Monday, March 23, 2009

Women's History Month!

Celebrate the end of Women's History Month by checking out some of our resources about these amazing females!

Thinking in Pictures and other reports from My Life With Autism by Temple Grandin gives a report from the country of autism. She writes with the dual perspective of a scientist and an autistic person and tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world.

Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon is a true story of Rachel's sister Beth, a spirited woman with mental retardation who spends nearly every day riding the buses in her Pennsylvania city and Rachel one day accompanies her sister on these bus rides.

Sound and Fury (DVD) is an Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary feature that follows the tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. For Peter Artinian and his wife, both of whom are deaf, they are caught between the choice for a surgical ear implant for their five-year-old daughter Heather.

Indiana resident interested in any of these items? Contact us!

Not an Indiana resident? Check out Worldcat to search for these titles at your local library!

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