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Kings Park SEPTA
Seeking to Encourage Pride, Tolerance and Awareness
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Best Boy
by Eli Gottlieb
A middle-aged autistic resident of a therapeutic community where he was sent as a young child rebels against changes in his environment by attempting to return to a family home and younger sibling he only partially remembers.
Digital copies of this book are available on Livebrary and Hoopla.
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Borderline
by Mishell Baker
A cynical, paraplegic screenwriter with borderline personality disorder is recruited into a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland, receiving as a first assignment a search for a missing film star with ties to Tinseltown's darkest secrets.
Digital copies of this book are available on Livebrary and Hoopla.
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The Bride Test
by Helen Hoang
When his difficulties with processing emotions complicate the search for his bride, a Vietnamese-American on the autism spectrum is pursued by a hopelessly smitten girl from the Ho Chi Min City slums.
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The Center of Everything
by Jamie Harrison
Recuperating from a head injury that has scrambled her perception of time, a Montana native attends a family reunion before the disappearance of a beloved friend dredges up painful memories.
Digital copies of this book are available on Livebrary.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic, fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
Desperately wishing to be reunited with her abusive, drug-addicted birth mother at any cost in spite of finding herself in a wonderful foster home, an autistic 14-year-old struggles to make sense of her world by engaging in strict routines and avoiding the people who would love her.
Digital copies of this book are available on Livebrary and Hoopla.
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Icy Sparks
by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
After years of living in a children's asylum for having spontaneous jerks and spasms, Icy returns home and is quickly befriended by Miss Emily, who cares for her and teaches her the ways of life, transforming Icy into a new person and forever changing her view of the world.
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Keeping Lucy
by T. Greenwood
Forced by her powerful in-laws to institutionalize her daughter, who was born with Down Syndrome, a grieving mother turns fugitive in the wake of harrowing discoveries about her daughter's hospital.
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Maybe Someday
by Colleen Hoover
When she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her, Sydney, a 22-year-old college student, must decide what to do next, especially when she becomes captivated by her mysterious neighbor Ridge.
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Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer.
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The Other Mother
by Matthew Dicks
A teenage boy with an unusual disorder copes with the rupture of his family by viewing his mother in an unusual light.
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Piece of Mind
by Michelle Adelman
Unable to relate to people or hold a job after suffering a head injury in early childhood, talented artist Lucy is forced out of her protective Jewish home and into a New York City studio apartment with her college-age brother, where she struggles to adapt to life without a safety net.
Digital copies of this book are available on Hoopla.
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The Quality of Silence
by Rosamund Lupton
A beautiful astrophysicist and her precocious hearing-disabled daughter arrive in a remote part of Alaska to discover that the girl's father has been the victim of a suspicious accident, an event that prompts their dangerous search in the storm-stricken tundra.
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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
by Jonathan Evison
After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
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A Room Called Earth
by Madeleine Ryan
Attending a party under the full moon in Melbourne, a young woman on the autism spectrum makes magical, extraordinary connections with the people she encounters, including a man with whom she pursues a rare intimate encounter.
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The Rosie Project
by Graeme C. Simsion
A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.
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Small Days and Nights
by Tishani Doshi
Presents the story of two sisters caught in a moment of transformation, set against the vivid backdrop of modern India.
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Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
Follows Trudi Montag, a dwarf who serves as her town's librarian, unofficial historian, and recorder of the secret stories of her people, in a novel that charts the course of German history in the first half of the twentieth century.
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The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
Told in alternating voices from the present day and Nazi-occupied Poland, a follow-up to Before I Let You Go follows a woman's urgent search for answers to a family mystery involving her grandparents' wartime experiences.
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We Are Satellites
by Sarah Pinsker
In a world where you must get a new brain implant called a Pilot or get left behind, Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to stop this technology, which pits her against the Pilot's powerful manufacturer -- and the people she loves most.
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When We Were Vikings
by Andrew MacDonald
Discovering that her brother has rationalized unethical measures to keep them afloat, rule-driven Zelda follows examples from Viking culture to pursue a legendary life that tests the limits of her courage.
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Furiously Happy: a funny book about horrible things
by Jenny Lawson
A #1 New York Times best-selling author presents a memoir about the most compelling theme in her work: living with severe depression and mental illness—and taxidermied roadkill raccoons.
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Golem Girl: a memoir
by Riva Lehrer
The vividly told, full-color memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies.
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Haben: the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law
by Haben Girma
Documents the incredible story of the first deaf and blind graduate of Harvard Law School, tracing her refugee parents’ harrowing experiences in the Eritrea-Ethiopian war and her development of innovations that enabled her remarkable achievements.
Digital copies of this book are available on Livebrary.
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Look Me in the Eye: my life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
In an entertaining and inspirational memoir of living with Asperger's Syndrome, the author describes life growing up different in an unusual family, his unusual talents, his struggle to live a "normal" life, his diagnosis at the age of forty with Asperger's, and the dramatic changes that have occurred since that diagnosis.
Digital copies of this book are available on Livebrary.
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The Power of Different: the link between disorder and genius
by Gail Saltz
An inspiring examination of the connection between potential and conditions commonly mistaken as disabilities shares layperson stories and the insights of the latest neuropsychiatric research to reveal how specific deficits in certain brain areas are directly associated with the potential for great talent.
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Riding the Bus With My Sister: a true life journey
by Rachel Simon
The author describes the year she spent riding the buses of her Pennsylvania city with her sister, and how taking part in those journeys allowed her to slow down her life and develop stronger interpersonal connections.
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Sitting Pretty: the view from my ordinary resilient disabled body
by Rebekah Taussig
The disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty offers an honest look at disability and its effects on identity, love, money and self-worth by processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful portrait of a body that looks and moves differently.
Digital copies of this book are available on Livebrary.
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Year of the Tiger: an activist's life
by Alice Wong
Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, the author uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer.
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Breathe
After he is diagnosed with polio at age twenty-eight, Robin Cavendish, with the help of his wife Diana, beats the odds to devote his life to helping other polio patients.
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I Am Sam
A mentally-challenged man seeks custody of his young daughter.
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The Intouchables
A young man from the projects and just out of prison is hired by a French millionaire quadriplegic to be his caretaker, beginning an unlikely friendship between the two men.
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Mozart and the Whale
Inspired by a true story, a man and woman afflicted with Asperger's syndrome fall in love.
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Motherless Brooklyn
A private detective who suffers from Tourette's syndrome investigates the murder of his friend and mentor.
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My Left Foot
Dramatization of the life of Christy Brown, an artist paralyzed by cerebral palsy.
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Peanut Butter Falcon
A boy with Down syndrome runs away from his nursing home to pursue his dream of attending the school of his wrestling idol and becoming a professional wrestler.
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Radio
Based on a true story, a mentally-challenged student helps a school football team realize their potential.
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Rain Man
A young self-centered con-man learns how to love from the autistic savant brother he had intended to use.
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Gilbert is a young man, trapped in an eccentric family in a small town, with a developmentally disabled teenaged brother, an obese mother, and a house falling down around them.
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