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Neurodiversity and College

A Parent's Guide for Autistic Students

by Jane Thierfeld Brown, Lorre Wolf, Amy Rutherford-Moody, Lisa King, Ruth Kukiela Bork ...

Help to Make the College Experience a Great One for Your Autistic Student!Sending a child off to college is a daunting experience for most parents, but if your child is neurodiverse, the challenge is magnified. Even students with excellent academic preparation face difficulties in higher education, primarily related to communication, social skills, and sensory-based issues.This parent-friendly ... Read more

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Help to Make the College Experience a Great One for Your Autistic Student!Sending a child off to college is a daunting experience for most parents, but if your child is neurodiverse, the challenge is magnified. Even students with excellent academic preparation face difficulties in higher education, primarily related to communication, social skills, and sensory-based issues.This parent-friendly
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Mortified

by Amy Rutherford ...

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized swimmer struggling to make sense of the world around her. Humorous and dark, Mortified explores sex, shame, and transformation and how we reckon with the traumatic experiences that have ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized swimmer struggling to make sense of the world around her. Humorous and dark, Mortified explores sex, shame, and transformation and how we reckon with the traumatic experiences that have
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Parties, Dorms and Social Norms

A Crash Course in Safe Living for Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum

by Lisa M. Meeks, Tracy Loye Masterson, Michelle Rigler, Emily Quinn ...

Illustrated by Amy Rutherford ...

The late teens and twenties are exciting times, but filled with potential pitfalls as young people navigate the transition into independent adult life.This handbook is filled with the information that young people with ASD say they want (and need) to know about alcohol and drugs, social media and online safety, relationship types and boundaries, safe sex, stress and emotional health, and ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

The late teens and twenties are exciting times, but filled with potential pitfalls as young people navigate the transition into independent adult life.This handbook is filled with the information that young people with ASD say they want (and need) to know about alcohol and drugs, social media and online safety, relationship types and boundaries, safe sex, stress and emotional health, and
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Summer of My Amazing Luck

by Miriam Toews ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

Summer of My Amazing Luck is Miriam's first novel and a favourite for many die-hard Toews fans.Welcome to Winnipeg's Have-a-Life housing project . . . better known as Half-a-Life. Meet eighteen year-old Lucy and flamboyant Lish, two of the single moms who live there. Lucy has no idea who the father of her son is. Lish has four girls, and though she says she doesn't want a man around, she still ... Read more

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Summer of My Amazing Luck is Miriam's first novel and a favourite for many die-hard Toews fans.Welcome to Winnipeg's Have-a-Life housing project . . . better known as Half-a-Life. Meet eighteen year-old Lucy and flamboyant Lish, two of the single moms who live there. Lucy has no idea who the father of her son is. Lish has four girls, and though she says she doesn't want a man around, she still
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Tides

by Sara Freeman ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and ... Read more

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Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and
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Girls Need Not Apply

Field Notes From the Forces

by Kelly S. Thompson ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

9 hours 48 min

This inspiring, compelling debut memoir chronicles the experiences of a female captain serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, and her journey to make space for herself in a traditionally masculine world.At eighteen years old, Kelly Thompson enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces. Despite growing up in a military family—she would, in fact, be a fourth-generation soldier—she couldn't shake the feeling ... Read more

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This inspiring, compelling debut memoir chronicles the experiences of a female captain serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, and her journey to make space for herself in a traditionally masculine world.At eighteen years old, Kelly Thompson enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces. Despite growing up in a military family—she would, in fact, be a fourth-generation soldier—she couldn't shake the feeling
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The Flying Troutmans

by Miriam Toews ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

6 hours 22 min

In this completely captivating book, Miriam Toews has created some of the most engaging characters in Canadian literature: Hattie, Logan and Thebes are bewildered, hopeful, angry, and most of all, absolutely alive. Full of richly skewed, richly funny detail, The Flying Troutmans is a uniquely affecting novel.Days after being dumped by her boyfriend Marc in Paris – "he was heading off to an ashram ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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In this completely captivating book, Miriam Toews has created some of the most engaging characters in Canadian literature: Hattie, Logan and Thebes are bewildered, hopeful, angry, and most of all, absolutely alive. Full of richly skewed, richly funny detail, The Flying Troutmans is a uniquely affecting novel.Days after being dumped by her boyfriend Marc in Paris – "he was heading off to an ashram
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Irma Voth

by Miriam Toews ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

6 hours 17 min

Miriam Toews is a master storyteller at the height of her powers, who manages with trademark wry wit and a fierce tenderness to be at once heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny in Irma Voth.Banished to a neighbouring farm for the sin of marrying a non-Mennonite Mexican, Irma Voth lives apart from the other Mennonites in her colony. Her new husband soon abandons her, and her only reprieve from ... Read more

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Miriam Toews is a master storyteller at the height of her powers, who manages with trademark wry wit and a fierce tenderness to be at once heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny in Irma Voth.Banished to a neighbouring farm for the sin of marrying a non-Mennonite Mexican, Irma Voth lives apart from the other Mennonites in her colony. Her new husband soon abandons her, and her only reprieve from
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Tides

A Novel

by Sara Freeman ...

Narrated by Amy Rutherford ...

Unabridged

4 hours 21 min

**A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022“I loved it.” —Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace"Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing." —Emma Cline"Irresistible... I read it in an afternoon but I'll be thinking about it for a long time." —Douglas Stuart, author of Young MungoFrom an astounding new voice in Canadian literature comes an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her ... Read more

$29.99 CAD

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**A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022“I loved it.” —Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace"Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing." —Emma Cline"Irresistible... I read it in an afternoon but I'll be thinking about it for a long time." —Douglas Stuart, author of Young MungoFrom an astounding new voice in Canadian literature comes an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her
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The Watermen

The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold

by Michael Loynd ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

12 hours 36 min

**The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal)“Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

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**The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal)“Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the
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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

by Carribean Fragoza ...

Narrated by Marisa Blake ...

Unabridged

3 hours 48 min

In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters are drawn with a sympathetic tenderness as they struggle against circumstances and conditions designed to defeat them. A young woman returns home from college, only to pick up exactly where she left off: a smart girl in a rundown town with no future. A mother reflects on the pain and pleasures of being inexorably consumed by her small
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City of a Thousand Gates

A Novel

by Bee Sacks ...

Narrated by Lameece Issaq ...

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min

Anovel of great humanity, compassion and astonishing immediacy, this uniquedebut portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank andthe irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A collage of narrative voicesand different points of view are woven around the murder of two young people,one Israeli and one Palestinian.Brave and bold, this gorgeouslywritten work of fiction ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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Anovel of great humanity, compassion and astonishing immediacy, this uniquedebut portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank andthe irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A collage of narrative voicesand different points of view are woven around the murder of two young people,one Israeli and one Palestinian.Brave and bold, this gorgeouslywritten work of fiction
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