Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues
By: Rachel Schneider
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Our senses! Thanks to them, our brains are constantly flooded with information about the world arou…
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1. Transgression (City of God, #1)
By: Randy Ingermanson , R.S. Ingermanson , Randall Ingermanson
4.03
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
What if you were studying for your Ph.D. in archaeology and decided to take a break from your crumm… read more
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2. Garden of Madness (Seven Wonders, #4)
By: Tracy L. Higley
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The untold story of King Nebuchadnezzar's daughter For seven years the Babylonian princess Tiama… read more
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"Do not let the darkness masked as light take you prisoner."-Tracy L. Higley, Garden of Madness (Seven Wonders, #4)
3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
By: Robin Sloan
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and… read more
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4. Love's Reckoning (The Ballantyne Legacy, #1)
By: Laura Frantz
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege L… read more
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5. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
By: Allie Brosh
4.17
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to ex… read more
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- nonfiction
- mental health
"I couldn't even muster the enthusiasm to hate myself anymore."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"I don't just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
"We're going to play a different game now. It's called "who can yell 'help' the loudest and the most."-Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
6. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
By: Elaine N. Aron
3.85
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more
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- nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
7. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
By: David Mitchell , Naoki Higashida , K.A. Yoshida
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy … read more
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8. The Road to Roswell
By: Connie Willis
3.74
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more
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9. Light from Uncommon Stars
By: Ryka Aoki
4.06
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian … read more
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"Lindsey Stirling?"-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"I shall make you feel all the joy, the terror in loving who you are."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"A sandwich that is more than a sandwich. Coffee that is more than coffee."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
"When you rush, all you are doing is practicing your mistakes at a faster pace."-Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars
10. Dreaming of Flight
By: Catherine Ryan Hyde
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
An unexpected connection becomes the saving grace for two unlikely friends in a heart-stirring nove… read more
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11. The Librarian Spy
By: Madeline Martin
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A moving novel inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II.Ava thought … read more
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"I don't think I take compliments very well, Ava admitted sheepishly. "Most women don't. We always think we're not good enough." She lifted her shoulder, and the resignation behind it told Ava that ev…"-Madeline Martin, The Librarian Spy
12. Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
By: Jenara Nerenberg
3.84
Format: 244 pages, ebook
A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensit… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- mental health
"What happens when we stop pathologizing difference?"-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
"Many women latch onto language from popular psychology, such as "panic attack," when often they are instead experiencing sensory overwhelm."-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
"Despite what the words "attention deficit" imply, ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a challenge of regulating it at will or on demand."-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
"High stimulation is both exciting and confusing for people with ADHD, because they can get overwhelmed and overstimulated easily without realizing they are approaching that point."-Jenara Nerenberg, Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
13. The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)
By: Lindsay A. Franklin
4.11
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
Selling stories is a deadly business Tanwen doesn’t just tell stories—she weaves them into cryst… read more
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"Art has a way of revealing truth."-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)
"Being in love... well, that's the biggest kind of brave there is." "Why's that?" "Because you have to be strong enough to get your heart broken every day."-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)
"Most people’s lives were stories with mysterious endings. Mine was a story with a beginning I could never make sense of. It was like fifty different unrelated strands I couldn’t weave into a solid cr…"-Lindsay A. Franklin, The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy, #1)
14. Miracle Creek
By: Angie Kim
3.87
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
A literary courtroom thriller about an immigrant family and a young single mother accused of killin… read more
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"That was the thing about lies: they demanded commitment. Once you lied, you had to stick to your story."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Having a special-needs child didn’t just change you; it transmuted you, transported you to a parallel world with an altered gravitational axis."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Good things and bad—every friendship and romance formed, every accident, every illness—resulted from the conspiracy of hundreds of little things, in and of themselves inconsequential."-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
"Matt blinked - how long did that take? A tenth of a second? A hundredth? - then, where Henry's face had been, there was fire. Face, then blink, then fire. No, faster thant that. Face, blink, fire. Fa…"-Angie Kim, Miracle Creek
15. Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
By: Michael McCreary
3.78
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Slaying autism stereotypes with stand-up, one joke at a time. Like many others on the autism spectr… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
"Having autism is a characteristic, not a character."-Michael McCreary, Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
"I was diagnosed with autism at the age of five. I wasn't diagnosed as a comedian until much later."-Michael McCreary, Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
16. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
By: Devon Price
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- mental health
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
17. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
By: Hank Green
4.24
Format: 452 pages, Hardcover
April May and the Carls are back in the much-anticipated sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times b… read more
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"I read to occupy a mind other than my own"-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
"Often, restraint is far more remarkable than action."-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
"Your life is written on this body, and I love every piece of it."-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
"You can only pretend to be something so long before you become it."-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
18. Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
By: Clara Törnvall
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Varför skrev poeten Emily Dickinson dikter om havet utan att någonsin ha sett det, varför är Underl… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- mental health
"But deficits and disabilities only exist in relation to an environment where some other way of functioning has been chosen as the yardstick. An autistic person - or one with any form of otherness - o…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
"Yet the autistic woman is not masking with the intention of being deceitful. Her true self is invisible even to her own person. She is masking to fit in, and doing so unconsciously. Often, she doesn'…"-Clara Törnvall, Autisterna: om kvinnor på spektrat
19. Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters
By: Laura Vanderkam
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“An indispensable manual... Tranquility by Tuesday offers plenty of inspiration for a more serene l… read more
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- nonfiction
- mental health
20. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
By: Jonathan Van Ness
4.19
Format: 6 pages, Audiobook
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The tr… read more
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- nonfiction
"At the end of the day, the people we let in our space affect our ability to get to where we want to go, so if they're in the way of realizing your potential, it's okay to disconnect because you must …"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"I hope culturally we can continue to normalize the idea that being a survivor is so much more common than anyone realizes and we all deserve to be heard, but more importantly are deserving of a recov…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"My joy and my accomplishments existed, and so did the pain from my abuse. How can we feel one without the other? Joyful accomplishments exist next to painful memories. I found a lot of my healing whe…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
"You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn’t necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not o…"-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
21. A Planned Occasion
By: Angie Kim
4.28
Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition
A surprising gift brings closure for an elderly widow in a poignant story about grief, memory, and … read more
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22. The Pain Management Workbook: Powerful CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Take Control of Pain and Reclaim Your Life
By: Rachel Zoffness
4.09
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Change your brain, change your pain with this powerful, evidence-based workbook. If you’re struggli… read more
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- nonfiction
23. Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues
By: Rachel Schneider
4.07
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Our senses! Thanks to them, our brains are constantly flooded with information about the world arou… read more
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- autistic spectrum disorder
- nonfiction
- mental health
24. Cindersister
By: Hannah Joy Smith
4.71
Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition
The worst possible thing has happened. Priscilla’s sister has become the new duchess. Now, their mo… read more
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