Made to Overcome - Chronic Illness Edition (Made to Overcome, #2)
by Chou Hallegra
Henry David Thoreau and Two Other Autistic Lives
by Gilbert Wesley Purdy
“Stand up, up, UP!” is the mantra of Surfers for Autism, an organization that runs surf events for children with autism, providing the opportunity to not only catch waves, but to become part of a supportive surfing community. It is also a message to all those struggling with autism: a message to stand up, no matter how hard it gets. Waves of Healing collects the stories of a group of everyday families who discovered Surfers for Autism in their search for hope, answers, and healing for their ch...
A Journey through the Mountains is a personal take at one man's mental illness, seen through the lense of a year half way through an undergraduate degree. This journey includes discussions with his head, challenges faced in class and on the 'net, and a never ending balance between sanity and the abyss, as anyone who has ever faced up to mental health difficulties will surely be able to testify to!
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZEHow do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? Nick Coleman found out the morning he woke up to a world changed forever by Sudden Neursosensory Hearing Loss. The Train in the Night is an account of one man's struggle to recover from the loss of his greatest passion - and go one further than that: to restore his ability not only to hear but to think about and feel music, by going back to the series of big bangs which kicked off h...