Bestsellers
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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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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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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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Steve Gleason’s remarkable life with adversity
- By SAOT66 on 07-03-24
By: Steve Gleason, 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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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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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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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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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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Steve Gleason’s remarkable life with adversity
- By SAOT66 on 07-03-24
By: Steve Gleason, 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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Performance
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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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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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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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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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Grant Me Vision
- A Journey of Family, Faith, and Forgiveness
- By: Sabrina Greenlee
- Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, DeAndre Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In this extraordinary memoir, Sabrina Greenlee, the indomitable mother of NFL sensation DeAndre Hopkins, unveils her journey of triumph over adversity—a saga of tenacity, redemption, faith, and the profound reclamation of personal power.
By: Sabrina Greenlee
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Broken Places & Outer Spaces
- Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (TED Books)
- By: Nnedi Okorafor
- Narrated by: Nnedi Okorafor
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science-fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths....
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Inspiring Story
- By Don Miguel on 07-02-19
By: Nnedi Okorafor
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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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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....
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Awesome
- By Alison Schuback on 07-14-24
By: Alice Wong
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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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The Little Big Things
- A young man's belief that every day can be a good day
- By: Henry Fraser
- Narrated by: Henry Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist....
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Amazingly inspirational
- By L. Peanut on 05-07-22
By: Henry Fraser
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Letters to My Son, Rōman
- Love on the Spectrum
- By: Jonathan Mookie Morant
- Narrated by: Jonathan "Mookie" Morant
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In Morant's "Letters to My Son, Rōman," an authentic real-time journal, the author of the #1 release, "The Happy Has Been," shares his personal love letters to his son, Rōman, begun while still occupying Mom's belly.
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BEAUTIFUL!!
- By Jessica A Ottmers on 07-06-24
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How I Survived and Thrived with ADHD
- Hard Conversations with My Younger Self
- By: Anais Fournier, Melanie Drouin
- Narrated by: Azure Elizabeth
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In "How I Survived and Thrived with ADHD," author Anais Fournier offers a heartfelt and insightful journey through her life as a 19-year-old college student with ADHD.
By: Anais Fournier, and others
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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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On My Own Two Feet
- From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
- By: Amy Purdy, Michelle Burford
- Narrated by: Amy Purdy, Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder....
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A Powerful Memoir of Truimph over Tragedy
- By ElizOF on 01-31-22
By: Amy Purdy, and others
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The Warner Boys
- Our Family's Story of Autism and Hope
- By: Curt Warner, Ana Warner, Dave Boling - contributor
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Robin Eller, Marcus Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Seahawks star running back Curt Warner and his wife, Ana, were prominent figures in Seattle in the early 1990s. When they dropped from the public eye after Curt’s retirement, everyone assumed it was for a simpler life. But the reality behind their seclusion was a secret they hid from even their closest friends....
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Gratitude of caring and seeing the whole picture is not an easy journey
- By Ann on 12-04-18
By: Curt Warner, and others
New releases
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Grant Me Vision
- A Journey of Family, Faith, and Forgiveness
- By: Sabrina Greenlee
- Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, DeAndre Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Sabrina Greenlee was born to teenage parents in the shadow of South Carolina’s Clemson University, and her story unfolds against the backdrop of her challenging upbringing in a family that lacked the means—financial and emotional—to offer her and her two brothers the safety, comfort, and love every child deserves. When she was a teenager, her beloved younger brother, Dilly, died in a drunk driving accident. In her early twenties, Sabrina faced the tragic loss of her fiancé and one true love. A decade later, she was brutally and publicly assaulted, resulting in the loss of her vision.
By: Sabrina Greenlee
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Disability: An Anecdotal Field Guide for the Rest of Us
- By: Tracee Garner
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Navigating a Life with Disability? Raising a Special Needs (or whatever you're calling, today) Child? Read This: A Pathway Guide Through Adversity with Quiet Candor and Humor (because you're gonna need it!)... Disability: An Anecdotal Field Guide for the Rest of Us offers firsthand wisdom and practical tips for navigating life with a disability. Drawing on her own experiences as a woman with muscular dystrophy, Tracee Garner covers topics from advocacy to employment, mental health to emergency preparedness. Written in an engaging conversational tone, this “field guide” shares key ...
By: Tracee Garner
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Letters to My Son, Rōman
- Love on the Spectrum
- By: Jonathan Mookie Morant
- Narrated by: Jonathan "Mookie" Morant
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In Morant's "Letters to My Son, Rōman," an authentic real-time journal, the author of the #1 release, "The Happy Has Been," shares his personal love letters to his son, Rōman, begun while still occupying Mom's belly. It was later, before Rōman's second year, that he was diagnosed with "severe autism," non-verbal in nature.
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BEAUTIFUL!!
- By Jessica A Ottmers on 07-06-24
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This Autistic Girl Went to Japan
- And You Won't Believe What Happened Next
- By: Bianca Toeps
- Narrated by: Jessica Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This Autistic Girl Went to Japan is the inspiring story of a young woman who moved halfway around the world in pursuit of happiness. With humor and remarkable candor, Bianca describes the challenges of applying for a visa during a time of terrifying uncertainty, slogging through endless red tape, and the loneliness that comes with being a stranger in a strange land. Oh, and how she wound up evicting a bat from her new apartment, attending a Pokémon GO event with a bunch of middle-aged women, and discovering the best thrift store in all of Tokyo.
By: Bianca Toeps
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Bouncing Back
- A Collection of True and Remarkable Journeys Motivated by Covid-19
- By: Tazhmoye Crawford
- Narrated by: Tazhmoye V. Crawford
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This exceptional piece of work was motivated by the current Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic which continues to claim the lives of thousands of people across the World. It brought back memories of real and extraordinary short stories of individuals (known to me and including me), who have experienced threats to life’s span, and happened to bounce back remarkably well.
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The Reality of Bipolar Disorder
- My Story of Faith, Strength, and Hope
- By: Darcie Cooper
- Narrated by: Leanna Aubuchon
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Take hold of your own personal journey. Make peace with it. Peace is truth. If you suffer from bipolar disorder (also called manic-depression), or if you love someone who does, then you already know how frustrating and baffling this mental illness can be. This book assures you that there is great hope—through all of life's circumstances. Even though bipolar disorder may put us through extreme challenges each and every day, if we are rigorous about taking the right medications and keeping an appropriate lifestyle, we can effectively stabilize the disease and choose a good life.
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Wow..
- By Amazon Customer on 07-01-24
By: Darcie Cooper
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Grant Me Vision
- A Journey of Family, Faith, and Forgiveness
- By: Sabrina Greenlee
- Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, DeAndre Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Sabrina Greenlee was born to teenage parents in the shadow of South Carolina’s Clemson University, and her story unfolds against the backdrop of her challenging upbringing in a family that lacked the means—financial and emotional—to offer her and her two brothers the safety, comfort, and love every child deserves. When she was a teenager, her beloved younger brother, Dilly, died in a drunk driving accident. In her early twenties, Sabrina faced the tragic loss of her fiancé and one true love. A decade later, she was brutally and publicly assaulted, resulting in the loss of her vision.
By: Sabrina Greenlee
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Disability: An Anecdotal Field Guide for the Rest of Us
- By: Tracee Garner
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Navigating a Life with Disability? Raising a Special Needs (or whatever you're calling, today) Child? Read This: A Pathway Guide Through Adversity with Quiet Candor and Humor (because you're gonna need it!)... Disability: An Anecdotal Field Guide for the Rest of Us offers firsthand wisdom and practical tips for navigating life with a disability. Drawing on her own experiences as a woman with muscular dystrophy, Tracee Garner covers topics from advocacy to employment, mental health to emergency preparedness. Written in an engaging conversational tone, this “field guide” shares key ...
By: Tracee Garner
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Letters to My Son, Rōman
- Love on the Spectrum
- By: Jonathan Mookie Morant
- Narrated by: Jonathan "Mookie" Morant
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In Morant's "Letters to My Son, Rōman," an authentic real-time journal, the author of the #1 release, "The Happy Has Been," shares his personal love letters to his son, Rōman, begun while still occupying Mom's belly. It was later, before Rōman's second year, that he was diagnosed with "severe autism," non-verbal in nature.
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BEAUTIFUL!!
- By Jessica A Ottmers on 07-06-24
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This Autistic Girl Went to Japan
- And You Won't Believe What Happened Next
- By: Bianca Toeps
- Narrated by: Jessica Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This Autistic Girl Went to Japan is the inspiring story of a young woman who moved halfway around the world in pursuit of happiness. With humor and remarkable candor, Bianca describes the challenges of applying for a visa during a time of terrifying uncertainty, slogging through endless red tape, and the loneliness that comes with being a stranger in a strange land. Oh, and how she wound up evicting a bat from her new apartment, attending a Pokémon GO event with a bunch of middle-aged women, and discovering the best thrift store in all of Tokyo.
By: Bianca Toeps
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Bouncing Back
- A Collection of True and Remarkable Journeys Motivated by Covid-19
- By: Tazhmoye Crawford
- Narrated by: Tazhmoye V. Crawford
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This exceptional piece of work was motivated by the current Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic which continues to claim the lives of thousands of people across the World. It brought back memories of real and extraordinary short stories of individuals (known to me and including me), who have experienced threats to life’s span, and happened to bounce back remarkably well.
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The Reality of Bipolar Disorder
- My Story of Faith, Strength, and Hope
- By: Darcie Cooper
- Narrated by: Leanna Aubuchon
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Take hold of your own personal journey. Make peace with it. Peace is truth. If you suffer from bipolar disorder (also called manic-depression), or if you love someone who does, then you already know how frustrating and baffling this mental illness can be. This book assures you that there is great hope—through all of life's circumstances. Even though bipolar disorder may put us through extreme challenges each and every day, if we are rigorous about taking the right medications and keeping an appropriate lifestyle, we can effectively stabilize the disease and choose a good life.
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Wow..
- By Amazon Customer on 07-01-24
By: Darcie Cooper
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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
- Unabridged
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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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I Kept Walking
- The Unlikely Journey of a Persian Woman with Polio
- By: Minou Soumekh Michlin, Gali Kronenberg
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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I Kept Walking opens in 1940s Tehran when a misguided prank leaves three- year-old Minou frozen in fear. Days later, a doctor breaks the news to her mother: "Your daughter has polio." To understand why nothing is as it seems-the cause of her polio or why her dutiful Jewish mother, who was married off at 13, thwarted her dream of marriage, Minou must flee Iran and confront the psychological toll of her polio. I Kept Walking is the audacious account of a bold young woman who was unwilling to be crushed by polio or the prohibitions of a conservative society.
By: Minou Soumekh Michlin, and others
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I Wanted to See
- By: Borghild Dahl
- Narrated by: Jody Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Ambition to succeed was inborn before the days of sight-saving classes and the many provisions now available. This book is her achievement. Her ambition was to teach teachers.
By: Borghild Dahl
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The Elephant Man
- By: Frederick Treves
- Narrated by: Edward E. French
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a story in Victorian England of how in 1884 Frederick Treves, Surgeon and Lecturer in Anatomy at the London Hospital arranged for the "Elephant Man" (whose distorted grotesque face and deformed body made him a "freak") to visit the medical college next to the hospital for the purpose of a lecture. They would later become friends and Treves the savior of the man named John Merrick. This is Treves' memoir.
By: Frederick Treves
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God's Got Jokes
- How I Used My Faith and God's Humor to Survive Breast Cancer
- By: Neosho C. Ponder PhD
- Narrated by: Neosho C. Ponder
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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In God’s Got Jokes, author Neosho C. Ponder, allows the listener into the most personal and vulnerable parts of her life. As she battled the hardships of cancer, she learned that some of those who supported her succumbed to their own battles of cancer. You will hear stories such as: Being evicted during chemotherapy, which finally led to her seeing the humor and not choosing to give up. The financial adversity that affects cancer patients too sick to work, those undergoing treatments, and multiple surgeries.
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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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David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved—or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years.
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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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8 Lessons Lupus Taught Me
- From Surviving to Thriving with Autoimmune Diseases
- By: CallyRae Stone
- Narrated by: CallyRae Stone
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Written as a narrative short story, CallyRae shares her candid insights as she journeys through surviving with autoimmune diseases. Suffering from chronic daily pain, infections, and extreme fatigue, her outlook was one of frustration and hopelessness. As her life journey down the autoimmune highway took twists and turns, she learned to read the signs and listen to her body, mind, and spirit. She continues on the journey but has replaced pain with vitality, infections with health, and extreme fatigue with immense energy.
By: CallyRae Stone
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Sound of Mind
- Adventures in Schizophrenia
- By: Chase Moon
- Narrated by: Noah Venegas
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a guide for anyone going into a mental asylum or institution for the first time, or if you have a delusional loved one, with a mental illness, this will help you relate to them better in understanding insanity. Now, join me, in the asylum, as together we go on a very odd journey of discovery in my first mental institution experience. Enter a strange world, before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, as I compete against other game show contestants in a battle to win genetic traits for my family tree.
By: Chase Moon
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Strange Little Girl
- By: Jessica Knight
- Narrated by: Rebekah Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Jessica Knight grew up on a dairy farm in rural Victoria, her crib next door to where all the cows were milked. It's a loving Mormon household, a god-fearing home. While they don't have very much, it's their values and good humor that allows them to laugh at what scares them. All young Jessica wants is to be good and make her parents and her Heavenly Father happy. She cleans the house and helps out with her siblings; all the while being subjected to intensive medical tests and major surgeries. Doctors consider her a puzzle and a medical mystery.
By: Jessica Knight
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I Fight, You Fight
- Life Isn't About the Hand You're Dealt, but How You Choose to Play It
- By: Alex Noble
- Narrated by: Alex Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his life in the ICU. Following a four-day coma and a diagnosis of C4 quadriplegia, Alex’s first words to his brother Zac were, ‘If I fight, you fight.’ These words became a war cry as Alex’s friends, family and community rallied around him, watching in awe as he fought to regain control over his body and defy his diagnosis.
By: Alex Noble
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Breath
- A Triumphant Story of Hope and Survival
- By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe
- Narrated by: Elisa Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of 21 and faced a rare cancer at the age of 30. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills. From her hospitalised childhood to her many friendships, loves and losses, Metcalfe shares the fickle nature of life with candour and warmth. She writes with compelling insight about organ donation, opioid addiction and survivor's guilt, while still managing to find joy amongst the wreckage.
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Dandelion Roots Run Deep
- An Environmental Memoir
- By: Merry Clark, Merrill Clark
- Narrated by: Merry B. Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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"Dandelion Roots Run Deep" is the true story of three generations of tenacious Midwestern women, one in Illinois and two in Michigan. Merry is the third generation, and her mother Merrill, fought for organic agriculture and Michigan's environment from 1967 - 2009. Merrill developed Alzheimer's before finishing her book, so Merry took her story to fruition.
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Family, Passion, Compassion!
- By Brian Reeds on 06-02-24
By: Merry Clark, and others