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Every Time You Go Away
By: Abigail Johnson
Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano & Graham Halstead
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Jennifer Niven, Abigail Johnson draws a searing and lyrical portrait of grief, forgiveness, and the kind of love that blooms in the aftermath.
Eight years ago, Ethan and Rebecca met, two troublemaking kids sharing secrets and first kisses in a tree house, until Ethan’s mom returned to take him away. Each and every visit, his... Read more
The Girl with Special Shoes
By: Hilda Bih Muluh
Narrated by: Hilda Bih Muluh
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Hilda’s family didn’t know she had muscular dystrophy. They just knew their preschooler was losing her ability to walk. But they were determined to find a cure.
Being disabled in Cameroon meant not only obstacles to transport, but visits to diviners and evangelists, threats of sexual assault, discrimination, and a crisis of faith. Despite the... Read more
Lucky Girl
By: Scout Bassett
Narrated by: Scout Bassett
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Sprinter, long jumper, and Paralympian Scout Bassett shares the lessons she’s learned battling the toughest challenges facing young women today.
As an infant in China, Scout Bassett survived a fire that took her right leg. She spent the next seven years in an orphanage before being adopted and whisked away to the United States, where she felt... Read more
Limp Forward
By: Libo Meyers
Narrated by: Libo Meyers
Length: 13 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
"A vibrant story of a brilliant and industrious woman." — Kirkus Reviews
"An inspirational book that drives home the importance of perseverance, love, and the beauty that can come from being differently abled." — Readers' Favorite (5 star)
"A tale of perseverance, an inspiration for all. Look back to understand your roots, & look forward to... Read more
A Life Worth Living
By: Tommy Jessop
Narrated by: Jane Jessop & Tommy Jessop
Length: 18 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, moving and joyous memoir from Tommy Jessop, award-winning actor and activist.
I'm a man on a mission to show that life with Down Syndrome can be exciting and is worth living, so that other people understand and give us the chance to live life to the full and to be fulfilled.
Tommy Jessop is a multi-award winning actor, theatre... Read more
Scatter Brain
By: Shaparak Khorsandi
Narrated by: Shaparak Khorsandi
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Some brains, through no fault of their own, pack a bag, turn the lights off and run away to the seaside the moment they are meant to be doing homework, paying bills or not putting the cat in the fridge. These are ADHD brains. I have one and believe they are as common as being left-handed, flat footed or genuinely... Read more
Give Me a Sign
By: Anna Sortino
Narrated by: Elizabeth Robbins
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp.
Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when you don’t feel “deaf enough” to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world’s expectations. But this summer, Lilah is ready for a... Read more
Leg
By: Greg Marshall
Narrated by: Greg Marshall
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy
Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries,... Read more
The Secret Summer Promise
By: Keah Brown
Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Last summer, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She’s waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don’t tell them that), she’s... Read more
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Chronic
By: Rebecca Dimyan
Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In this powerful debut, Rebecca Dimyan details her experience with endometriosis, a chronic disease which effects one in ten women worldwide. This painful condition takes an average of seven years to be diagnosed and has no proven cure. Most women will undergo multiple surgeries, take countless painkillers and other drugs, and will still endure... Read more
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Something More
By: Jackie Khalilieh
Narrated by: Parmida Vand
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed.
Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make... Read more
Where You See Yourself
By: Claire Forrest
Narrated by: Ali Stroker
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and much-needed disability representation in this story about a girl who's determined to follow her dreams.By the time Effie Galanos starts her senior year, it feels like she's already been thinking about college applications for an eternity-after all,... Read more
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Little Earthquakes
By: Sarah Mandel
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
“Sarah Mandel has done something remarkable here. I found myself weeping, laughing with delight and moved with love—all in the span of the day it took me to devour this book. Filled with deliciously specific images and metaphors, clear dialogue, and rich explorations of self and others, Mandel has written—among other things—a tender witness... Read more
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Jude Saves the World
By: Ronnie Riley
Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of Alex Gino, A. J. Sass, and Kyle Lukoff, this is the joyful and heartwarming story of Jude, a nonbinary kid who knows exactly who they are and decides to create a safe space in their community.Twelve-year-old Jude struggles with some things: focusing at school, feeling like everything rests on their shoulders, not being able... Read more
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Gold Medal Mysteries: Thief on the Track
By: Ellie Robinson
Narrated by: Nadia Albina
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Join three sporting detectives as they race around the world in the brand new mystery adventure series from multi gold medal-winning Paralympian, Ellie Robinson.
Hannah, Maria, and Seb are at the World Championships in Tokyo, bonding over their excitement at watching their favourite athletes compete. But Jesse Marks, a star runner on the US... Read more
Without Restraint
By: Robert C. DeLena & Ryan C. DeLena
Narrated by: Tim Getman & Alex Boyles
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
As a child Ryan DeLena had difficulty controlling his emotional outbursts. This led to placement in therapeutic schools that relied on detrimental methods of behavior modification such as physical restraints.Nothing helped from a team of doctors to heavy medication. Then in 2010, Ryan was voluntarily committed to a mental hospital for further... Read more
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Losing Music
By: John Cotter
Narrated by: John Cotter
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp.”John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or... Read more
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Rockstar Detectives: Murder at the Movies
By: Adam Hills
Narrated by: Adam Hills
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Meet Charley - a totally ordinary 13-year-old, who's also an international singing sensation.
Meet George - Charley's best friend, social media whizz, and budding comedian.
Charley and George are in Sydney, where Charley is filming her first movie. But when mysterious accidents begin to happen whenever Charley's on set,... Read more
My Body and Other Crumbling Empires
By: Lyndsey Medford
Narrated by: Emily Ellet
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
As a writer, activist, and theology student, Lyndsey Medford was used to critiquing unsustainable medical, environmental, economic, and social systems from a theoretical perspective. But when her autoimmune disorder roared out of remission, she discovered that her own body's systems lived at the very real vortex of all those systems'... Read more
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No Matter the Distance
By: Cindy Baldwin
Narrated by: Reena Dutt
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An unexpected animal companion helps a girl with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story in this captivating novel in verse by award-winning author and disabled activist Cindy Baldwin. Penny Rooney has cystic fibrosis, which means she has to do breathing treatments to help her lungs work. Some days, it seems like her CF is the only thing... Read more
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The Architecture of Disability
By: David Gissen
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical reorientation of this perspective by situating experiences of impairment as a new foundation for the built environment. With its provocative proposal for "the construction of disability,"... Read more
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Just Jerry
By: Jerry Pinkney
Narrated by: Scott Pinkney & Gloria Pinkney
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring memoir of one of the most acclaimed children’s book illustrators of all time, sharing the story of a young artist who finds the courage to follow his passion against all odds.
Jerry’s vivid recollections and lively sketchbook drawings of his youth in postwar America tell an inspiring story of how a hardworking boy pursued his... Read more
Life on Delay
By: John Hendrickson
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • USA TODAY BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF AUDIBLE'S BEST BIOS AND MEMOIRS OF 2023 • “A raw, intimate look at [Hendrickson's] life with a stutter. It’s a profoundly moving book that will reshape the way you think about people living with this condition.”—Esquire • A candid memoir about a lifelong struggle to speak.... Read more
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Fighting For YES! (Audio Descriptive)
By: Maryann Cocca-Leffler & Judith Heumann
Narrated by: Ali Stroker & Judith Heumann
Length: 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the principal said NO. When she wanted her teaching license, the New York Board of Education said NO. Judy and people with disabilities everywhere were tired of hearing “NO.” In the 1970s, an important disability rights law, Section 504 of The... Read more
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