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Label Me Perfect
by Jamie Poff
Jamie Poff is a nine year old boy with moderate autism. His parents were told at the time of his diagnosis to institutionalize him before they got too attached to him as little could be done to rehabilitate him. Today Jamie is a gifted third-grader who aspires to be a chef and a video game master. He has just authored his first book. Someone apparently forgot to tell Jamie that autism's challenges are insurmountable.
Join Jamie and his not exactly neurotypical sister Gina on this wild, zany visual romp through what Jamie's autism label means--and doesn't mean--to him.
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Coming In October, 2005...
An Exercise in Imaginary Time
a novel by
Liane Gentry Skye
Was it an accident. Or a murder? Did Willow fall through the window, or was he pushed? Either way, shattering glass and bloodshed has had its say. An autistic child left is left in a coma, dangling in that space between life and death, with no way to reveal the man who may have had a hand in his demise.
Somewhere in that place between life and death, Willow begins a journey of the spirit which can only end in one of two ways--He can choose to go on living as a boy with severe autism, or he can choose to release those who love him from their seemingly overwhelming obligations to him.
Meanwhile, a real-time battle rages around Willow's physical plight. Experimental treatments promise to restore him to consciousness--but ethical questions are immediately raised by a Harvard bioethicist. What kind of life would Willow return to? What could he possibly contribute to society in his autistic state?
Willow's parents are torn apart. His mother wants her so to live at any cost, but his father feels that the only lasting peace his first-born son will ever know will be found beyond this life.
Then the media begins to weigh in. All hell breaks loose. A country is polarized beyond redemption. Families and friends are ripped asunder. Brother rises up against brother. And a serial killer wearing the mantle of a saint wanders freely about an endless supply of potential victims.
In the wake of the profound ethical questions raised by Terri Schiavo's end of life saga, An Exercise in Imaginary Time examines the core worth of lives which appear to most to be little more than social burdens.
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