About This Collection
Our libraries are chock full of listens that help stamp out ableism and tell the full story of the human experience from all perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. What follows is a collection of some of our favorite nonfiction and memoirs that give voice to people living with disability.-
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Care Work
- Dreaming Disability Justice
- By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities....
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Critical reading for EVERYONE.
- By wilson pipkin
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Care Work
- Dreaming Disability Justice
- Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-24-19
- Language: English
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Bitten
- The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
- By: Kris Newby
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 mins
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This true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time - Lyme disease - and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it....
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awesome. important info. everyone needs to read
- By Deb Olsen
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Bitten
- The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
- For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
- By: Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg, Fran Odette
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is the first complete sex guide for people who live with disabilities, pain, illness, or chronic conditions....
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a good place to start
- By Anna d.
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
- For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 11-18-11
- Language: English
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Have Dog, Will Travel
- A Poet's Journey with an Exceptional Labrador
- By: Stephen Kuusisto
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life....
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A great tribute to seeing eye dogs
- By Jazzi
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Have Dog, Will Travel
- A Poet's Journey with an Exceptional Labrador
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-13-18
- Language: English
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Far from the Tree
- Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
- By: Andrew Solomon
- Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
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A brilliant and utterly original thinker, Andrew Solomon's journey began from his experience of being the gay child of straight parents.....
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Stunned!
- By Molly-o
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Far from the Tree
- Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
- Narrated by: Andrew Solomon
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-13-12
- Language: English
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
- By: John Callahan
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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In 1972, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine. The accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. Over the next three decades, Callahan would become one of the nation's most beloved cartoonists....
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God so good!
- By Nina
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-05-18
- Language: English
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If at Birth You Don't Succeed
- My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
- By: Zach Anner
- Narrated by: Zach Anner
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Zach lives by the mantra: When life gives you a wheelchair, make lemonade....
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Laugh out loud good time
- By Van
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If at Birth You Don't Succeed
- My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
- Narrated by: Zach Anner
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-08-16
- Language: English
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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 mins
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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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Great
- By Sara James
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 mins
- Release date: 06-30-20
- Language: English
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My Brief History
- By: Stephen Hawking
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Stephen Hawking has dazzled listeners worldwide with a string of best sellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward....
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Beautifully Written Memoir
- By Tiff
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My Brief History
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-10-13
- Language: English
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About Us
- Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
- By: Andrew Solomon - foreword, Peter Catapano - editor, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson - editor
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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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....
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About Us
- By KS
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About Us
- Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo, Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-03-19
- Language: English
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Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
- By: Shane Burcaw
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, 20-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy....
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Great True Story
- By L
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Strangers Assume My Girlfriend Is My Nurse
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-11-19
- Language: English
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Exile and Pride
- Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
- By: Eli Clare
- Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics....
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Well worth a listen
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Exile and Pride
- Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
- Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-31-16
- Language: English
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Miracle Boy Grows Up
- How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
- By: Ben Mattlin
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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No one thought Ben Mattlin would live past childhood. But that didn’t stop him.....
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powerful
- By Melanie
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Miracle Boy Grows Up
- How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
- Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-23-13
- Language: English
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Mean Little Deaf Queer
- A Memoir
- By: Terry Galloway
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear....
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The Funniest, Meanest, Little Deaf Queer Out There
- By Susie
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Mean Little Deaf Queer
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-01-12
- Language: English
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It's Not What It Looks Like
- By: Molly Burke
- Narrated by: Molly Burke
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
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As a child, Molly Burke was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and became completely sightless as a teenager. Now an award-winning YouTube star and global influencer, Molly shares what it’s like to be a purple-haired, pink-obsessed fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world....
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3 books with varied results
- By R. MCRACKAN
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It's Not What It Looks Like
- Narrated by: Molly Burke
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-01-19
- Language: English
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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
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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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A must read
- By sugandha gupta
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Haben
- The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
- Narrated by: Haben Girma
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- Language: English
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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
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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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Worth every second and penny--and a world more
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Sitting Pretty
- The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body
- Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
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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
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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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Good Book on Social Change
- By Wesley Bishop
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Being Heumann
- An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
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All Our Families
- Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship
- By: Jennifer Natalya Fink
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability....
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All Our Families
- Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-22-22
- Language: English
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Relentless
- From National Champion to Physically Disabled Activist
- By: Katherine Itacy
- Narrated by: Xenia Willacey
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Katherine Itacy was born deformed and, by the age of four, had developed both a dangerous spinal disorder and an incurable disease. Yet, 13 years later, she'd amassed five state and eight national high school championship titles in track and field....
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Relentless
- From National Champion to Physically Disabled Activist
- Narrated by: Xenia Willacey
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-10-21
- Language: English
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