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English
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Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
2) Unlocked
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Language
English
Description
Holden Harris is an autistic eighteen-year-old who is bullied at school. Ella Reynolds is the head cheerleader who befriends Holden but has problems of her own at home.
Author
Series
Jason Stafford novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Struggling to rebuild his life after a two-year prison term for unscrupulous choices, former Wall Street hotshot Jason Stafford is tapped by an investment firm to investigate the suspicious death of a junior trader.
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Language
English
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Myopic, narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3-year-old-son's diagnosis of autism, he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler, more romantic life with his old college sweetheart, whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in years. Reeling from Barry's departure, his wife...
7) Besieged
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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While checking on a colleague's daughter, former Delta Captain Jake Mahegan is on site when a school is attacked and an autistic girl is kidnapped, sending him on a rescue mission that uncovers a plan for a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S.
8) Stand by me
Author
Series
Family Is forever volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kym Knicely has been a caregiver, but now she is focused on her career and earning her doctorate in education. When she meets Charles "Chaz" Banks and his four-year-old granddaughter, Chauncy, who is autistic, Kym is attracted to the older man. Chaz is ready to take a second chance on love, but is needed in his granddaughter's life. When your faith is strong, love will find a way. -- adapted from back cover
11) Saving Max
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Max Parkman -- autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive -- is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder" --Cover, p. 4.
12) Left: a novel
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A 'haunting, sometimes harrowing' novel that examines the difficult decision a mother must make on behalf of her autistic child. Therese Wolley is a mother who has made a promise. She works as a secretary, shops for groceries on Saturdays, and takes care of her two girls. She doesn't dwell on the fact that her girls are fatherless, mostly because her own father abandoned her before she was born and she has done just fine without him. Even though...
13) Miracle Creek
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine-- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. When the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos' small community. The ensuing trial uncovers unimaginable secrets from that night-- trysts in...
14) The Rosie result
Author
Series
Don Tillman trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back in Australia after a decade in New York, and they're about to face their most important challenge. Their son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in, so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don to decide how much to guide Hudson and how much to let him be...
15) Bleak harbor
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Summertime in Bleak Harbor means tourists, overpriced restaurants, and the Dragonfly Festival. One day before the much-awaited and equally chaotic celebration, Danny Peters, the youngest member of the family that founded the town five generations ago, disappears. When Danny's mother, Carey, and stepfather, Pete, receive a photo of their brilliant, autistic, and socially withdrawn son tied to a chair, they fear the worst. But there's also more to...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking point. So Alex moves in with his merrily irresponsible best friend on the world's most uncomfortable blow-up bed. As Alex navigates single life, long-buried family secrets, and part-time fatherhood, his son begins playing Minecraft. Sam's imagination blossoms and the game opens up a whole new world for...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when they were kids. As adults, they've been estranged for years, until circumstances force them to come together to protect Rose's daughter. Ten-year-old Antoinette has a severe form of autism that requires constant care and attention. She has never spoken a word, but she has a powerful gift that others would give anything to harness: she can heal things with her touch...Antoinette's gift, though, puts...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University there lies a 400-year-old document that no one has been able to decipher. Twenty years ago the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith secretly placed a guard to watch over the document. The guard, Father Ronald McCallum, is overwhelmed when an autistic child visiting the library appears to read from the manuscript's pages. Finally its secrets will be revealed! Father...
19) This could be us
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be...
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Language
English
Description
"A missing woman receives a second chance at life, thanks to her billionaire husband -- but the consequences are deadly in this gripping psychological thriller ... Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's an icon of the tech world, the founder of a lucrative robotics company. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving...
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