What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
It’s Smokey and the Bandit meets Every Which Way But Loose! The outrageous, madcap, and oft-forgotten 1977 cult movie classic is now finally available as a multi-cast audio extravaganza. A loving send-up of a bygone era of trucker films and their beer-swillin’, skirt-chasin’, verb-shortenin’ heroes, this audio adventure is a joyride in absurdity; with its rapid-fire jokes only matched by their total outrageousness.
The runaway New York Times bestseller—over half a million copies in print. It happens quietly one hot August morning in Iowa: two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night. Seven-year-old Calli Clark suffers from selective mutism brought on by a tragedy when she was a toddler. Petra Gregory is Calli’s best friend—and her voice. But neither girl has been heard from since they vanished.
