Bestsellers
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A Life Impossible
- Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
- By: Steve Gleason, Jeff Duncan
- Narrated by: Daniel Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that paralyzes the entire body. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-four years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date....
By: Steve Gleason, and others
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The Tennis Partner
- A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital....
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The author has a beautiful, delicate way of bringing his characters to life
- By Anita J Botha on 04-29-24
By: Abraham Verghese
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No Time Like the Future
- An Optimist Considers Mortality
- By: Michael J. Fox
- Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A moving account of resilience, hope, fear, and mortality and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox....
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Thankful
- By Michelle J Swanson on 11-18-20
By: Michael J. Fox
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Disability Intimacy
- Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility comes another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms....
By: Alice Wong
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But Everyone Feels This Way
- How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
- By: Paige Layle
- Narrated by: Paige Layle
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Paige Layle was normal. She lived in the countryside with her mom, dad, and brother Graham. She went to school, hung out with friends, and all the while everything seemed so much harder than it needed to be. A break in routine threw off the whole day....
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Very helpful perspective about growing up uniquely
- By Schuyler on 04-13-24
By: Paige Layle
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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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....
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Missing stories
- By Adrianna A. on 11-19-20
By: Alice Wong
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A Life Impossible
- Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
- By: Steve Gleason, Jeff Duncan
- Narrated by: Daniel Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that paralyzes the entire body. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-four years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date....
By: Steve Gleason, and others
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The Tennis Partner
- A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
- By: Abraham Verghese
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital....
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The author has a beautiful, delicate way of bringing his characters to life
- By Anita J Botha on 04-29-24
By: Abraham Verghese
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No Time Like the Future
- An Optimist Considers Mortality
- By: Michael J. Fox
- Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A moving account of resilience, hope, fear, and mortality and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox....
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Thankful
- By Michelle J Swanson on 11-18-20
By: Michael J. Fox
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Disability Intimacy
- Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility comes another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms....
By: Alice Wong
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But Everyone Feels This Way
- How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
- By: Paige Layle
- Narrated by: Paige Layle
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Paige Layle was normal. She lived in the countryside with her mom, dad, and brother Graham. She went to school, hung out with friends, and all the while everything seemed so much harder than it needed to be. A break in routine threw off the whole day....
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Very helpful perspective about growing up uniquely
- By Schuyler on 04-13-24
By: Paige Layle
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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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....
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Missing stories
- By Adrianna A. on 11-19-20
By: Alice Wong
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Thunder Dog
- The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
- By: Michael Hingson, Susy Flory, Larry King - foreword
- Narrated by: Christopher Prince
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Follow Michael and his guide dog, Roselle, as their lives are changed forever by two explosions and 1,463 stairs. In this harrowing story of trust and courage, discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America’s darkest days....
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Amazing story, some issues with the writing
- By Matthew on 04-08-22
By: Michael Hingson, and others
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Mean Baby
- A Memoir of Growing Up
- By: Selma Blair
- Narrated by: Selma Blair
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In a memoir that is as wildly funny as it is emotionally shattering, Selma Blair tells the captivating story of growing up and finding her truth....
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Poor little privileged girl...
- By Tesa Fisher on 09-20-22
By: Selma Blair
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Normal Sucks
- How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
- By: Jonathan Mooney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Mooney
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed....
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Beautiful
- By Tasha on 09-30-19
By: Jonathan Mooney
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Thinking in Pictures
- My Life with Autism
- By: Temple Grandin
- Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism....
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Interesting look Inside Autism
- By Sean on 07-11-10
By: Temple Grandin
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Being Heumann
- An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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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 Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect....
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A must read for everyone
- By Christopher A Cawthon on 09-28-20
By: Judith Heumann, and others
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The Country of the Blind
- A Memoir at the End of Sight
- By: Andrew Leland
- Narrated by: Andrew Leland
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades....
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Lovely and accurate depiction of the world of the partially sighted or blind
- By Vanessa on 09-21-23
By: Andrew Leland
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Look Me in the Eye
- My Life with Asperger's
- By: John Elder Robison
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits had earned him the label "social deviant"....
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Interesting autobiography; not autism-informative
- By Steener on 03-13-15
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Autism in Heels
- The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
- By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole
- Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense....
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Somewhat relatable but not really.
- By M Bond on 02-26-23
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Ghost Boy
- The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body
- By: Martin Pistorius
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years....
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Best Book In Years
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-19-17
By: Martin Pistorius
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Sitting Pretty
- The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- By: Rebekah Taussig
- Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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AMPLIFY this type of constructive, imaginative, and uplifting voice!!
- By Nish on 09-01-20
By: Rebekah Taussig
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Hope Heals
- A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love
- By: Katherine Wolf, Jay Wolf, Joni Eareckson Tada - foreword
- Narrated by: Katherine Wolf, Jay Wolf
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Katherine and Jay Wolf were a young couple living the dream in Southern California, but all was nearly lost when Katherine suffered a shocking near-fatal brainstem stroke and struggled to find hope in a life that looked nothing like the one they had before....
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Excellent Book
- By Lisa on 09-29-22
By: Katherine Wolf, and others
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Year of the Tiger
- An Activist's Life
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project....
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Alice Wong is rad
- By H on 09-16-22
By: Alice Wong
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Secret Harvests
- A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
- By: David Mas Masumoto
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned....
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Tough as They Come
- By: Travis Mills, Marcus Brotherton, Gary Sinise - foreword
- Narrated by: Travis Mills
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple-amputee injuries. This is one soldier's story....
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So-so
- By Rachael Shook on 02-16-19
By: Travis Mills, and others
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The PDA Paradox
- The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum
- By: Harry Thompson, Felicity Evans - foreword
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with drugs and alcohol....
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A great resource for PDAers & their loved ones
- By Rochelle Esser on 12-18-21
By: Harry Thompson, and others
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Easy Beauty
- By: Chloé Cooper Jones
- Narrated by: Chloé Cooper Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation....
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Understanding Disabilities Increased
- By Gwendolyn Lewis on 06-10-22
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Ido in Autismland
- Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison
- By: Ido Kedar
- Narrated by: Eli Bildner
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Ido in Autismland opens a window into non-verbal autism through dozens of short, autobiographical essays each offering new insights into autism symptoms, effective and ineffective treatments, and the inner emotional life of a severely autistic boy....
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Great inside view from a non- speaking person
- By Jason and Christy on 03-29-24
By: Ido Kedar
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PDA in the Family
- Life After the Lightbulb Moment
- By: Steph Curtis
- Narrated by: Chris Curtis, Steph Curtis
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In this honest and open account of life with her PDA daughter, Sasha, Steph Curtis reveals the everyday struggles and explores the milestones of raising a child diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance....
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A Mirror to Our Journey: Insights into the PDA Experience
- By Goldie on 02-22-24
By: Steph Curtis
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Deaf Utopia
- A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life
- By: Nyle DiMarco, Robert Siebert
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a multi-generational Deaf family in Queens, New York....
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ASL is more important as a curriculum than foreign languages in American schools
- By mama bird on 02-03-23
By: Nyle DiMarco, and others
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Being Seen
- One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
- By: Elsa Sjunneson
- Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else....
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Did not resonate with me
- By Amazon Customer on 01-05-23
By: Elsa Sjunneson
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There's a Hole in My Bucket
- A Journey of Two Brothers
- By: Royd Tolkien
- Narrated by: Drew Cullingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspirational, life-affirming memoir from the great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien....
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Love and Remembrance
- By Austin on 12-12-21
By: Royd Tolkien
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Haben
- The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
- By: Haben Girma
- Narrated by: Haben Girma
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Wonderful story, told in her own voice.
- By Calucin on 08-10-19
By: Haben Girma
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Disfigured
- On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
- By: Amanda Leduc
- Narrated by: Amanda Barker
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour....
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Mixed bag
- By Kim Padan on 01-18-22
By: Amanda Leduc
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Love & Autism
- By: Kay Kerr
- Narrated by: Kay Kerr
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Through the intimate writing of critically acclaimed autistic author Kay Kerr, Love & Autism presents an uplifting celebration of neurodivergent love, the search for it and a deeper look into the lives of autistic Australians....
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Taking Autistic Lives Seriously
- By David Dark on 12-30-23
By: Kay Kerr
New releases
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A Life Impossible
- Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
- By: Steve Gleason, Jeff Duncan
- Narrated by: Daniel Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that paralyzes the entire body. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-four years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced.
By: Steve Gleason, and others
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Disability Intimacy
- Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others—a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm.
By: Alice Wong
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Bipolar Disorder
- A Journey from Darkness to Acceptance
- By: J.L. Douglas
- Narrated by: Christine Marie
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A journey from darkness to acceptance is a raw and compelling memoir chronicling one woman's harrowing personal struggle with mental illness. When a severe psychotic break abruptly derails Elisa's stable life as a wife and mother, she finds herself plunged into an unpredictable world ruled by the terrifying whims of her mind. This powerful personal account traces Elisa's odyssey through the fragmented mental health system, oscillating from psychiatric holds to outpatient programs and back again as doctors struggle to control her volatile mood cycles.
By: J.L. Douglas
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After the Flames
- A Burn Victim's Battle with Celebrity
- By: Jonathan R. Rose
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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After the Flames is about one of the world's most famous burn victims: his incredible survival, his nightmarish path to recovery that helped revolutionize medical treatment for burn victims worldwide, the fame thrust upon him after he was declared a hero from the media, and the tumultuous years that followed, most of which were spent under the microscope of an unforgiving public eye.
By: Jonathan R. Rose
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Led by Love
- An Anthology of True Short Stories Honoring Service Dogs
- By: Tina Felton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of autobiographical tales answers many readers' questions regarding the lives of those needing service dogs. What sorts of challenges do the legally blind face? How does one go about obtaining a guide dog? How can disabilities affect relationships? How does one cope with being diagnosed with a chronic and degenerative condition? Can an animal really become a dear friend? Not only are these stories engaging and heartwarming, but 100% of the profit from each purchase will be donated to Guide Dogs for the Blind in order to raise funds for those who need a canine companion. ...
By: Tina Felton
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Top of the World
- Surviving the Manchester Bombing to Scale Kilimanjaro in a Wheelchair
- By: Martin Hibbert, Fiona Duffy, Dan Walker - foreword
- Narrated by: Will Edgerton
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Martin’s teenage daughter Eve was one of the 940 injured, in Eve’s case, gravely. The dad from Bolton has since become a leading campaigner both for victims of the atrocity and those with spinal cord injuries. Determined to make a difference he took on the ultimate challenge, scaling Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair, becoming the second paraplegic to do so, and raising a million pounds for charity.
By: Martin Hibbert, and others
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A Life Impossible
- Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence
- By: Steve Gleason, Jeff Duncan
- Narrated by: Daniel Cummings
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that paralyzes the entire body. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-four years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced.
By: Steve Gleason, and others
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Disability Intimacy
- Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others—a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm.
By: Alice Wong
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Bipolar Disorder
- A Journey from Darkness to Acceptance
- By: J.L. Douglas
- Narrated by: Christine Marie
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A journey from darkness to acceptance is a raw and compelling memoir chronicling one woman's harrowing personal struggle with mental illness. When a severe psychotic break abruptly derails Elisa's stable life as a wife and mother, she finds herself plunged into an unpredictable world ruled by the terrifying whims of her mind. This powerful personal account traces Elisa's odyssey through the fragmented mental health system, oscillating from psychiatric holds to outpatient programs and back again as doctors struggle to control her volatile mood cycles.
By: J.L. Douglas
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After the Flames
- A Burn Victim's Battle with Celebrity
- By: Jonathan R. Rose
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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After the Flames is about one of the world's most famous burn victims: his incredible survival, his nightmarish path to recovery that helped revolutionize medical treatment for burn victims worldwide, the fame thrust upon him after he was declared a hero from the media, and the tumultuous years that followed, most of which were spent under the microscope of an unforgiving public eye.
By: Jonathan R. Rose
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Led by Love
- An Anthology of True Short Stories Honoring Service Dogs
- By: Tina Felton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of autobiographical tales answers many readers' questions regarding the lives of those needing service dogs. What sorts of challenges do the legally blind face? How does one go about obtaining a guide dog? How can disabilities affect relationships? How does one cope with being diagnosed with a chronic and degenerative condition? Can an animal really become a dear friend? Not only are these stories engaging and heartwarming, but 100% of the profit from each purchase will be donated to Guide Dogs for the Blind in order to raise funds for those who need a canine companion. ...
By: Tina Felton
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Top of the World
- Surviving the Manchester Bombing to Scale Kilimanjaro in a Wheelchair
- By: Martin Hibbert, Fiona Duffy, Dan Walker - foreword
- Narrated by: Will Edgerton
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Martin’s teenage daughter Eve was one of the 940 injured, in Eve’s case, gravely. The dad from Bolton has since become a leading campaigner both for victims of the atrocity and those with spinal cord injuries. Determined to make a difference he took on the ultimate challenge, scaling Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair, becoming the second paraplegic to do so, and raising a million pounds for charity.
By: Martin Hibbert, and others
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One Dude's Guide to Being Bipolar
- How to Stay the Hell Out of Grippy Socks Jail, Achieve Anyways, and Abide Always
- By: Arch Grieve
- Narrated by: Arch Grieve
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In this candid, humorous, and insightful book, author, political science lecturer, and “Dudeist Priest” Arch Grieve provides listeners with a first-hand account of the many lessons he has learned (often the hard way) as a person living with bipolar disorder. This guidebook is a must-listen for anyone who has recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder or knows someone who has.
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So informative
- By Anonymous User on 04-27-24
By: Arch Grieve
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Life as a Late-Identified Autistic
- A Collection of Essays Exploring Autism
- By: Jackie Schuld
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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When Jackie Schuld’s therapist suggested she might be autistic, she scoffed. She knew there was no way she could be autistic. She was in her mid-30s and ran her own therapy private practice. Everything she learned about autism in her Master’s program in mental health counseling didn’t apply to her. She could make excellent eye contact. She could engage in deep conversations. She could attend social gatherings. She could make it through abrupt changes and remain flexible. How could she be autistic? The more she learned about autism — how it internally impacts autistics and how it can...
By: Jackie Schuld
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But Evie Had Other Plans
- By: Irene Williams, Toby Williams
- Narrated by: Irene Williams
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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This book is a reflection of a mother’s experience when her daughter, after a sudden severe headache, was diagnosed with a torn brain aneurysm and arteriovenous malformation in the cerebellum. TJ, Evie’s brother, also shares his experience.
By: Irene Williams, and others
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Loving Our Own Bones
- Rethinking Disability in an Ableist World
- By: Julia Watts Belser
- Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Drawing insights from the hard-won wisdom of disabled folks who've forged difference into fierce and luminous cultural dissent, Belser offers fresh and unexpected interpretations of familiar biblical stories, showing how disability wisdom can guide us all toward a powerful reckoning with the complexities of the flesh. She talks back to biblical commentators who traffic in disability stigma and shame, challenging interpretations that demean disabled people and diminish the vitality of disabled lives.
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The Grammar of My Body
- A Memoir
- By: Abhishek Anicca
- Narrated by: ERROL RODRIGUES
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Subverting an ableist India’s expectations from a disabled person to be ‘inspirational’ and an ‘underdog who made it’ despite their illness, Abhishek Anicca writes about everyday stories of living with disability and chronic illness in this memoir-in-essays.
By: Abhishek Anicca
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New Steel
- Replace Doubt and Fear with Resolve and Courage; From Two Hip Replacements to Two Triathlon Finishes
- By: Chris Bystriansky
- Narrated by: Chris Bystriansky
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Whether you’re facing your own hip replacement surgery or want to train for something like a triathlon, or you simply find yourself facing extreme challenges in your own life, this book is your guide to putting steel in your bones and doing what you may never have thought was possible.
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Battling Cancer from the Sidelines: A Spouse’s Recollection
- What We Did and What We Would’ve Done Differently
- By: Troy Dunham
- Narrated by: Curtis Wright, Voice Artist
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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Our aim with this narrative is to share our journey through the labyrinth of cancer treatment—the decisions we faced, the paths we chose, and, most importantly, the lessons we learned. We hope to offer guidance, support, and perhaps a sense of solidarity to others who find themselves on a similar journey. This is not your typical medical guide; it is a well-researched companion for every aspect of your cancer journey and a deeply personal account of battling cancer from the perspective of a spouse.
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Extremely Moving!
- By Monika 5 on 05-01-24
By: Troy Dunham
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Running on Empty
- 18,000 Miles Down Africa with Parkinson’s
- By: Guy Deacon
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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At the age of sixty, and having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over ten years, Guy Deacon CBE set out on one last adventure: to drive solo from his home in the UK 18,000 miles and through twenty-five countries to Cape Town on the southern tip of Africa. This incredible journey, across Europe and down the full length of Africa, took the former British Army officer over twelve months. Along the way, he broke down five times, underwent one emergency evacuation, and took 3,650 prescription pills.
By: Guy Deacon
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Now That I Have Your Attention
- 7 Lessons in Leading a Life Bigger Than They Expect
- By: Nicolas Hamilton
- Narrated by: Nicolas Hamilton, Linda Hamilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Nicolas Hamilton has been exceeding expectations since day one. Born with a form of cerebral palsy, Nicolas was told that he would never walk and would need a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Today he not only walks everywhere but he is the first disabled athlete to ever compete at the top level of British motorsport, The British Touring Car Championship, where he lines up on the grid alongside some of the world's best drivers. Now That I Have Your Attention follows Nicolas's remarkable journey and shares the valuable, tough, and often surprising lessons learned throughout his life.
By: Nicolas Hamilton
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Depression, Drugs, & the Bottomless Pit: How I found my light amid the dark
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- By: C.K. Murray
- Narrated by: Personal Memoir, Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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There is no light without the dark At the end of the day, when the day is spent, there is only one thing to do: think. You know there's a problem. You know there's a very real, very likely, disaster ahead. But you ignore it. Or someone ignores it. Or, perhaps, you feel that nobody cares. Whatever the reason, hope is slim. Life is tough and drugs are tougher. But don't give in. There is a light amid the dark, and I will show it. Let me help you. Personally, let me guide you from a place I knew too well. Hopefully, to a place you'll embrace as well. What do you have to lose? Depression, Drugs...
By: C.K. Murray
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Always with Me
- By: Moses Macias
- Narrated by: Guyon Brandt
- Length: 59 mins
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Always With Me is a true story about the life of Moses Macias as he grew up in and out of the hospital for twenty-one years. He was born with spina bifida and cleft lip. As a result, he would have to endure dozens of surgeries as he would fight for his life growing up. Always With Me also details other struggles of growing up disabled such as bullying, depression, suicide, medical abuse, sexual abuse, and pain of receiving medical treatment throughout his life. Despite all the trauma he endures in life, he finds his faith in God.
By: Moses Macias
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The Geographer
- The Descent into Madness
- By: Ad Gridley
- Narrated by: Ad Gridley
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Mental illness is on the rise. It can affect people of any gender, age or background. When it strikes, it can be devastating, and it can be very difficult for families and friends to know what to do. Meanwhile, the sufferer can be completely oblivious to the pain and destruction they’re causing. They’ll push away the people who most sincerely want to help.
By: Ad Gridley