they believe that Gabe and Lea should get together. Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Unfortunately, Lea is reserved, Gabe has issues, and despite their initial mutual crush, it looks like they are never going to work things out. But somehow even when nothing is going on, something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. You'll be rooting for Gabe and Lea too, in Sandy Hall's quirky, completely original novel A Little Something Different, chosen by readers, writes, and publishers, to be the debut titles for the new Swoon Reads imprint!

A Little Something

A Little Something
Author: Susan V. Bosak
Publisher: TCP Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781896232065

A girl shares many experiences with her grandmother over the years, and many times the old woman gives her a small gift to help her remember their time together.

That Little Something

That Little Something
Author: Charles Simic
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156035392

A collection of over fifty poems by Serbian American, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic.

Davo's Little Something

Davo's Little Something
Author: Robert G. Barrett
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743548990

All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties-the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and murders. When a gang of skinheads bash Davo's old school- friend to death simply because he was gay, and leave Davo almost dead in an intensive care unit, they unleash a crazed killer onto the city streets. Before the summer had ended, over thirty corpses had turned up in the morgue, leaving two bewildered detectives to find out where they were coming from. Davo's Little Something is not for the squeamish. Although written with lashings of black humour the action is chillingly brutal-a story of a serial killer bent on avenging himself on the street tribes of Sydney...

Something to Remember Me by

Something to Remember Me by
Author: Susan V. Bosak
Publisher: TCP Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781896232027

For use in schools and libraries only. A girl shares many experiences with her grandmother over the years, and many times the old woman gives her a small gift to help her remember.

A Little Life

A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804172706

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Say Something!

Say Something!
Author: Peter H. Reynolds
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338355031

From the creator of the New York Times bestseller The Word Collector comes an empowering story about finding your voice, and using it to make the world a better place. The world needs your voice. If you have a brilliant idea... say something! If you see an injustice... say something!In this empowering new picture book, beloved author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day, have the chance to say something: with our actions, our words, and our voices. Perfect for kid activists everywhere, this timely story reminds readers of the undeniable importance and power of their voice. There are so many ways to tell the world who you are... what you are thinking... and what you believe. And how you'll make it better. The time is now: SAY SOMETHING!

The Impulse Society

The Impulse Society
Author: Paul Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1608198189

It's something most of us have sensed for years-the rise of a world defined only by “mine” and “now.” A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term fixes over broad, sustainable social progress; where individuals feel increasingly exploited by a marketplace obsessed with our private cravings yet oblivious to our spiritual well-being or the larger needs of our families and communities. At the heart of The Impulse Society is an urgent, powerful story: how the pursuit of short-term self-gratification, once scorned as a sign of personal weakness, became the default principle not only for individuals, but for all sectors of our society. Drawing on the latest research in economics, psychology, political philosophy, and business management, Paul Roberts shows how a potent combination of rapidly advancing technologies, corrupted ideologies, and bottom-line business ethics has pushed us across a threshold to an unprecedented state: a virtual merging of the market and the self. The result is a socioeconomic system ruled by impulse, by the reflexive, id-like drive for the largest, quickest, most “efficient” reward, without regard for long-term costs to ourselves or to broader society. More than thirty years ago, Christopher Lasch hinted at this bleak world in his landmark book, The Culture of Narcissism. In The Impulse Society, Roberts shows how that self-destructive pattern has grown so pervasive that anxiety and emptiness are becoming embedded in our national character. Yet it is in this unease that Roberts finds clear signs of change-and broad revolt as millions of Americans try step off the self-defeating treadmill of gratification and restore a sense of balance. Fresh, vital, and free of ideological, right-wing/left-wing formulations, The Impulse Society shows the way back to a world of real and lasting good.

Something for You

Something for You
Author: Charlie Mylie
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250765900

Something for You is a touching picture book about lending a hand and the gift of friendship, from debut author-illustrator Charlie Mylie, whom Brian Selznick has heralded as “a major new talent in children's books.” A mouse’s friend is sick. What can he do to help her? He’ll go get her something! But what? Something little? Something to share? Or something just for her? When his search doesn’t go as planned, our mouse realizes that the best gift to give is something he’s had all along. With expressive characters, sweeping landscapes, and spare text, Charlie Mylie’s debut is a charming story of the comforts that friendship can bring.

Radio Dog

Radio Dog
Author: Anne Iglehart
Publisher: New York : Gingerbread House
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1979
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

A toy dog stuffed with an AM-FM radio brings welcome changes to the community of stuffed animals belonging to the girl who won him at the fair.