Sarah Sutton crafts YA romance tales, weaving stories of teenagers finding love, occasionally with a touch of magic. Her creative process unfolds with her two puppies nearby, offering both enthusiastic support and delightful distractions.
The story revolves around the complexities of trusting a bad boy, exploring themes of love, risk, and the allure of danger. As the protagonist navigates their feelings, they confront the consequences of their choices and the impact of their trust on relationships. The narrative delves into the tension between attraction and caution, highlighting the challenges that arise when one decides to embrace the unpredictable nature of a bad boy's lifestyle.
Fake dating the quarterback unexpectedly opens doors to a life filled with new possibilities and personal growth. As the protagonist navigates the challenges of their arrangement, they discover deeper connections and insights about themselves. The journey intertwines romance and self-discovery, revealing how stepping outside one's comfort zone can lead to fulfilling experiences and dreams. This light-hearted tale explores themes of love, identity, and the transformative power of unexpected relationships.
Facing ridicule after being voted Most Likely To: Marry A Math Book, the protagonist grapples with her identity and self-worth amidst the pressures of high school social dynamics. This humorous and relatable story explores themes of friendship, resilience, and the challenges of fitting in, as she navigates the complexities of adolescence and confronts the egos of her peers.
Broadening Approaches to Research and Public Engagement
110 pages
4 hours of reading
Focusing on the intersection of culture and science, this book explores how cultural institutions and their collections can foster climate literacy among the public. It emphasizes the importance of engaging with environmental issues and climate change, highlighting the role that the arts and humanities play in educating and informing society on these critical topics.
Is being voted Most Likely To: Never Have Their First Kiss by the popular crowd at school the end of the world? Probably not, but I'm still not convinced. Does it mean that I have to find someone to kiss to ditch myself of the label? No, but I do it anyway. Is choosing my best friend's twin brother as my first kiss the best choice? Ha, not in the slightest. But when he walks into his kitchen after midnight shirtless, inspiration strikes. Even though it's a bad, bad idea. Because what is supposed to be a quick, three-second peck of awkwardness in the middle of their dark kitchen turns into however many seconds of pure bliss. I'm talking the kind of kiss in a rom-com that totally would've made me blush. The kind that makes your toes curl. For my first kiss ever, Reed Manning isn't holding back. But now he makes it crystal clear: the kiss that was life-changing to me means nothing to him. He's already got his next girl lined up on his own list of Brentwood High's most eligible, and it's not his little sister's best friend. Except that kiss totally messed with my brain chemistry, and I find myself thinking about Reed in ways I never have before. In ways my best friend would hate me for. Even when I shouldn't, I find myself dreaming about the boy next door.
Exploring the tension between nostalgia and progress, this narrative delves into the lives of characters faced with pivotal choices that shape their destinies. As they grapple with the weight of their memories, the story highlights the struggle to let go of the past while seeking new beginnings. Themes of identity, change, and the impact of history intertwine, creating a rich tapestry that invites readers to reflect on their own relationships with time and transformation.
The protagonist navigates a seemingly perfect life filled with luxury and high expectations, embodying the ideal daughter through academic success and community involvement. Beneath the surface of diamond bracelets and country clubs lies a struggle with the pressure to conform to societal norms and parental expectations, hinting at a deeper quest for identity and authenticity.
Navigating the complexities of friendship and romance, this story explores the emotional turmoil that arises when deep feelings develop between best friends. As they confront their fears and desires, the characters must decide whether to risk their cherished friendship for the chance at something more. Themes of love, vulnerability, and the challenges of communication are woven throughout, creating a relatable and heartfelt narrative about the risks and rewards of falling in love with someone who knows you best.
It's all fun and games until someone catches feelings. Sophia Wallace is convinced her life is over when her high school cuts the journalism program. Without the elective, she loses her chance to intern with the biggest newspaper company in the county, and why? All because the baseball team needs more funding. To make matters worse, her boyfriend publicly dumps her at a party, which is mortifying. But the icing on the cake is when the captain of the baseball team and the most popular guy at Bayview High, Walsh Hunter, decides to be chivalrous. He jumps in, throws his arm around Sophia, and declares his undying love for her. In front of everyone. Suddenly, Sophia is thrown into a world of fake relationships and undercover journalism, and she realizes she's way, way out of her league. Good thing she's got the team captain to teach her how to play. But faced with choosing between saving her journalism class or her newfound feelings for Walsh, will she strike out or hit a home run?
Sleep problems are among the most common, urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over forty years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together. Offering tried and tested ways of helping parents work things out better with their babies when such problems arise, this new edition of Dilys Daws' classic work, updated with expert help from Sarah Sutton, frees professionals from the burden of feeling they need to rush to give advice to families, showing instead how to begin the challenging journey of discovering new emotions that every baby brings. It sheds light on the sleep problem in the context of a whole range of aspects of the early world: the regulation of babies' physiological states; dreams and nightmares; the development of separateness; separation and attachment problems, and connections with feeding and weaning. This much-needed, compassionate and well-informed guide to helping parents and babies with sleep problems draws on twenty-first century development research and rich clinical wisdom to offer ways of understanding sleep problems in each individual family context, with all its particular pressures and possibilities. It will be treasured by new parents struggling with sleeplessness and is enormously valuable for anyone working with parents and their babies.
