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Eye Contact

Cammie McGovern · 312 pages

A young girl has been murdered and the only witness is a child who cannot tell what he sawIn the woods of a small town, Adam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, is discovered hiding near to the body of his classmate. They both wandered off from the school playground several hours earlier, and now the police are relying on Adam as the only witness to an appalling crime. But he can't tell the police what

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The Second Opinion

Michael Palmer · 376 pages

Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Border

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Rubbernecker

Belinda Bauer · 320 pages

"The dead can't speak to us," Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. Sometimes, only an outsider can get to the truth. Patrick had been on the outside all his life. Thoughtful, but different, infuriating even to his own mother, his life changes when he follows an obsession with death to study anatomy at university. When he uncovers a crime that everybody else was too close to see, he proves

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Some Choose Darkness

Charlie Donlea · 304 pages

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The Question of the Missing Head

E.J. Copperman, Jeff Cohen · 324 pages

Samuel Hoenig answers questions for a living. And as a man with Asperger's Syndrome, his unique personality helps him ferret out almost any answer there is. But his latest question is a rather odd one-- who stole a preserved head from the Garden State Cryonics Institute?

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The Bride Test

Helen Hoang

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By the Light of the Moon

Dean Koontz · 445 pages

Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller aft

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The Spider in the Corner of the Room

Nikki Owen

'My name is Dr Maria Martinez and I am - was - a Consultant Plastic Surgeon. I am 33 years old. Place of birth: Salamanca, Spain ... And I was convicted of the murder of a Catholic priest.' Maria is in prison. She says she's innocent and is fighting to clear her name. Because deep down she knows the truth better than anyone. Doesn't she? Maria has Asperger's - and no memory of the murder. DNA evid

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The Good Sister

Sally Hepworth · 352 pages

"Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom t

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Kristy and the Secret of Susan

Ann M. Martin · 146 pages

Thinking it unfair that her new baby-sitting charge Susan gets treated differently because she is autistic, Kristy decides to change that situation.

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The London Eye Mystery

Siobhan Dowd · 336 pages

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The Murder of Mr. Wickham

Claudia Gray · 386 pages

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Carry the Ocean

Heidi Cullinan · 376 pages

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon · 240 pages

This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched. On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. When Christohper decides to find out who killed the neighbour's dog, his mystery st

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The Uninvited

Liz Jensen · 323 pages

In the wake of a series of baffling murders committed by children, anthropologist Hesketh Lock investigates a scandal in the Taiwan timber industry and wonders at his stepson's odd behavior before making a shocking connection upon the death of his Taiwan contact.

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Harmonic Feedback

Tara Kelly

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The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr

Frances Maynard · 470 pages

"Elvira Carr believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. She lives at home with her overbearing mother, who has deemed her unfit to interact with the rest of society. But when her mother has a stroke, Ellie is suddenly forced to look after herself. She quickly comes up with an ingenious way of coping with the world: the seven social rules spreadsheet. Unfortunat

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Edward Adrift

Craig Lancaster · 307 pages

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On the Edge of Gone

Corinne Duyvis · 468 pages

"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--

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Rogue

Lyn Miller-Lachmann · 230 pages

An eighth-grade girl with Asperger's syndrome tries to befriend her new neighbor, facing many challenges along the way.

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Smart

Kim Slater · 240 pages

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The Regulators

Stephen King · 466 pages

The Regulators is a novel by American author Stephen King, writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances. Additionally, the

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Colin Fischer

Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz

"A boy with autism teams up with the high school bully to get to the bottom of a cafeteria crime"--Provided by publisher.

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