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by Andrew David MacDonald
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsA heart-swelling debut for fans of The Silver Linings Playbook and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
by Rhiannon Navin
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsFor fans of Room and the novels of Jodi Picoult, a dazzling, tenderhearted debut about healing, family, and the exquisite wisdom of children, narrated by a six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts, and the quietest voices speak the loudest.
by Judith Newman
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.
by Victor Lodato
Published Feb 2018
Read ReviewsA new literary novel from Weissberg Award winning playwright and PEN USA Award for Fiction winning writer Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy is a masterfully written story of a broken family struggling to stay together.
by Benjamin Ludwig
Published Dec 2017
Read ReviewsTold in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character.
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
by Scott Stambach
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsThe Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko is comic and staggeringly tragic, often both in a single sentence A grittier, Eastern European, more grown-up The Fault in Our Stars." Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child
by Monica Wood
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsThe incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house a friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family.
by Eli Gottlieb
Published May 2016
Read ReviewsFor fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes this landmark novel about autism, memory, and, ultimately, redemption.
by Neil Smith
Published May 2015
Read ReviewsHilarious and heartwarming, poignant and profound, Boo is a unique look at the bonds of friendship in what is, ultimately, a book about finding your place in the world - be it this one, or the next.
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
by David Almond
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsFrom master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, exquisitely written novel about a hidden-away child who emerges into a broken world.
by Vince Vawter
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsFor fans of To Kill a Mockingbird, The King's Speech, and The Help. A boy who stutters comes-of-age in the segregated South, during the summer that changes his life.
by Nathan Filer
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsWhat begins as the story of a lost boy turns into a story of a brave man yearning to understand what happened that night, in the years since, and to his very person.
by Ann M. Martin
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsHearts will break and spirits will soar for this powerful story, brilliantly told.
by Michael Sears
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsJason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He's unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big - there are ...
by Matt Greene
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsA brilliant and moving coming-of-age story in the tradition of Wonder by R. J. Palacio and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - this debut novel is written with tremendous humor and charm.
by Audrey Schulman
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsEvoking both Barbara Kingsolver and Andrea Barrett, this enthralling fiction, wise and generous, explores some of the crucial social and cultural challenges that, over the years, have come to shape our world.
by Emma Donoghue
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsTo five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world....
Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience - and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.
by Paolo Giordano
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA bestselling international literary sensation about whether a "prime number" can ever truly connect with someone else.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsAn enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptionsand a rich literary delight.
by Siobhan Dowd
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsWhen Salim mysteriously disappears from a sealed pod on the London Eye, everyone is frantic. Even the police are baffled. Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners. They follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their ...
by Matt Haig
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsA ghost story with a twista suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story.
by Cammie McGovern
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsAdam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, is discovered hiding near to the body of his murdered classmate. Now the police are relying on Adam as the only witness to an appalling crime. But he can't tell the police what he sawor what he heard. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has retreated into a silent world that Cara, his mother, knows only...
by Janni Visman
Published Jun 2006
Read ReviewsAn intense, tautly crafted novel of sensual manipulation and suspense that confirms the arrival of a fantastic new talent.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsUnafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.
by Dave King
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsA deeply moving and unforgettable first novel about the cost of war and the infinite worth of human connection.
by Margot Livesey
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsA couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly -- and perhaps irrevocably -- in this surprising, suspenseful love story.
by Patricia Stacey
Published Oct 2004
Read ReviewsA compelling and inspiring read which should be of interest to anyone who cares about the lives of children; and especially for parents and professionals who care for children with autism and other special needs.
by Clara Claiborne Park
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsClara Claiborne Park continues the story of her autistic daughter Jessy. In this moving, eloquent memoir, we see Jessy's progressive journey out of her isolated "Nirvana" into the world we all share. An honest and captivating story of emergence, perseverance, and love.
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