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• All the Little Bird-hearts

  Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria, 1974-

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  It's 1988, long before Autism was widely diagnosed, and Sunday Forrester is finally feeling seen when her new neighbors move in. What she doesn't realize, however, is that she has something they want: a daughter of her own.

• Autism Is Not a Disease

  the Politics of Neurodiversity

  Hare, Jodie,

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  Hare, diagnosed with Autism at twenty-three, argues it is time to redefine the politics of who we are. She calls for the recognition of diversity as part of natural variation, rather than a departure from sameness.

• Model Home

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  Moving into a gated community, bad and scary things began happening in the Maxwell house. Now grown up, the children are forced to return when they learn of their parent's unnatural deaths.

• Big Girl, Small Town

  a Novel

  Gallen, Michelle, 1975-

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  A chip-shop worker's coming-of-age in the post-Troubles years is upended by abandonment and growing tensions between local Catholics and Protestants.

• My Kind of Trouble

  a Novel

  Schwartz, Leanne,

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  A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy small-town librarian.

• We're Not Broken

  Changing the Autism Conversation

  Garcia, Eric, 1990-

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  This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also a love letter to autistic people.

• The Framed Women of Ardemore House

  a Novel

  Schillace, Brandy,

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  A neurodivergent, hyperlexic editor taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing.

• Unmasking for Life

  the Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically

  Price, Devon,

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  Price provides practical tools for Autistic individuals to embrace neurodiversity, develop key skills for authentic relationships, and create new ways of living, loving, and advocating for their needs.

• The Kiss Quotient

  Hoang, Helen,

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  A 30-year-old math whiz with Asperger's tries to make her love life as rich as her career by hiring an escort to help her with her lack of knowledge and experience in the dating department.

• The Winter Knight

  Battis, Jes, 1979-

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  An autistic student, the latest reincarnation of Sir Gawain, is drawn deeper into the family secrets and round table feuds he’s been trying to avoid while a Valkyrie tries to figure out who is murdering knights before the body count climbs.

• Always Only You

  Liese, Chloe,

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  After waiting years to make his move, Ren learns Frankie plans to leave the office to pursue a new career. But what he didn’t anticipate is how hard he’ll have to work to convince her to let him have his shot at winning her heart.

• A Room Called Earth

  Ryan, Madeleine,

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  Attending a party under the full moon in Melbourne, a young woman on the autism spectrum makes magical, extraordinary connections with the people she encounters, including a man with whom she pursues a rare intimate encounter.

• Cassandra in Reverse

  Smale, Holly,

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  After an extraordinarily bad day during which Cassandra Dankworth’s boyfriend breaks up with her and she is fired from her job, she wakes up the next day and has the chance to do it all again, differently.

• Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes

  Poems

  Boukaila, Imane,

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  A poetry collection where manifestos encounter poems and raps encounter essays.

• Azura Ghost

  Hansen, Essa,

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  One man and his sentient starship is all that stands between the multiverse and its total destruction.

• On the Edge of Gone

  Duyvis, Corinne,

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  In a shelter as part of a planet-wide effort to survive an imminent comet strike, Denise worries about her sister's disappearance and her mother's worsening drug addiction before she is invited to join a ship to colonize a new planet.

• Act Your Age, Eve Brown

  Hibbert, Talia,

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  When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.

• I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder

  a Memoir

  Kurchak, Sarah, 1982-

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  Kurchak writes of the detrimental effects of pretending to be normal, and an impassioned call to redefine what is considered a successful life.

• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  16-year-old autistic trans Silas is sent to a finishing school in 1883 after failing to escape an arranged marriage. Silas decides to expose the school’s darkest secrets to the world when the ghosts of missing students beg him for help.

• Adult Summer Reading 2025

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  Visit our webpage to learn more about the Adult Summer Reading Program, which runs from June 1 to August 31.