People with disabilities
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Flashback Girl: Lessons on Resilience from a Burn Survivor
$14.99 Add to cart2020 Nautilus Book Award for Memoir, Gold; 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Memoir (Personal struggle), Finalist
At the age of four, Dr. Lise Deguire suffered third-degree burns on 65%
- Author: Deguire, Lise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1734932007
- Language: English
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Laws We Need To Know: Understanding Rules and Programs for Persons with Mental Illness
$29.00 Add to cartThose suffering from mental illness and their supporters need to understand and access complex rules and programs. As a knowledgeable attorney cannot be called every time a question arises, this book
- Author: Miller, Baron L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: August 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1734771208
- Language: English
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A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaqu? Rodrigo
$45.00 Add to cartJoaqu? Rodrigo (1901-1999) is best known as the composer of one of the most popular works of music in the twentieth century–the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra. It’s been featured in m
- Author: Suárez-Pajares, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324004452
- Language: English
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The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429576
- Language: English
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Beautiful Child: The True Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of One Child comes this amazing, true story of a mute and withdrawn seven–year–old girl and the special education teacher determined never to abandon a child in need.
Seve
- Author: Hayden, Torey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0062662740
- Language: English
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
$25.99 Read moreA 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 tha
- Author: Taussig, Rebekah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062936794
- Language: English
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Lyrica’s Journey of Ascension: A Nonverbal Autistic Finds Her Power, Peace, and Purpose
$16.95 Add to cartThere are many stories living within this book of supreme revelations.
First, it is the story of a brave and determined soul, Lyrica, who chose to arrive into our world with no voice and who, with the
- Author: Marquez, Lyrica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 22 2021
- ISBN10: 173656210X
- Language: English
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Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities
$39.00 Add to cartNazi “euthanasia” programs were designed to eliminate all persons with disabilities who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the health and purity of the German race. Ms. Evans explores the develop… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Susanne E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2004
- ISBN10: 1566635659
- Language: English
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Helen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings (Loa #378): The Story of My Life / The World I Live in / Essays, Speeches, Letters, and Jour Nals
$40.00 Add to cartIn her own words, the legendary American icon who overcame adversity to become a brilliant writer and powerful advocate for the disabled: The Story of My Life, The World I Live In, plus a dozen reveal… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 653
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537725
- Language: English
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A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family
$17.99 Add to cart“A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents . . . I have rarely read anything on the subject more powerful or poignant t
- Author: Walker, Lou Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0060914254
- Language: English
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Qda: A Queer Disability Anthology
$30.00 Add to cartFeaturing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics by 48 writers from around the world, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology proves that intersectionality isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a penetrating and unf… [more below]
- Author: Luczak, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1941960022
- Language: English
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When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation
$19.95 Read moreA lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.
Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening af
- Author: Fraser, Tara Sidhoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1551529270
- Language: English
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Sailing into Salvation
$16.95 Add to cartRonald Barratt, after graduating from college, wanted to serve his country. On a dark night in 1993, his world was changed forever and set him on a path of self-destruction, anger, and resentment. PTS
- Author: Barratt, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Clubfoot Connections: Stories, Essays, and Poetry from the Clubfoot Community
$13.99 Add to cartRoyal Dragonfly Book Award Winner for Special Needs/Disability Awareness
Wondering what the clubfoot journey is like?
There’s not just one answer: each individual has a unique story to tell.
Clubfoot Co
- Author: Miller, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1942480369
- Language: English
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The Best 35 Years of My Life
$13.95 Add to cartA report came out in 1972 on Willowbrook regarding how disabled children were being treated. I was intrigued and decided to apply for a job at Willowbrook to be of help wherever I was needed. I am so
- Author: Clark, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 46
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887317922
- Language: English
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The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability
$23.99 Add to cartDraws on themes of the disability-rights movement to identify people with disabilities as members of a socially disadvantaged minority group rather than as individuals who need to adjust. Highlights t… [more below]
- Author: Eiesland, Nancy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0687108012
- Language: English
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Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence
$24.95 Read moreChampioning the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness
In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer
- Author: Smilges, J. Logan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1517914094
- Language: English
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Fever
$20.00 Add to cartA memoir made up of essays fragments, Fever, examines what it is to desire throughout all phases and states of life and being. Niziolek mixes plain language with poetic prose to interrogate trauma fro
- Author: Niziolek, Shilo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 07 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986078892
- Language: English
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The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging
$24.95 Read morePeople with disabilities (PWDs) have the same aspirations for their lives as you do for yours.
The difference is that PWDs don’t have the same access to education, employment, housing, transportation
- Series: Orca Issues
- Author: Leavitt, Hannalora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1459819284
- Language: English
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
$36.00 Add to cartThe 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 i… [more below]- Author: Girma, Haben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1538728729
- Language: English
