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Illinois

Rules

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Wisconsin

A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism

The celebrity author of the best-selling Belly Laughs and Baby Laughs presents a frank account of her experiences as a mother of an autistic son, describing her efforts to manage the condition's symptoms while sorting through conflicting medical theories.

Louder Than Words

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#paperback #fiction #mystery #youngadult #autism #literature #bestseller #drama 

New York

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Lisa Genova

Indiana

Two women in Nantucket, dealing with their own separate issues of death and heartbreak, find solace in each other's friendship.

Love Anthony

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Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

An autistic savant with genius-level mathematical talents describes how he was shunned by his classmates in spite of his super-human capacity for math and language and offers insight into how he experiences the world.

Born on a Blue Day

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Mark Haddon

Iowa

Antoinette van Heugten

Massachusetts

Max Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worse—using drugs and lashing out. But she can't accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Dangerous. Until she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death. Trapped in a world of doubt and fear, barred from contacting Max, Danielle clings to the belief that her son is innocent. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son really a killer? With the justice system bearing down on them, Danielle steels herself to discover the truth, no matter what it is. She'll do whatever it takes to find the killer and to save her son from being destroyed by a system that's all too eager to convict him.

Saving Max

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Donna Williams

A personal account of one woman's battle with autism offers insight into the little-understood mental condition from the patient's perspective and describes her struggle to cope with her condition and attitudes toward her autism

Nobody Nowhere... Autistic

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Texas

The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy

WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE?

In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In the years to come Wakefield would be revealed as a profiteer in league with class-action lawyers, and he would eventually lose his medical license. Meanwhile one study after another failed to find any link between childhood vaccines and autism.

Yet the myth that vaccines somehow cause developmental disorders lives on. Despite the lack of corroborating evidence, it has been popularized by media personalities such as Oprah Winfrey and Jenny McCarthy and legitimized by journalists who claim that they are just being fair to "both sides" of an issue about which there is little debate. Meanwhile millions of dollars have been diverted from potential breakthroughs in autism research, families have spent their savings on ineffective "miracle cures," and declining vaccination rates have led to outbreaks of deadly illnesses like Hib, measles, and whooping cough. Most tragic of all is the increasing number of children dying from vaccine-preventable diseases.

In The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin draws on interviews with parents, public-health advocates, scientists, and anti-vaccine activists to tackle a fundamental question: How do we decide what the truth is? The fascinating answer helps explain everything from the persistence of conspiracy theories about 9/11 to the appeal of talk-show hosts who demand that President Obama "prove" he was born in America.

The Panic Virus is a riveting and sometimes heart-breaking medical detective story that explores the limits of rational thought. It is the ultimate cautionary tale for our time.

The Panic Virus

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Minnesota

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New Mexico

Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.

A tender, smart, and romantic YA novel from debut author Hilary Reyl, about an autistic boy who falls in love Martin is an American teen on the autism spectrum living in France with his mom and sister for the summer. He falls for a French girl who he thinks is a real-life incarnation of a character in his favorite book. Over time Martin comes to realize she is a real person and not a character in a novel while at the same time learning that love is not out of his reach. Praise for Kids Like Us: “The most original voice since The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime tells the most radiantly human love story since Eleanor & Park. Reyl's extraordinary YA debut isn’t just a book you read; this is one of those rare books that reaches in deep and writes you back.” —Margaret Stolh, co-author of the #1 New York Timesand international bestseller Beautiful Creatures “Martin’s childhood memories, such as his parents’ early distress at his diagnosis. . . blend seamlessly into the narrative, while Martin’s reflections on 'the neurodiversity movement,' and efforts to 'cure' autism raise thought-provoking ethical questions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Reyl movingly captures the point of view of a person who sees the world in a completely different way. Her writing is lucid and luminous, and the first-person narrative has a cinematic quality as Martin processes the world around him. Charming, thoughtful Martin is easy to root for, and readers will cheer as he triumphs over obstacles.” —Booklist, starred review “Martin’s been deeply loved if not always understood, and his memories, thought processes, and discussions inspire the kinds of productive reimagining that makes calls for inclusive neurocosmopolitanism more than wishful thinking; the book’s indebtedness to Proust goes beyond lyrical phrases to a thematic embrace of the slow savoring of the richness of human experience. In the end, however, it is Martin’s ability to move beyond “things past” to the possibilities that open up when you accept yourself and others that gives this wise story its resonance.” —The Bulletin, starred review

Kids Like Us

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The Kiss Quotient 

Dawn Prince-Hughes

North Carolina

My Journey Through Autism

"This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." So writes Dr. Dawn Prince-Hughes in the introduction to Songs of the Gorilla Nation. In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn traces her personal growth from before she was diagnosed with autism, to the moment that she enters the Seattle Zoo and becomes immediately fascinated with the gorillas. For her, gorillas were more subtle and less threatening than humans, since she could observe them quietly and continuously, separated from them by the cage bars. With each passing day, Dawn felt compelled to re-enter the zoo and get closer and closer to the gorillas. In one particularly touching moment. Dawn recalls the precise and magical instant when a gorilla first physically touches her, and she is able to emerge from her solitude and connect to a living being in a way she had never before experienced. Dawn sees her life divided principally into three parts: a life without song, learning the songs of the gorilla nation, and finally, how she can't keep herself from singing. In the first phase, she struggles with childhood and adolescence, constantly wondering why she is different from her peers, and being confined to periods of extreme isolation. In the second part, she finally learns to become a social being through her relationship with gorillas, and eventually expands upon this to finish her education and devel- op lasting love relationships in her life. Finally, in the last phase, Dawn confronts loss with the death of her best friend, a gorilla named Congo, who helped her make the leap from a life lived in isolation to one filled with love. This loss inspires her to start a family for herself. Dawn's evocative story will no doubt have a lasting impact on all readers, forcing us, like the author herself, to re-discover and assess our own understanding of human emotion.

Songs of the Gorilla Nation

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Areva Martin

Lynn Kern Koegel

Nevada

Standing up for Your Child with Autism or Other Special Needs

"THE guide for getting the best life possible for your child...invaluable."
-Dr. Phil McGraw

As an individual rights attorney and parent of an autistic child herself, Areva Martin shares clear, step-by-step instructions on how parents can assert themselves-with doctors, teachers, school officials, neighbors, or even family members-and get the best results for their child. Practical and inspiring, with personal stories from other parents of autistic children, The Everyday Advocate offers real-world actions that work and teaches parents the skills to become better advocates for their children.

The Everyday Advocate

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Ellen Notbohm

New Hampshire

Winner of an iParenting Media Award and Honorable Mention in the 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards! Every parent, teacher, social worker, therapist, and physician should have this succinct and informative book in their back pocket. Framed with both humor and compassion, the book defines the top ten characteristics that illuminate the minds and hearts of children with autism. Ellen's personal experiences as a parent, an autism columnist, and a contributor to numerous parenting magazines coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. Don't buy just one of this book- buy one for everyone who interacts with your child! Give the gift of understanding.
 
Helpful chapters include:
 * My sensory perceptions are disordered
 * Distinguish between won't and can't
 * I am a concrete thinker. I interpret language literally
 * Be patient with my limited vocabulary
 * Because language is so difficult for me, I am very visually oriented
 * Focus and build on what I can do rather than what I can't do
 * Help me with social interactions
 * Identify what triggers my meltdowns

 

Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

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Oregon

A Novel

One of Bustle's Best Books of 2020! An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young woman, whose radical perspective illuminates a new way of being in the world As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young woman gets ready for a party. And what appears to be an ordinary night out is--through the prism of her singular perspective--extraordinary. As the evening unfolds, each encounter she has reveals the vast discrepancies between what she is thinking and feeling, and what she is able to say. And there's so much she'd like to say. So when she meets a man and a genuine connection occurs, it's nothing short of a miracle. However, it isn't until she invites him home that we come to appreciate the humanity beneath the labels we cling to, and we can grasp the pleasure of what it means to be alive. The debut novel from the inimitable Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth is a humorous and heartwarming adventure inside the mind of a bright and dynamic woman. This hyper-saturated celebration of love and acceptance, from a neurodiverse writer, is a testament to moving through life without fear, and to opening ourselves up to a new way of relating to one another.

A Room Called Earth (ARC)

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Leah Scheier

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Florida

After a reckless night, the one person Rain has spent her life protecting may be the only one who can save her Rain has taken care of Ethan all their lives. Before she even knew what autism meant, she was her twin brother's connection to the world around him. Each day with Ethan is unvarying and predictable, until one night when her world is turned upside down by a mistake she can't take back. As her new romance with her longtime crush and her carefully constructed life begin to unravel, Rain discovers that the fragile brother she's always protected has grown into a young man who no longer needs her. And, for the first time, she discovers just how much she needs him...

Rules of Rain

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Kate Swenson

NATIONAL BESTSELLER



With her popular blog, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love



When Kate Swenson's son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life. She hadn't signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability.



At first, Kate experienced the grief of broken dreams. Then she felt the frustration and exhaustion of having to fight for your child in a world that is stacked against them. But through hard work, resilience and personal growth, she would come to learn that Cooper wasn't the one who needed to change. She was. And it was this transformation that led Kate to acceptance--and ultimately joy. In Forever Boy, Kate shares her inspiring journey with honesty and compassion, offering solace and hope to others on this path and illuminating the strength and perseverance of mothers.

 

Forever Boy

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Graeme Simsion

Virginia

The final installment of the Australian series beloved around the world, with almost 5 million books sold in more than 40 countries.

The Rosie Result

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Helen Hoang

USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang returns with a witty and sizzling new romance that shows how wrong you can be about someone...and how right they can be for you. To most people, Quan Diep is nothing but a surly-looking, underachieving playboy. The problem is he's not any of those things. And now that he's the CEO of an up-and-coming retail business, he's suddenly a "catch," and the rich girls who never used to pay any attention to him are looking at him in a new way--especially Camilla, the girl who brushed him off many years ago. Anna Sun dislikes Quan Diep almost as much as germy bathroom door handles. Or so she tells herself. She will never admit that she has a secret crush on him, especially because he only has eyes for her charismatic and newly engaged younger sister Camilla. Over the years, Anna has worked hard to overcome her OCD, but she'll still need to find a way to bury her anxieties and seduce Quan so he doesn't ruin her sister's engagement, and with it, a crucial real estate development deal. Slowly, Anna breaks down Quan's dangerous and careless exterior while peeling off her own tough, protective shell. But when Quan discovers Anna's true intentions, he's forced to confront his own hurtful past and learn to forgive, while Anna must face her greatest challenge: truly opening herself up to love.

The Heart Principle

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Rupert Isaacson

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A Father's Quest to Heal His Son

After his son Rowan is diagnosed with autism, Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, takes Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersect. This is the dramatic and heartwarming story of that impossible adventure.

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