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Welcome to the socially awkward world of Tom and Linda Peters. At the age of 47, Tom was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. A few months later, he married Linda. Follow this quirky, upbeat couple as they learn to communicate and work together, despite their radically different ways of seeing the world. These funny, true stories are dedicated to everyone who (despite their best efforts) has a tendency to blurt out...
87) Best buddies
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A boy with Down syndrome and his dog are best friends, but how will they manage being apart when the boy heads to school for the first time?
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A full-length account of the author's prize-winning New York Times story chronicles the exploitation and abuse case of a group of developmentally disabled workers, who for 25 years, were forced to work under harrowing conditions for virtually no wages until tenacious advocates helped them achieve their freedom.
98) True colors
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In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
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"These poems explore the haunted legacy of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, an medical institution at the heart of the eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century in America. The author, who has cerebral palsy, grew up in the shadow of the former Colony in southwestern Virginia, aware that, had she been born fifty years earlier, she would quite possibly been admitted there, and exposed to a variety of inhumane...