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Include books by the same authorCarly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism
Arthur Fleischmann, Carly Fleischmann · 391 pages
The father of a child who was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two describes the intensive therapies that were pursued before Carly had a breakthrough at the age of ten, when she began using her computer to communicate.
Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian
John Elder Robison · 304 pages
In his bestselling memoir, *Look Me in the Eye*, John Elder Robison wrote with honesty and dry wit about growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, John had already developed a myriad of coping strategies that helped him achieve a seemingly normal, even highly successful, life. Now, in *Be Different*, he shares persona
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Kristine Barnett · 250 pages
The mother of an autistic child who was eventually recognized as a genius recounts her rejection of conventional advice from developmental experts and shares the strategies she utilized for tapping her son's potential.
Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son
Tom Fields-Meyer · 241 pages
"A heartwarming and hopeful memoir of a father's experience raising his autistic son. When his son Ezra was diagnosed with autism, Tom Fields-Meyer knew little about parenting and even less about neurological disorders. This intimate memoir chronicles his remarkable experiences of learning and growth from the time Ezra was diagnosed at age three to his bar mitzvah at thirteen. In that time, Ezra
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida · 186 pages
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this memoir demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know
Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind · 358 pages
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a
George And Sam
Charlotte Moore · 296 pages
To Siri With Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of a Machine
Judith Newman · 242 pages
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Daniel Tammet · 256 pages
All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa: A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism
Kim Stagliano · 200 pages
Kim Stagliano's electrifying and hilarious memoir of her family's journey raising three daughters with autism. In these stories, Stagliano has joined the ranks of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs with her ability to lay everything on the table--from family, friends, and enemies to basement floods to birthdays to (possible) heroin addictions--eviscerating and celebrating the absurd. From her lo
Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism
Jenny McCarthy · 213 pages
The remarkable story of one mother's fight to 'heal' her autistic son.On the morning Jenny McCarthy discovered her two-year-old son Evan having a seizure, her life turned upside down. From being the mother of an average toddler she was suddenly thrown into a world of turmoil. As doctor after doctor misdiagnosed his symptoms, Evan suffered many harrowing, life-threatening episodes. Then, one amazin
Cowboy and Wills
Monica Holloway · 279 pages
Thorn in My Pocket: Temple Grandin's Mother Tells the Family Story
Eustacia Cutler · 227 pages
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 155 pages
An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
David Miller · 256 pages
Chosen by a Horse
Susan Richards · 248 pages
**How a broken horse fixed a broken heart.** The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn't be corralled into her waiting trailer. But Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan's life. Weak from malnutrition, Lay Me Down had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous. Then fate brought her into Susan
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Conor Grennan · 308 pages
Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan’s remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.
Dancing with Max: A Mother and Son Who Broke Free
Emily Colson
Marcelo in the Real World
Francisco X. Stork · 316 pages
Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear — part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo's differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer . . . to join "the real world."
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
Alan Alda · 288 pages
One of America's most recognizable and acclaimed actors, the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on, after early struggles, t
3500: An Autistic Boy's Ten-Year Romance with Snow White
Ron Miles · 246 pages
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
John Grogan · 368 pages
The heartwarming and unforgettablestory of a family in the making and thewondrously neurotic dog who taughtthem what really matters in lifeJohn and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.Marley quickly grew int
Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism
Paul Collins · 256 pages
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert · 341 pages
This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cult