If you liked Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet, you might like:
Spokane Valley Library Book Club selection for Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Bauby, Jean-Dominique | | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : a Memoir of Life in Death | | At the beginning of a weekend with his 10-year-old son, the editor-in-chief of Elle suffered a massive stroke, emerging from a coma a month later, able to move only his left eyelid. |
|  | Freisen, Jonathan | | Jerk, California | | The high-school senior is confused -- he has Tourette’s Syndrome messing with his body, the girl of his dreams messing with his heart, and a dead dad messing with his mind. |
|  | Haddon, Mark | | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | | A murder mystery of sorts -- told by an autistic fifteen-year-old, mathematically gifted but unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers. |
|  | Leimbach, Marti | | Daniel isn’t Talking | | Contrary to her husband’s insistent suggestion that she place their autistic son in a special school, she believes that he will speak -- but she doesn’t anticipate her marriage falling into real danger. |
|  | Lopez, Steve | | The Soloist : a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music | | Julliard student spends days on Skid Row serenading passersby, far from the concert halls he had imagined gracing before schizophrenia stopped his dreams -- until he’s "adopted" by an LA Times columnist. |
|  | Robison, John Elder | | Look Me in the Eye : My Life with Asperger’s | | He went undiagnosed until he was 40, being variously labeled as lazy, weird, and worse, sociopathic -- and he had to wait decades for the medical community to catch up with him. |
|  | Rubio, Gwyn Hyman | | Icy Sparks | | She’s set apart from her childhood classmates by her weird mannerisms and strange noises -- only learning as an adult that these are part of Tourette’s syndrome -- and others are suffering more than she. |
|  | Silver, Marissa | | The God of War | In spite of his 12 years, he’s the man of the house, tending to his six-year-old half brother, who has severe learning disabilities he believes he caused, in a California desert trailer camp.
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|  | Simon, Rachel | | Riding the Bus with My Sister : a True Life Journey | | When her spirited sister with mental retardation asks for her company on daily bus rides for one year, she learns to accept her at long last -- and to slow down and enjoy the ride. |
|  | Taylor, Jill Bolte | | My Stroke of Insight : a Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey | | Within four hours of a massive stroke, she observed her mind deteriorate to the point where she could not walk, talk, read, or recall any part of her life -- it would take her 8 years to fully recover. |
|  | Wood, Patricia | | Lottery | | His IQ is 76, but he’s not stupid, when his Washington State Lottery ticket wins him $12 million, and he finds he has more family than he knows what to do with. |
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