When a platypus wanders into a zoo one day, the animals want to know why he should be allowed to join them.

Since the first time he humiliated her in middle school, Mishti has never seen Vikram as anything but an arrogant bully-gorgeous, but a bully just the same. Despite the fact that they attend the same high school, she's managed to avoid him after all, it's not like they run in the same social circles. But the year before graduation, their English teacher assigns Mishti and Vikram to a group project along with Saahil, Mishti's crush. The timing couldn't be worse...because this project has the potential to make or break Mishti's high school career. To get into New York University, her dream college, Mishti has to make this trio work. As they're forced to spend time together, Mishti is prepared for Vikram to be a lot of things-irresponsible, lazy, rude-but the last thing she expects is to like him. But with a history of hurt to get over, and a perfect guy like Saahil vying for her attention, will Mishti be able to trust Vikram with her heart again?

Hoping to revitalize her lackluster existence by taking a job as a caregiver for a married woman with ALS, college student Bec finds herself profoundly moved by her relationship with her employer, with whom she experiences unanticipated life changes.

"In this book the philosophers Steve Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro will explain why bad thinking happens to good people. Why is it, they ask, that so large a segment of public can go so wrong in both how they come to form the opinions they do and how they fail to appreciate the moral consequences of acting on them."--Publisher's description.

“I hope no one reads this and expects an apology—they won't get one. I hope no one wants me to feel ashamed of my life—I don't. The best years of my life came while I lived the lifestyle of a biker. The best money I had ever made came from doing contract hits for Tony Martinelli, Toledo’s Mafia Crime Boss. What you are about to read is a chronicle of events during my life of crime and recorded by my daughter. Specific names, dates, and locations have been omitted for obvious reasons.” Mikey Thomas—Hit Man for the Mob