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• Mother Tongue

  a Memoir

  Nović, Sara, 1987-

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  [Nonfiction] Tackling her journey from childhood to motherhood, hidden hearing loss to Deaf advocacy, Sara Novi´c’s memoir is a brilliant and impactful study of the personal and institutional realities facing the Deaf community. Novi´c (True Biz)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Identify as Blind

  a Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power

  Lachi (Singer),

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  [Nonfiction] Lachi is an award-winning musician and leader who awakens the world to this truth: Disability has long shaped our culture and is an identity worth brazenly celebrating. In this book, Lachi welcomes readers into the vibrant world of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's All in Your Head

  a Novel

  Nordqvist, Sabina,

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  [Fiction] Your fake relationship shouldn't come with chronic feelings. Skylar is done with offline relationships-especially romantic ones. Living with chronic illness means she's heard it all before: unreliable, high-maintenance, too much. She'd…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Upward Bound

  a Novel

  Brown, Woody,

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  [Fiction] Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unfit Parent

  a Disabled Mother Challenges An Inaccessible World

  Slice, Jessica,

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  [Nonfiction] In Unfit Parent, Slice debunks the exclusionary myths that deem disabled people “unfit” to care for their children, instead showing how disabled parents and disability culture provide valuable lessons for rejecting societal rules that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death of the Author

  a Novel

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  [Fiction] A disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative.

• The Sideways Life of Denny Voss

  a Novel

  Kennedy, Holly,

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  [Fiction] In this poignant and funny novel, a man who is defined by his limitations sets out to fight a murder charge--and discovers unexpected truths about himself, his family, and the world at large. On the surface, Denny Voss's life in rural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hunchback

  a Novel

  Ichikawa, Saō, 1979-

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  Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka's physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• See Me Rolling

  on Disability, Equality and Ten-point Turns

  Jackson, Lottie,

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  [Nonfiction] In this warm, thought-provoking and often hilarious memoir, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the difficulties of going shopping on a mobility scooter, to the headache of defining oneself on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out on a Limb

  a Novel

  Bonam-Young, Hannah,

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  [Fiction] Winnifred "Win" McNulty has always been wildly independent and not one to be coddled for her limb difference. Win has spent most of her life trying to prove that she can do it all on her own. With some minor adjustments, she's done just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Tell When We Will Die

  on Pain, Disability, and Doom

  Hedva, Johanna, 1984-

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  [Nonfiction] The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life. In the wake of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disability Intimacy

  Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

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  [Nonfiction] .The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Dance

  a Novel

  Dutton, Jason B.,

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  [Fiction] Nick Freeman works hard as the star of the weekly karaoke night at his bar, hoping his singing talent...will distract from his cerebral palsy. But one night at the bar, watching a professional dancer light up the dance floor with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Be a Problem

  a Black Woman's Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement

  Baldwin, Dara,

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  [Nonfiction] A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Anti-ableist Manifesto

  Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-inclusive World

  Yu, Tiffany,

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  [Nonfiction] The "Anti-Ableist Manifesto" defines ableism as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people and helps readers understand that ending discrimination begins with self-reflection. Tiffany Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Born Extraordinary

  Empowering Children With Differences and Disabilities

  Zucker, Meg,

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  [Nonfiction] Born Extraordinary helps parents of children with differences and disabilities to relinquish their instinctive anxieties, embrace their new normal, and ultimately find joy in watching their children thrive. Often the subjects of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Head Above Water

  Reflections on Illness

  Shammarī, Shahd,

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  [Nonfiction] Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and told by her neurologist that she would not make it past age thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty, she has become a professor of literature, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Family

  a Novel

  McGill, Jerry,

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  [Fiction] Who wants to believe their family could ever be broken? Devon and James Payne are brothers and rivals since childhood. But they share an affinity for sports that brings glory to their Connecticut town and promise for the future. Then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greek Lessons

  a Novel

  Han, Kang, 1970-

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  [Fiction] In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight. Soon the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soul Jar

  Thirty-one Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors

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  [Science Fiction] Too often, science fiction and fantasy stories erase--or cure--characters with disabilities. Soul Jar, edited by author and bookstore owner Annie Carl, features thirty-one stories by disabled authors, imagining such wonders as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation