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Hard Landings
By: Cammie McGovern
Narrated by: Cammie McGovern
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.
After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two,... Read more
I Live a Life Like Yours
By: Jan Grue
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Jan Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. Shifting between specific periods of his life—his youth with his parents and sister in Norway; his years of study in Berkeley, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam; and his current life as a professor, husband, and father—he intersperses these histories with elegant, astonishingly... Read more
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Blind Man's Bluff
By: James Tate Hill
Narrated by: Curtis Armstrong
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, he used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact,... Read more
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Rolling Warrior
By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
Narrated by: Ali Stroker
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong.
“If I didn’t fight, who would?”
Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and... Read more
Phantompains
By: Therese Estacion
Narrated by: Therese Estacion
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.Taking inspiration from Filipino horror... Read more
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There Plant Eyes
By: M. Leona Godin
Narrated by: M. Leona Godin
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.
There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture,... Read more
What to Say Next
By: Sarah Nannery & Larry Nannery
Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Using her personal experience living as a professional woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sarah Nannery, together with her husband, Larry, offers this timely communication guide for anyone on the Autism spectrum looking to successfully navigate work, life, and love.
When Sarah Nannery got her first job at a small nonprofit, she thought she... Read more
What Doesn't Kill You
By: Tessa Miller
Narrated by: Tessa Miller
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.
Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At... Read more
The Wolven Mark
By: Megan Linski
Narrated by: Maxx Pinkins & Liana Walsh
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Finding your soulmate can be deadly…EmmaI never believed magic was real– until I used it to kill a werewolf.Not long after, a letter arrived from a supernatural school for fae, claiming I was a sorceress. I’m forced into a world where dragons breathe fire, griffins fly, alicorns battle and wolves hunt monsters. At this academy, sorceresses are... Read more
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Being Heumann
By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
Narrated by: Ali Stroker
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Tony-award winning actress Ali Stroker reads the story of Judy Heumann—one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history
A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts... Read more
Sick Kids In Love
By: Hannah Moskowitz
Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier—it's safer—it's better—for the other person.
She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis.
But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic illness Isabel's never heard of, something she can't even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He understands her... Read more
About Us
By: Peter Catapano & Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross & Coleen Marlo
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are—not as others perceive them—About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to those with disabilities, but also to their families, coworkers, and support networks, the authors in... Read more
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The Pretty One
By: Keah Brown
Narrated by: Keah Brown
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.
Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire... Read more
Haben
By: Haben Girma
Narrated by: Haben Girma
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an... Read more
The Ables
By: Jeremy Scott
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
I did have fantastic hearing, mostly by virtue of being blind. But that couldn't actually mean that he's trying to tell me I have super powers, right? Because that would be ridiculous.
It wasn't the "sex talk" he expected. Phillip Sallinger's dad has told him he's a custodian—a guardian—and his genetically inherited power is telekinesis. He'll... Read more
Forget Me Not
By: Ellie Terry
Narrated by: Heather Costa & Matt Godfrey
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees... Read more
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Unleash Different
By: Rich Donovan
Narrated by: Braden Wright
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
If you discovered a new market comprising 53% of the world’s population, would you act to invest in it?
There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53% of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market.
Unleash Different illustrates... Read more
A Disability History of the United States
By: Kim E. Nielsen
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present
Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first... Read more
Have Dog, Will Travel
By: Stephen Kuusisto
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.
Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind—but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted.... Read more
If at Birth You Don't Succeed
By: Zach Anner
Narrated by: Zach Anner
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and under-prepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future. So how did this hairless mole-rat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation... Read more
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The Reason I Jump
By: Naoki Higashida
Narrated by: Tom Picasso
Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
You' ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought... Read more
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Funny, You Don't Look Autistic
By: Michael McCreary
Narrated by: Michael McCreary
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn’t “look” autistic. But, as he’s quick to point out in this memoir, autism “looks” different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary... Read more
My Dyslexia
By: Philip Schultz
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disabilityDespite being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “dummy class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when... Read more
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Back in Action
By: David Rozelle
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes. They were wrong.Refusing to let his injury stop him, Captain David Rozelle roared back into action,... Read more
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