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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

$10.99 USD

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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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

$19.99 USD

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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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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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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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

$16.39 USD

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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Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok

by Bronwyn Reddan, Leonie Rutherford, Amy Schoonens, Michael Dezuanni ...

This book examines the reading cultures developed by communities of readers and book lovers on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok as an increasingly important influence on contemporary book and literary culture. It explores how the affordances of social media platforms invite readers to participate in social reading communities and engage in creative and curatorial practices that express their ... Read more

$33.99 USD

This book examines the reading cultures developed by communities of readers and book lovers on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok as an increasingly important influence on contemporary book and literary culture. It explores how the affordances of social media platforms invite readers to participate in social reading communities and engage in creative and curatorial practices that express their
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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

$24.99 USD

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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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Saint Sebastian's Abyss

by Mark Haber ...

Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

Unabridged

4 hours 5 min

Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight toBerlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, the work that established both men as ... Read more

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Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight toBerlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, the work that established both men as
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Motherest

A Novel

by Kristen Iskandrian ...

Narrated by Lauren Fortgang ...

Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, Motherest is an inventive and moving coming-of-age novel that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and the particular magic of the female friendship -- all through the lens of a fraying daughter-mother bond.It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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Marrying the sharp insights of Jenny Offill with the dark humor of Maria Semple, Motherest is an inventive and moving coming-of-age novel that captures the pain of fractured family life, the heat of new love, and the particular magic of the female friendship -- all through the lens of a fraying daughter-mother bond.It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new
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Objects of Desire

Stories

by Clare Sestanovich ...

Narrated by Kristen Sieh ...

Unabridged

5 hours 52 min

**“A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment WeeklyFresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life**A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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**“A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment WeeklyFresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life**A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A
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State of Emergency

by Jeremy Tiang, Jeremy Tiang ...

Narrated by Chio Su Ping ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist ... Read more

$10.99 USD

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Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of being a Marxist conspirator. Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist
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Shoutin' in the Fire

An American Epistle

by Danté Stewart ...

Narrated by Danté Stewart ...

Unabridged

6 hours 54 min

**A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets**In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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**A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets**In Shoutin’ in the Fire, Danté Stewart gives breathtaking
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