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Navigating College

A Handbook on Self Advocacy

by Jim Sinclair, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Melody Latimer ...

Leaving high school and going to college is complicated for everyone. But if you're a student on the autism spectrum who is about to enter higher education for the first time, it might be a little bit more complicated for you. Maybe you're worried about getting accommodations, getting places on time, or dealing with sensory issues in a new environment. Maybe you could use some advice on how to ... Read more

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Leaving high school and going to college is complicated for everyone. But if you're a student on the autism spectrum who is about to enter higher education for the first time, it might be a little bit more complicated for you. Maybe you're worried about getting accommodations, getting places on time, or dealing with sensory issues in a new environment. Maybe you could use some advice on how to
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The Job

An American Novel

by Sinclair Lewis ...

Narrated by Jim Seybert ...

Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women.Despite the traditional expectations of marriage placed on Una Golden in her small Pennsylvania town, she travels to New York to work due to a family illness. But once there, Una discovers a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate.However, ... Read more

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The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women.Despite the traditional expectations of marriage placed on Una Golden in her small Pennsylvania town, she travels to New York to work due to a family illness. But once there, Una discovers a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate.However,
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The Modernists

The top ten modernist short stories

by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Booth Tarkington, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Damon Runyon, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, Joseph Conrad, Katherine Mansfield, Sinclair Lewis ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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Modernist Short Stories

The literary movement influenced by sources such as Nietzsche, Darwin & Einstein

by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Booth Tarkington, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D H Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, Zona Gale ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

10 hours 31 min

Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be relatively simple. Choose a theme, choose an author, choose a story. But some themes can be a little baffling. Modernism is a lovely bright term that should do exactly what it says on the cover. Yet the authors and stories themselves can be baffling in some respects or streamlined and clean lined words in another. Definitions of ... Read more

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Grouping together works by various authors into a theme should be relatively simple. Choose a theme, choose an author, choose a story. But some themes can be a little baffling. Modernism is a lovely bright term that should do exactly what it says on the cover. Yet the authors and stories themselves can be baffling in some respects or streamlined and clean lined words in another. Definitions of
... Read more
Caring for Abused and Neglected Children

Making the Right Decisions for Reunification or Long-Term Care

by Nina Biehal, Jim Wade, Nicola Farrelly, Ian Sinclair ...

Series series Safeguarding Children Across Services
The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.This book examines the long-term consequences of this decision for children who entered public care for abuse or neglect. It compares the experiences and progress of children who remained in care or returned to their birth ... Read more

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The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.This book examines the long-term consequences of this decision for children who entered public care for abuse or neglect. It compares the experiences and progress of children who remained in care or returned to their birth
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Arrowsmith (Unabridged)

by Sinclair Lewis ...

Narrated by AI Marcus ...

Unabridged

17 hours 43 min

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Martin Arrowsmith, the titular protagonist, grows up in a small Midwestern town where he wants to become a doctor. At medical school he meets an abrasive but brilliant professor, Gottlieb, who becomes his mentor. As Arrowsmith completes his training he begins a career practicing medicine. But, echoing Lewis’s Main Street, smalltown life ... Read more

$2.99 USD

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Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Martin Arrowsmith, the titular protagonist, grows up in a small Midwestern town where he wants to become a doctor. At medical school he meets an abrasive but brilliant professor, Gottlieb, who becomes his mentor. As Arrowsmith completes his training he begins a career practicing medicine. But, echoing Lewis’s Main Street, smalltown life
... Read more

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The Rise of Silas Lapham

by William Dean Howells ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

12 hours 2 min

Howells’ best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners.After garnering a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position. The consequences of this endeavor are both humorous and tragic as the greedy Silas brings his company ... Read more

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Howells’ best-known work and a subtle classic of its time, The Rise of Silas Lapham is an elegant tale of Boston society and manners.After garnering a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston in order to improve his social position. The consequences of this endeavor are both humorous and tragic as the greedy Silas brings his company
... Read more

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Tiny Prisoners

Two siblings trapped in a world of abuse. One woman determined to free them

by Maggie Hartley ...

Series Book 4 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a terrifying world of abuse, violence and neglect.Maggie soon realises that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take ... Read more

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Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a terrifying world of abuse, violence and neglect.Maggie soon realises that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take
... Read more

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The Little Ghost Girl

Abused, starved and neglected, little Ruth is desperate for someone to love her

by Maggie Hartley ...

Series Book 5 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things that no 11-year-old should have to, that she's been conditioned to 'see no evil, speak no evil'. Ruth is in desperate need of help, but can Maggie get through to her and unlock the harrowing secret she carries?Through love ... Read more

$4.99 USD

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Ruth was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Ruth had seen and experienced things that no 11-year-old should have to, that she's been conditioned to 'see no evil, speak no evil'. Ruth is in desperate need of help, but can Maggie get through to her and unlock the harrowing secret she carries?Through love
... Read more

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Who Will Love Me Now?

Neglected, unloved and rejected, can Maggie help a little girl desperate for a home to call her own?

by Maggie Hartley ...

Series Book 1 - A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
The Sunday Times BestsellerAt just ten years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering. Neglected by her teenage mother and taken into care, Kirsty thought she had found her forever family when she is fostered by Pat and Mike, who she comes to see as her real mum and dad. But when Pat has a heart attack and collapses in front of her, Kirsty's foster family say it's all ... Read more

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The Sunday Times BestsellerAt just ten years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering. Neglected by her teenage mother and taken into care, Kirsty thought she had found her forever family when she is fostered by Pat and Mike, who she comes to see as her real mum and dad. But when Pat has a heart attack and collapses in front of her, Kirsty's foster family say it's all
... Read more

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Taken

by Rosie Lewis ...

Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate.Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her ‘forever mummy’ ... Read more

$8.99 USD

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Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate.Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie’s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her ‘forever mummy’
... Read more

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Mother From Hell

Two Brothers, a Sadistic Mother, a Childhood Destroyed.

by Kenneth M. Doyle, Patrick Doyle ...

Kenneth and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.Though the home was dysfunctional and all the children suffered at the hands of their parents, Kenneth and Patrick were singled out for horrific abuse at the hands of their mother.Starved, beaten and sent out to steal, their story is a catalogue of abuse. It also implicates the authorities, who had pages upon ... Read more

$8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Kenneth and Patrick Doyle grew up in a family of nine children in Tullamore, Co. Offaly.Though the home was dysfunctional and all the children suffered at the hands of their parents, Kenneth and Patrick were singled out for horrific abuse at the hands of their mother.Starved, beaten and sent out to steal, their story is a catalogue of abuse. It also implicates the authorities, who had pages upon
... Read more

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