![]() ![]() That search for the one thing that might “flip the switch” for a child with autism - or other conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or learning disabilities like dyslexia - drives parents to explore, research, experiment, and buy countless remedies in the hopes that something will cure their child. What if Matthew’s autism was caused by hypersensitivity to sound, and what if this one treatment improved his life forever? And how guilty would we feel if someday, some specialist said, ‘If only he’d had auditory training when he was six,’” Shumaker wrote in her 2008 memoir, A Regular Guy: Growing Up With Autism. “But Peter and I were already carried away by the wave of information we had gathered on auditory training…. Her son’s therapist recommended against the treatment, which had no research to back it. “I thought, ‘Oh, that’s it - he’s just sensitive to sound,’” Shumaker said. Laura Shumaker was struggling with her son’s autism diagnosis back in 1993 when she saw an Oprah episode in which a parent announced that her child had been cured of autism by using a “listening program.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hsieh confesses that, as a child growing up in Marin County, Calif., he was perhaps not always a model student. Hsieh's account of his life so far-so did his own low threshold for boredom and shrewd business sense. In "Delivering Happiness," Tony Hsieh, the 36-year-old founder and chief executive of Zappos, says that he had an epiphany at a party when a mysterious woman whispered: "Envision, create and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you." 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Social media influencer Summer Cartwright leads a very charmed life: millions of followers, the hottest designer and vintage clothes at her fingertips, a newly minted book deal, the coolest friends, and, until recently, the hottest boyfriend at her über-elite prep school. Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) Hardcover 24 Jan. Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds mask the darkest, and bloodiest, secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() What Kellie is going through and experiencing is entirely within the contours of her own life and her own experiences. It’s coming-of-age, but it’s coming-of-age through a perspective that’s quite minute and not world-shattering. But now it seems like he’s interested again.Īmy Spalding’s Ink Is Thicker Than Water is an excellent example of a true YA novel. After their awkward encounter last May, wherein he tried to get Kellie to have sex and she backed out, she thought his presence in her life was gone forever. 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Broke and desperate, Nova returns home to Blue Belle, Texas, where, by a cosmic twist of fate, her broody neighbor is none other than Ronan, the shiny new football coach everyone adores. ![]() But her hopes crash after an awful one-night stand.įast-forward two years. Scantily clad as a princess from a galaxy far, far away, she sneaks into a high-profile party to capture the attention of her favorite quarterback. ![]() When a mysterious girl shows up to his party, he feels drawn to her and makes her his…for one night.įormer beauty queen Nova Morgan is on a mission. But after losing his career and his fiancée in a car accident, he falls into a pit of grief and bad choices. Gorgeous, talented, and brilliant, NFL quarterback Ronan Smith has the world in his hands. ![]() Genres: Romance, Romantic Comedy, Sports RomanceĪn NFL quarterback turned small-town coach gets sacked by a Texas beauty queen in this swoony, passionate romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills. ![]() Beauty and the Baller by Ilsa Madden-Mills ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I picked up the ARC of Ghost House at BEA, thinking that I’d give it a try even though I’m not a huge horror fan. To stop Isobel, Chloe must push her developing abilities to their most dangerous limits, even if it means losing Alex forever… and giving the hungry dead a chance to claim her for their own. And she will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who threatens to take him from her. ![]() But the bond between them awakens the vengeful spirit of Alexander’s past love, Isobel. Until she meets a mysterious stranger…Īlexander Reade is 157 years dead, with secrets darker than the lake surrounding Grange Hall and a lifelike presence that draws Chloe more strongly than any ghost before. Spending time at her grandmother’s country estate in the south of England is her chance to get away from her grief and the spirits that haunt her. Age Group/Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy, Paranormalįrom the New York Times bestselling author of Halo comes the start of a beautiful and powerful new series.Īfter the loss of her mother, Chloe Kennedy starts seeing the ghosts that haunted her as a young girl again. ![]() ![]() ![]() In spite of so many stubborn lies, at every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and my servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men.” Perhaps in no other age have they manifested their grandeur more brilliantly, and in no other age has this grandeur been so horribly flouted. Each one has the incomparable taste in his mouth of his own life, and yet each feels himself more insignificant than an insect within the immense collectivity whose limits are one with the earth's. Though they are masters of the atomic bomb, yet it is created only to destroy them. 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![]() ![]() The Wizard of Oz is so beloved that everyone knows a lot of what took place on the movie set, including hearing about the fire that harmed Wicked Witch of the West actress Margaret Hamilton. ![]() There are women whose histories were completely new, and others who are ingrained in pop culture. Some of my favorite histories included the Las Mariposas sisters, whose story is tragic, but whose lives gave birth to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women every year on November 25th, and women such as Nzinga and Wu Zetian, who became queens and empresses against the odds, and Frances Glessner Lee, whose hobby created an entire program at Harvard and led to breakthroughs in forensic science-she was even the inspiration behind the character of Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote. Artwork ©Pénélope Bagieu, Macmillan First Second ![]() |