People with Disabilities

In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism....

Amit Patel is working as a trauma doctor when a rare condition causes him to lose his sight within 36 hours.... 

What do you do when you wake up in your mid-40s and realize you've been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic....

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.... 

In April of 2004, the long downward spiraling of Amy Bingaman's mental illness could no longer be hidden or ignored much less written off as a side-product of a colorful and quirky character. With no family able to help and no resources, she was involuntarily locked up....

Take this journey with the author as her life takes rapid turns for the very worst.... But after years of being extremely mentally unstable, she acquires the courage, strength, hope, and faith she needs to understand, accept, and live with her illnesses....

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....

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....

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....

The astonishing, Job-like story of how an existence filled with loss, suffering, questioning, and anger became a life filled with shocking and incomprehensible peace and joy....

A searing account of a mother’s late-diagnosis of Asperger's - and its reaching effects on a whole family....

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....

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....

A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist....

In 1972, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine. The accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. Over the next three decades, Callahan would become one of the nation's most beloved cartoonists....

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend....

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America....

Learn about narcolepsy and one persons struggle living with the disease before and after diagnosis. Have you ever woke up and not known where you were or how you got their? You may have narcolepsy....

When John Tovey lost his sight at the age of 42, he thought his life was over. He was wrong, it was just beginning....

This honest, outspoken, and thought-provoking memoir by award-winning writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay will challenge all your assumptions and beliefs about what it is like to have a visibly different appearance.... 

Emily Owen was a highly intelligent teenager who was also athletic and a skilled musician. Tragically, in her late teens she was diagnosed as suffering from Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2)....

My Autistic Fight Song is a memoir that follows Rosie Weldon’s journey from a college drop out as she tries to achieve her dream of being a qualified accountant. With the odds stacked against her and the stakes high, she refuses to give up on her dream....

Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester arena on the night of 22nd May 2017.... 

If you are interested in theoretical physics or just want to be inspired by someone who defied all limits, listen to Stephen Hawking: The Man Who Defied All Limits, and learn about the man who had superhuman qualities....

Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran’s mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange....

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....

When PhD candidate Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a blow to the head, she believes she walks away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she’s quickly led to the emergency room. By the end of the week, a neurologist delivers a devastating prognosis....