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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Heumann, Judith - Beacon Press
Format: Book
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One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from... |
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Book
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In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears,... |
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA - Arsenal Pulp Press
Format: Paperback
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Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha is a poet and essayist whose most recent book, the memoir Dirty River, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. She is also a long-time member of the disability justice movement, which... |
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The Collected Schizophrenias
Esme Weijun Wang - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias... |
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Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
Alice Wong - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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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 myriad forms.. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than... |
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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Leduc, Amanda - COACH HOUSE BOOKS
Format: Book
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Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney,... |
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert - Avon
Format: Paperback
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Talia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance's brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who's tired of being "boring" and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things - perfect for fans of Sally Thorne,... |
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Golem Girl
Riva Lehrer - One World
Format: Book
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What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? And what becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures?In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive.... |
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Good Kings Bad Kings
Susan Nussbaum - Algonquin Books; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum’s powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers—alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy—except that they live in an institution for juveniles with disabilities. This unfamiliar, isolated landscape is much... |
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Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
Haben Girma - Twelve
Format: Book
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Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's... |
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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors: A Novel
Sonali Dev - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco...It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered... |
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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig - HarperOne
Format: Book
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A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sittingpretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early... |
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A Song for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker
Format: Paperback
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In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illegal making concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music, and for one chance at human connection.In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit... |
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