Black Disability Politics
By: Sami Schalk
Narrated by: Imani Barbarin
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the... Read more
View audiobookDisfigured
By: Amanda Leduc
Narrated by: Amanda Barker
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and... Read more
View audiobookDisability Intimacy
By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.
What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more
Unmasking Autism
By: Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity
“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP,author of... Read more
The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... Read more
View audiobookDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more
View audiobookCare Work
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more
View audiobookOne Two Three
By: Laurie Frankel
Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky & Rebecca Soler
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"The smart choice of narrators Emma Galvin (One), Jesse Vilinsky (Two), and Rebecca Soler (Three) as the Mitchell triplets is entertaining in addition to their amazing synergy." -- Booklist (starred review)
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It... Read more
The Country of the Blind
By: Andrew Leland
Narrated by: Andrew Leland
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
Named one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORKER • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ATLANTIC • NPR • PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LITHUB
"Fascinating...The great strength of this memoir is its voracious, humble curiosity." - The Atlantic, The 10 Best Books of the Year
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of... Read more
True Biz
By: Sara Novic
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War
“For those who loved the... Read more
Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
Narrated by: Fern Brady
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Witty, dry, and gimlet-eyed, this is a necessary corrective in a world where Autistic women are all either written off as quiet and docile, or erased entirely.” —Devon Price, Ph.D., author of Unmasking Autism
Scottish comedian Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she'd had loads of boyfriends and is... Read more
The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy
By: Steph Jones
Narrated by: Collette Byrne
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The ultimate autistic survival guide to therapy
"This is the book that would've saved me nine different therapists, decades of self-analysis, thousands of pounds, twelve different doctors and untold amounts of pain, frustration and trauma - in spending a lifetime looking for the right answers in the wrong places I've become an accidental... Read more
Loving Our Own Bones
By: Julia Watts Belser
Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture
A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice
“What’s wrong with you?”
Scholar, activist, and rabbi Julia Watts Belser is all too familiar with... Read more
Hello, Universe
By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo & Amielynn Abellera
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Newbery Medal“A charming, intriguingly plotted novel.” —Washington PostAcclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly’s Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships.Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and... Read more
View audiobookBut Everyone Feels This Way
By: Paige Layle
Narrated by: Paige Layle
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically.
“For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. But knew it couldn’t be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me. This wasn’t okay. This wasn’t normal. This wasn’t functioning. And it... Read more
Self-Care for Autistic People
By: Megan Anna Neff
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Ditch the stigma, celebrate your identity, and put yourself first with these 100+ exercises that reinforce the idea that neurodiversity is a strength and teaches you how to relax, destress, find your community, practice self-love, and more.
When you’re autistic, it can be tough to prioritize wellness.
Self-Care for Autistic People can help you... Read more
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
By: Dusti Bowling
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The audio edition of the bestselling middle grade novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship—all while solving a mystery in a western theme park.
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a... Read more
A Life Impossible
By: Steve Gleason & Jeff Duncan
Narrated by: Daniel Cummings
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS
“Steve Gleason has changed the world.” –Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner • "An extraordinary book...A Life Impossible will change the way people cope, think, and live." –Mike Lupica, co-author with James... Read more
Touch the Future
By: John Lee Clark
Narrated by: Perry Daniels
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience, and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch.
Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an... Read more
Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels
By: Sara Gibbs
Narrated by: Sara Gibbs
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me. To cure me of my autism would be to cure me of myself.'
During the first thirty years of her life, comedy script writer Sara... Read more
How Ableism Fuels Racism
By: Lamar Hardwick
Narrated by: Diontae Black
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Publishers Weekly starred review
"Marshaling fine-grained historical detail and scrupulous analysis, Hardwick persuades." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
As a Black autistic pastor and disability scholar, Lamar Hardwick lives at the intersection of disability, race, and religion. Tied to this reality, he heeded the call to write How... Read more
Sitting Pretty
By: Rebekah Taussig
Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more
View audiobookEasy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
Narrated by: Chloé Cooper Jones
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * One of Oprah Daily’s 33 Memoirs That Changed a Generation
From Chloé... Read more
Miracle Creek
By: Angie Kim
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus interview with the author and original music composed and performed by Steve Draughn.
A thrilling debut about how far we’ll go to protect our families—and our deepest secrets.
My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first...
In rural Virginia, Young... Read more