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If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
Zach Anner - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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"Hilarious and inspiring, Anner has made a life filled with fans, love, and Internet fame -- reminding us that disability is no match for dreams." -- People (Book of the Week) "Zach Anner is way more than an inspirational figure for anyone who has ever felt impossibly... |
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
John Elder Robison - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had... |
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My Brief History
Richard Dawkins - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing... |
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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Temple Grandin - Vintage; Reissue edition
Format: Book
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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible... |
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An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter
Paul Daugherty - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A father's exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own. Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought her home from the hospital,... |
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The Boy Who Could See Demons: A Novel
Carolyn Jess-Cooke - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Carolyn Jess-Cooke has written a brilliant novel of suspense that delves into the recesses of the human mind and soul—perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Lisa Unger. The Boy Who Could See Demons follows a child psychologist who comes up against a career-defining... |
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House Rules: A Novel
Jodi Picoult - Atria Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humour, extraordinarily organised, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger's. He is locked in his own world - aware of the world outside, and wanting to make a connection. Jacob tries to be like everyone... |
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Icy Sparks
Gwyn Hyman Rubio - G.K. Hall
Format: Hardcover
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An Oprah's Book Club selectionSet in Appalachia during the late 1950s, this acclaimed first novel chronicles a young girl's heartbreaking battle with Tourette's syndrome.Ten-year-old Icy Sparks already has one strike against her: She's an orphan. Life becomes even more difficult... |
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
Rachel Simon - Grand Central Publishing; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print]
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It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse... |
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