Bestsellers
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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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Honesty with Oneself
- By Dana Cradeur on 03-29-24
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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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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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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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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Witty, winning, and revelatory, The Country of the Blind is a personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own.
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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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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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Honesty with Oneself
- By Dana Cradeur on 03-29-24
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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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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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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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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Witty, winning, and revelatory, The Country of the Blind is a personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own.
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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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The Hard Parts
- A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
- By: Oksana Masters, Cassidy Randall - contributor
- Narrated by: Emily Tremaine, Oksana Masters
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine—in the shadow of Chernobyl—seemingly with the odds stacked against her. She came into the world with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs.
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Told her truth well
- By Heather on 07-29-24
By: Oksana Masters, and others
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Vision
- A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
- By: David S. Tatel
- Narrated by: John Lescault, David S. Tatel
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity....
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A wonderful and inspiring listen, a clear and compelling story
- By D on 06-13-24
By: David S. Tatel
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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....
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Clear-Eyed, Meditative Exploration of Life w/ ALS
- By Christopher Burke on 09-06-24
By: Steve Gleason, and others
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Limitless
- The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance
- By: Mallory Weggemann, Tiffany Yecke Brooks - contributor
- Narrated by: Mallory Weggemann
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you the encouragement you need to rise up to meet any challenge you face in life....
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Inspiring read
- By Mewmemphis on 04-25-21
By: Mallory Weggemann, and others
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The Deaf Girl
- A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds
- By: Abigail Heringer
- Narrated by: Abigail Heringer
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Abigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth.
By: Abigail Heringer
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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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Easy Beauty
- By: Chloé Cooper Jones
- Narrated by: Chloé Cooper Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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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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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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A Little Less Broken
- How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
- By: Marian Schembari
- Narrated by: Marian Schembari
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves....
By: Marian Schembari
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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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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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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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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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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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Half My Sky
- Autism, Marriage, and the Messiness That Is Building a Family
- By: Carrie Cariello
- Narrated by: Carrie Cariello
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In her most revealing memoir yet, Carrie is candid about the challenges of marriage, motherhood, and keeping one’s identity in the midst of raising a family. She gives the listener a glimpse into life with a diagnosed child.
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It's Not Over Until it's Over
- By K. LOWRY on 06-25-24
By: Carrie Cariello
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What Doesn't Kill You
- A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
- By: Tessa Miller
- Narrated by: Tessa Miller
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Excellent book
- By LZ on 02-14-21
By: Tessa Miller
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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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Crashing Through
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations and never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, came startling news: a revolutionary stem-cell transplant surgery could restore May's sight....
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Outstanding!
- By K. R. Phillips on 06-27-07
By: Robert Kurson
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Invisible Storm
- A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD
- By: Jason Kander
- Narrated by: Jason Kander, Diana Kander
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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From political wunderkind and former army intelligence officer Jason Kander comes a haunting, powerful memoir about impossible choices—and how sometimes walking away from the chance of a lifetime can be the greatest decision of all....
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Normalizing mental health help
- By Momoffour on 07-10-22
By: Jason Kander
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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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Time to Face This World: The Schizophrenic Diaries of Joseph A. Peragine Boxed Set
- Vol. 1-3
- By: Joseph Peragine
- Narrated by: Joseph A. Peragine
- Length: 24 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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My name is Joseph A. Peragine. I am a paranoid schizophrenic. On October 22, 2000, I tried to kill myself in a severely hallucinogenic state due to undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia.
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Just wow!
- By Troublesmyths on 08-31-24
By: Joseph Peragine
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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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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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Valuable insights into nonverbal autism
- By Sharon on 07-09-24
By: Ido Kedar
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Joni
- An Unforgettable Story
- By: Joni Eareckson Tada, Joe Musser, Bob Goff
- Narrated by: Joni Eareckson Tada
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Christian classic detailing the remarkable events surrounding the 1967 diving accident that left Joni Eareckson Tada paralyzed. This special 45th anniversary edition of Joni commemorates the worldwide impact of her life story to people living with disabilities....
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Wonderful!
- By Evelyn on 08-18-23
By: Joni Eareckson Tada, and others
New releases
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God Gave Us a Special Needs Child
- A Miracle from above Story
- By: Dr. Lloyd C. Darby Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Dr. Lloyd C. Darby Ph.D.
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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I wrote this book because I wanted the world to know the story of my special needs son Lloyd C. Darby lll. Affectionately known as DJ, which stands for Darby Junior. When people triumph over their circumstances as my wife and I have, there are usually hidden lessons others can benefit from contained within the events. However, if we don’t share our stories with the world, no one will ever hear about them.
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Blind Vision
- A Blind Man’s Courage in the Face of Loss, Triumph and Love
- By: James Pittar
- Narrated by: Les Horovitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Blind Vision is a fascinating account of a unique and inspiring career in open-water swimming. But more than that, it is a story for anyone that’s ever been told they can’t. James Pittar is living proof that no matter what the odds, with dedication, passion, and the right people around you, you can.
By: James Pittar
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Freeing Teresa
- A True Story About My Sister and Me
- By: Franke James, Teresa Heartchild, Billiam James
- Narrated by: Jackie Blackmore, Lauren Potter, Dayleigh Nelson, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Franke James is an environmental activist who got into trouble in her own backyard—family trouble. She objected when she heard her siblings' plan to put their disabled sister, Teresa Heartchild, into a nursing home. Teresa, who has Down syndrome, refused to go. But the other siblings insisted and secretly put Teresa into an institution for end-of-life care. Teresa was in shock. Franke was horrified and organized a rescue.
By: Franke James, and others
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In My Dreams I Dance
- A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing for change
- By: Anne Wafula Strike
- Narrated by: Tina Tieno
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee her native Kenyan village, moving across the country with her family. After overcoming additional adversity, including the loss of her mother and ableist prejudice, Anne moved to the UK, where she discovered her talent for wheelchair racing. The first East African to compete in her sport, representing Kenya in the 2004 Paralympics before joining Paralympics GB, Anne is now a fierce advocate for the promotion of the games around the world, and a champion of disabled rights.
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Taken by Surprise
- A Declaration of Perseverance
- By: Kevin Gocke
- Narrated by: Kevin Gocke
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Kevin’s life was forever changed on a random Wednesday when he was just 20 years old. An aspiring musician at the time, he was planning to attend music school and pursue his dream of becoming a composer. A stroke dismantled every plan and everything in his life. In Taken By Surprise, Kevin chronicles his battles with the stroke. After a risky brain surgery, he was in a coma for nearly a month and spent six weeks in an acute rehab facility to learn how to walk and talk all over again.
By: Kevin Gocke
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Past the Expiration Date
- 35 Years with Multiple Sclerosis
- By: JJ Leander
- Narrated by: Charles D. Baker
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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After 35 years, the author knows many of the ins and outs of living with Multiple Sclerosis. JJ Leander went from a promise of a wheelchair ride toward an early death, to a winning formula for surviving into Old Age that is anything but a quick trip to the funeral home.
By: JJ Leander
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God Gave Us a Special Needs Child
- A Miracle from above Story
- By: Dr. Lloyd C. Darby Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Dr. Lloyd C. Darby Ph.D.
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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I wrote this book because I wanted the world to know the story of my special needs son Lloyd C. Darby lll. Affectionately known as DJ, which stands for Darby Junior. When people triumph over their circumstances as my wife and I have, there are usually hidden lessons others can benefit from contained within the events. However, if we don’t share our stories with the world, no one will ever hear about them.
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Blind Vision
- A Blind Man’s Courage in the Face of Loss, Triumph and Love
- By: James Pittar
- Narrated by: Les Horovitz
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Blind Vision is a fascinating account of a unique and inspiring career in open-water swimming. But more than that, it is a story for anyone that’s ever been told they can’t. James Pittar is living proof that no matter what the odds, with dedication, passion, and the right people around you, you can.
By: James Pittar
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Freeing Teresa
- A True Story About My Sister and Me
- By: Franke James, Teresa Heartchild, Billiam James
- Narrated by: Jackie Blackmore, Lauren Potter, Dayleigh Nelson, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Franke James is an environmental activist who got into trouble in her own backyard—family trouble. She objected when she heard her siblings' plan to put their disabled sister, Teresa Heartchild, into a nursing home. Teresa, who has Down syndrome, refused to go. But the other siblings insisted and secretly put Teresa into an institution for end-of-life care. Teresa was in shock. Franke was horrified and organized a rescue.
By: Franke James, and others
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In My Dreams I Dance
- A story of prejudice, perseverance and pushing for change
- By: Anne Wafula Strike
- Narrated by: Tina Tieno
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee her native Kenyan village, moving across the country with her family. After overcoming additional adversity, including the loss of her mother and ableist prejudice, Anne moved to the UK, where she discovered her talent for wheelchair racing. The first East African to compete in her sport, representing Kenya in the 2004 Paralympics before joining Paralympics GB, Anne is now a fierce advocate for the promotion of the games around the world, and a champion of disabled rights.
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Taken by Surprise
- A Declaration of Perseverance
- By: Kevin Gocke
- Narrated by: Kevin Gocke
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Kevin’s life was forever changed on a random Wednesday when he was just 20 years old. An aspiring musician at the time, he was planning to attend music school and pursue his dream of becoming a composer. A stroke dismantled every plan and everything in his life. In Taken By Surprise, Kevin chronicles his battles with the stroke. After a risky brain surgery, he was in a coma for nearly a month and spent six weeks in an acute rehab facility to learn how to walk and talk all over again.
By: Kevin Gocke
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Past the Expiration Date
- 35 Years with Multiple Sclerosis
- By: JJ Leander
- Narrated by: Charles D. Baker
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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After 35 years, the author knows many of the ins and outs of living with Multiple Sclerosis. JJ Leander went from a promise of a wheelchair ride toward an early death, to a winning formula for surviving into Old Age that is anything but a quick trip to the funeral home.
By: JJ Leander
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Seeing Beyond the Shadows
- By: Meredith Leigh Burton
- Narrated by: Meredith Leigh Burton
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Seeing Beyond the Shadows provides a window into the life of a blind individual. Burton addresses some of the obstacles that people with visual impairments encounter, such as the issue of transportation, the low employment problem, and the overall lack of opportunities that impede progress. She provides firsthand accounts of her own experiences navigating these obstacles and relates her faith journey as she has come to rely on God’s guidance.
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How I Fell in Love with My Diabetes
- By: Kamal Kant Lal
- Narrated by: Mridweeka
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The art of avoiding diabetes and its complications has been known to humankind for over 2500 years. Yet, people have not learned to live with it. Is it impossible for a person with diabetes to live healthy for his entire lifespan? Embark on an extraordinary journey with Dr. Kamal Kant Lal as he shares a deeply personal odyssey in How I Fell in Love with My Diabetes. This memoir isn't just about managing diabetes, it's an inspiring testament to resilience, self-discovery, and a radical shift in perspective towards living with this condition.
By: Kamal Kant Lal
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Growing Up with Asperger's
- Lessons Learned & Shareable Wisdom
- By: Mitch Grace
- Narrated by: Mitch Grace
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Growing Up With Asperger's provides advice, stories, and anecdotes for autistic listeners both young and old, and parents of autistic children. Funny and down-to-earth with an honest look at life from an autistic perspective.
By: Mitch Grace
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The Cliffs of Schizophrenia
- A Mother and Son Perspective
- By: Jake McCook, Laurette McCook
- Narrated by: Laurette McCook, John Krause
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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At the age of 30, Jake found himself hospitalized, grappling with the weight of anxiety, depression, and paranoia. Soon, he received the life-altering diagnosis of schizophrenia. In this intimate and illuminating book, you are invited into Jake's world, a world he shares with his mother, Laurette, through alternating chapters.
By: Jake McCook, and others
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A Major Adjustment
- By: Andy Merriman
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux, Georgie Devereaux
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Sarah Merriman is just like any other urbane young woman in her twenties... She has a job in a Central London hotel, a boyfriend, commutes to work on the Tube, eats out, goes to films and theatre... This is all the more remarkable (though not to her) because Sarah was born with Down's Syndrome. Her parents having no prior inkling, it came as a huge shock to them that they now had a daughter with a disability. In 1999 her father Andy wrote a frank and moving book, A Minor Adjustment, about the challenge of her early years. Now he continues with this inspirational story.
By: Andy Merriman
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I'll push you
- Der Jakobsweg, zwei beste Freunde und ein Rollstuhl
- By: Patrick Gray, Justin Skeesuck
- Narrated by: Elmar Börger, Nilz Bessel
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Mehr als nur ziemlich beste Freunde... Mit 16 erleidet Justin einen Verkehrsunfall, der ihn fast tötet und eine langsam voranschreitende Autoimmunerkrankung auslöst. Er kann seine Arme und Beine nicht mehr bewegen, ist auf den Rollstuhl angewiesen. Sein Traum: den Jakobsweg gehen. Als er seinem Freund Patrick davon erzählt, zögert dieser nicht, sich mit ihm zusammen auf das Abenteuer einzulassen. Sechs Wochen sind die beiden unterwegs, die Reise bringt beide an ihre Grenzen, doch gemeinsam bewältigen sie die 800 Kilometer über Stock und Stein durch Nordspanien.
By: Patrick Gray, and others
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Schuyler's Monster
- A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter
- By: Robert Rummel-Hudson
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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When Schuyler Rummel-Hudson was 18 months old, a question about her lack of speech by her pediatrician set in motion a journey that continues today. When she was diagnosed with bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (an extremely rare neurological disorder), her parents were given a name for the monster that had been stalking them from doctor to doctor, and from despair to hope, and back again.
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Must-read for medical parents & those who ❤them
- By Kelly A. Wolske on 05-23-18
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The True History of the Elephant Man
- The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
- By: Michael Howell, Peter Ford
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon, Frederick Treves. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and un-romanticized facts of his life.
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Amazing man!
- By Carolyn on 02-05-15
By: Michael Howell, and others
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Daddy Won't Let Mom Drive the Car
- True Tales of Parenting in the Dark
- By: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
- Narrated by: Marni Penning
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Daddy Won’t Let Mom Drive the Car: True Tales of Parenting in the Dark is a book of short vignettes - most of them lighthearted, a few more serious - about my life as the blind mother of a sighted daughter. Welcome to my journey! My blindness has changed a few practical logistics. But in the end, kids are kids and moms are moms, and the dents and delights of parenthood are universal.
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Short, sweet, and Great wisdom here!
- By Mike Calvo on 10-07-19
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The Story Of My Life
- By: Helen Keller
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Conlon
- Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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“At the beginning I was only a little mass of possibilities. It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.” The Story of My Life, Helen Keller’s autobiography, is the story of that unfolding. It is the story of how, with Anne Sullivan as her guide, Keller developed from “a mass of possibilities” to become one of the most beloved and admired women in American history. With intelligence, humor and wisdom, Keller describes her passage, “from darkness into light, from isolation to friendship, companionship, knowledge, love.”
By: Helen Keller
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One More Day
- On a Mission to End Bullying
- By: Joey Christensen
- Narrated by: Todd Haskell
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In the context of bulling, we tend to focus on the don'ts. Don't point. Don't stare. Don't use hurtful words. Being the eternal optimist that he is, Joe challenges us to redirect our energy. Instead of not acting like a bully, he calls us to imitate the compassion of a friend. Subtle yet powerful, the examples Joe gives of people going out of their way to treat him like they would anyone else call all of us to action.
By: Joey Christensen
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Hi, I Have a TBI
- By: Michael Jarzenski
- Narrated by: Andrew Jeffers
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A story about a dead man walking. A journey through depression, happiness, divorce, death, survival, and so much more. Stories about life as a chef and life with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). These are the real stories about the difficult process of recovery from a motorcycle accident and how life continues afterward.
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The World in Flames
- A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
- By: Jerald Walker
- Narrated by: C. S. Treadway
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames.
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Life inside of a cult member
- By R. Gill on 04-07-18
By: Jerald Walker
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Navigating This Thing Called Life
- By: Myisha Lorraine Allen
- Narrated by: Cindy Gaston
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Jump in the passenger seat as I navigate you through my journey of blindness, sexual abuse, mental illness, and various other medical conditions and tragedies. I will take you on the twists and turns of single motherhood and dating with a disability, all while only having the use of one arm. Join me for an emotional, yet exciting, ride to see how I end up at my current destination.
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Awesome.
- By Mellany on 08-24-22
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A Light in the Tower
- A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
- By: Katie Rose Guest Pryal
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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With evocative storytelling and incisive research, Katie Rose Guest Pryal brings a new eye to the mental health crisis that higher education has faced for decades. Written from the perspective of a bipolar-autistic professor, A Light in the Tower is both a bracing account of the mental health crisis in higher education and a passionate and informed proposal for how to teach with mental health in mind. Pryal contends that higher education's mental health crisis is the result of long-term systemic problems in education that demand nothing short of a revolution.
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Broke
- By: Sam Drummond
- Narrated by: Tim Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Sam always knew he was starting life on the back foot. When his parents split, Sam, his mother and his brother had to learn to survive in a world not built for single-parent families. Add to that Sam's diagnosis with a form of dwarfism and the odds seemed stacked against them. As surgeons kept breaking and resetting Sam's legs in attempts to keep him walking, disability and poverty collided, and it took all the family's strength not to crumple in the impact. In Broke, lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply compassionate tale of life on the fringes.
By: Sam Drummond
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Golem Girl
- A Memoir
- By: Riva Lehrer
- Narrated by: Riva Lehrer, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs
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In 1958, Riva is one of the first children born with spina bifida to survive. Her parents and doctors are determined to "fix" her, sending the message over and over again that she is broken. That she will never have a job, a romantic relationship, or an independent life. Enduring countless medical interventions, Riva tries her best to be a good girl and a good patient in the quest to be cured. Everything changes when, as an adult, Riva is invited to join a group of artists, writers, and performers who are building Disability Culture.
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One of the best disability themed books I’ve ever read
- By Justin & Ben on 01-18-23
By: Riva Lehrer
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Find Another Dream
- By: Maysoon Zayid
- Narrated by: Maysoon Zayid
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Find Another Dream, written and performed by Maysoon Zayid, is the true story of how a Muslim Jersey girl with cerebral palsy creates her own path to stardom. The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, as a child she dreamed of one day dancing on Broadway. As a teen, a bubble-bursting choreographer told her to “find another dream”, so she set her sights on becoming a soap star, undeterred by the fact that the odds were against her.
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Not what I expected
- By Amazon Customer on 11-04-19
By: Maysoon Zayid
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Lutar [To Fight]
- Algumas coisas que você precisa saber sobre um deficiente [Some Things You Need to Know About a Disabled Person]
- By: Louis Mascarenhas Conan
- Narrated by: Gustavo Daniel
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Desde muito cedo, Louis aprendeu a lutar. Lutou pela vida desde o nascimento. Com determinação e persistência, enfrentou e venceu, um a um, os obstáculos que o destino lhe impôs. Contra a previsão de vários especialistas, andou, falou, leu, escreveu, chegou à universidade. Aos 20 anos, nos presenteia com este audiolivro em que narra com otimismo, apesar de tudo, sua entrega ao jogo da vida, no qual cada minuto é importante para a vitória.
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Tamurai's Adventure
- A Raw and Real ALS Journey
- By: Tammy Michaels
- Narrated by: Sue Walser
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Tammy wanted to share her journey with ALS with real and raw truths. Follow Tammy as she gives you a peek into her life before her diagnosis and then her journey while fighting ALS. This memoir was written with just Tammy's eyes using a electronic device called a Eye Gaze.
By: Tammy Michaels
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Tumorous Hesticles
- Just Say Cancer
- By: Af Marseh
- Narrated by: Af Marseh
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Af's journey starts from the exhilaration of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to confronting a tumour diagnosis at 29. An unexpected return to the UK meant trading Olympic thrills for surgeries and chemotherapy. This isn't just a tale of medical battles but family relationships, friendships and positivity. Af shared his journey on social media with an unfiltered look into the world of cancer treatment. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Brazil and the medical corridors of UK hospitals, Af's tale is one of resilience, humour, and hope.
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A difficult story told in the funniest way
- By Amazon Customer on 08-14-24
By: Af Marseh
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Unleash Different
- Achieving Business Success Through Disability
- By: Rich Donovan
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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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 percent of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market. Unleash Different reveals how companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Nordstrom are attracting people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Replacing “nice to do” with “return on investment” allows market forces to take over and the world’s leading brands to do what they do best: serve a market segment - in this case, the disability market.
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After hearing the author speak, I expected different.
- By DeAnn Johnson on 04-18-19
By: Rich Donovan
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Crashing Through
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May's vision.
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Very brave and inspirational.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-16-16
By: Robert Kurson
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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
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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. If her teacher couldn't answer “why” in class, she dissolved into tears, unable to articulate her own confusion or explain her lack of control.
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Very helpful perspective about growing up uniquely
- By Schuyler on 04-13-24
By: Paige Layle