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Look me in the eye

my life with Asperger's
2007
John Robison recounts his struggles to fit in and communicate with others as he grew up, describing why he had so many problems relating to others and why he often turned to machines for comfort, rather than people, and explains how his life was changed when he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age forty.

This star won't go out

the life and words of Esther Grace Earl
2014
"A memoir told through the journals, letters, and stories of young cancer patient Esther Earl"--Provided by publisher.

My thirteenth winter

a memoir
2003
A memoir in which Samantha Abeel discusses her life before and after being diagnosed with the math-related learning disability discalculia in seventh grade.

Look me in the eye

my life with Asperger's
2008
John Robison recounts his struggles to fit in and communicate with others as he grew up, describing why he had so many problems relating to others and why he often turned to machines for comfort, rather than people, and explains how his life was changed when he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age forty.

Angel falls

a novel
2005
Dr. Liam Campbell, desperate to reach his wife Mikaela after an accident that has left her in a lingering coma, contacts her ex-husband, movie star Julian True, and then must deal with the consequences when she wakes up with retrograde amnesia, remembering nothing of the past fifteen years, including her marriage and children with Liam.

The journal of best practices

a memoir of marriage, Asperger syndrome, and one man's quest to be a better husband
2012
A memoir by a man who was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at age thirty, which discusses his determination to successfully manage his condition and become a better husband and father.

Tic talk

a 9-year-old boy's true story about living with tourette syndrome
2009

How to disappear completely

on modern anorexia
2013
Kelsey Osgood describes her decade-long battle with anorexia and explores the physical, internal, and social ramifications of eating disorders and subverts many of the popularly held notions of the illness.

Cockeyed

a memoir
2006
Ryan Knighton chronicles his fifteen-year descent into blindness, discussing how he adjusted to the disease that stole his eyesight, what he has learned about the sighted world, and how his disease has influenced his life and choices.

The rope walk

a novel
2008
Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.

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