Public library services for Canadians with print disabilities
  • Mobile accessibility tips
    • Change contrast
      • AYellow on black selected
      • ABlack on yellow selected
      • AWhite on black selected
      • ABlack on white selected
      • ADefault colours selected
    • Change text size
      • Text size Small selected
      • Text size Medium selected
      • Text size Large selected
      • Text size Maximum selected
    • Change font
      • Arial selected
      • Verdana selected
      • Comic Sans MS selected
    • Change text spacing
      • Narrow selected
      • Medium selected
      • Wide selected
  • Register
  • Log in
  • Français
  • Home
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines
  • Recommended
  • For libraries
  • Help
  • Skip to content
      • Change contrast
        • AYellow on black selected
        • ABlack on yellow selected
        • AWhite on black selected
        • ABlack on white selected
        • ADefault colours selected
      • Change text size
        • Text size Small selected
        • Text size Medium selected
        • Text size Large selected
        • Text size Maximum selected
      • Change font
        • Arial selected
        • Verdana selected
        • Comic Sans MS selected
      • Change text spacing
        • Narrow selected
        • Medium selected
        • Wide selected
  • Accessibility tips
CELAPublic library services for Canadians with print disabilities

Centre for Equitable Library Access
Public library service for Canadians with print disabilities

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Français
  • Home
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines
  • Recommended
  • For libraries
  • Help
  • Advanced search
  • Browse by category
  • Search tips
Breadcrumb
  1. Home

Title search results

Jump to filters

Showing 1 - 15 of 15 items

The cure: how a father raised $100 million -- and bucked the medical establishment -- in a quest to save his children

By Geeta Anand. 2010

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio

With three beautiful children, a new house, and financial security, John and Aileen Crowley had it all until their two…

youngest children were diagnosed with Pompe disease and given only months to live. Refusing to accept a death sentence, John quit his job and invested in a biotechnology start-up to find a cure. Battling scientific setbacks, conflict of interest accusations, and business troubles, John and Aileen were tested to their limits as a revolutionary new treatment for the disease was found. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2010.

Les figures de l'ombre: le rêve américain et l'histoire inédite des mathématiciennes noires qui ont aidé les États-Unis à remporter la course spatiale

By Margot Lee Shetterly, Johan-Frédérik Hel-Guedj. 2017

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

L'histoire extraordinaire de trois scientifiques Afro-Américaines qui ont propulsé les Etats-Unis en tête de la conquête spatiale. Les ordinateurs de…

couleur . Tel était le descriptif de poste des mathématiciennes afro-américaines Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson et Christine Darden, employées à la NASA dans les années soixante. Armées de simples crayons, règles et calculatrices, très loin des ordinateurs hyper performants que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, ces quatre scientifiques ont permis la réussite de la mission de John Glenn en 1962 : il fut le premier astronaute américain en orbite, dix mois seulement après Youri Gagarine. Grâce à ces femmes, les Etats-Unis devaient prendre la tête de la course à la conquête spatiale. Pourtant, leurs noms sont restés inconnus du grand public pendant plus de cinquante ans. Dans une Amérique des années soixante rongée par la ségrégation raciale (à la NASA, Blancs et Noirs de déjeunaient pas à la même table), sans compter le sexisme auquel elles devaient faire face, leurs carrières ont été pour ainsi dire oblitérées. C'est après un travail de recherche très méticuleux que Margot Lee Shetterly réhabilite aujourd'hui leur histoire dans ce document exceptionnel, adapté au cinéma par Hollywood. 2017.

Call the midwife: [a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times] (Call the Midwife. #1.)

By Jennifer Worth. 2012

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in…

London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colourful cast of women - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side. Basis of the BBC TV series. Followed by "Shadows of the workhouse". 2012.

First man: the life of Neil A. Armstrong

By James R Hansen. 2018

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio

On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person…

ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no words in human history became better known than those few he uttered at that historic moment. Upon his return to Earth, Armstrong was honored and celebrated for his monumental achievement. He was also--as James R. Hansen reveals in this fascinating and important authorized biography--misunderstood. Armstrong's accomplishments as an engineer, a test pilot, and an astronaut have long been a matter of record, but Hansen's unprecedented access to private documents and unpublished sources and his interviews with more than 125 subjects (including more than fifty hours with Armstrong himself) yield this first in-depth analysis of an elusive American celebrity still renowned the world over. 2018.

Hidden figures: young readers' edition

By Margot Shetterly. 2016

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography, Award winning non-fiction
Human-narrated audio

The amazing true story of four African American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments…

in our space program. Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country. For grades 3-6. 2019 Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Best Illustration. 2016.

Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

By Margot Lee Shetterly. 2016

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBestsellers (Non-fiction), Biography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Before John Glenn orbited Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as…

“human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. The book follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. Bestseller. 2016.

All things bright and beautiful

By James Herriot. 1976

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio

James is now married and living with his wife on the top floor of Skeldale House, while Siegfried, his former…

boss and now partner, lives downstairs with Siegfried's brother Tristan. James continues the rewarding life of a country vet, bumping over the dales in his small dog-filled car and meeting a host of unforgettable characters. 1976.

All creatures great and small

By James Herriot. 1975

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio

This is the first book in the series about a Yorkshire veterinary practice by the newest member to "the firm".…

With his wry wit and generous warmth he introduces his readers to many local characters as he goes on a daily round of calls wrestling with the ailments of the wide variety of animals he treats. Contains the first 2 books of the series: "If only they could talk" (DC00438) and "It shouldn't happen to a vet" (DC00944) as well as the first 3 chapters of "Let sleeping vets lie" (DC05525). Followed by "All things bright and beautiful". 1975.

The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music

By Steve Lopez. 2008

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Music biography, Science and medicine biography, Music, Social issues
Human-narrated audio

Los Angeles Times columnist describes his relationship with Nathaniel Ayers, a former student at Juilliard, who became homeless after succumbing…

to paranoid schizophrenia. Lopez discusses his and his readers' efforts to expose callous treatment of Ayers and relates Ayers's attempts at recovery. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2008.

Rocket boys: a memoir

By Homer H Hickam. 1998

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio

A retired NASA engineer reminisces about his boyhood in the Sputnik era in West Virginia, when his first rocket attempt…

burned down his mother's garden fence. He and his friends improved their models culminating in winning the 1960 National Science Fair. The movie October Sky is based on this book. 1998.

Always smile: Carley Allison's secrets for laughing, loving and living /

By Alice Kuipers. 2019

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insScience and medicine biography, Women biography, Canadian biography
Human-narrated audio

Carley Allison was an up-and-coming young figure skater and singer who died tragically at the age of 18 of a…

cancer so rare there were only seven cases in the world. In this book, you will come to know Carley in her own words and in the words of the people who knew and loved her. Kuipers weaves the memories of Carley's friends, family, and boyfriend with the blog Carley kept throughout her journey, from the moment she was diagnosed until her final months of searching for treatment that would keep the disease at bay. Kuipers also recreates pivotal moments from Carley's point of view, acting as ventriloquist for a voice lost too young. This book is built around the words she lived by, both in sickness and in health. Above all, again and again, she summed up her philosophy in two words: always smile. For senior high readers. 2019.

Prozac nation: young and depressed in America

By Elizabeth Wurtzel. 1996

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography, Health and medicine
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Wurtzel claims to speak for herself and for a young generation facing major societal problems. A former popular-music critic for…

the New Yorker, she details her life with depression, from a despairing pre-adolescence through suicide attempts after college. Prozac has helped her, but she worries that its trendy reputation may minimize the seriousness of depression.

"Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman!": adventures of a curious character

By Ralph Leighton, Richard P Feynman, Edward Hutchings. 1985

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio

Richard Feynman is one of the world's greatest physicists. He is also a man who has fallen into adventure. He…

is perhaps the only person to have been judged both mentally defective by a United States Army psychiatrist and worthy of the Nobel Prize by the Swedish Academy. 1985.

All things wise and wonderful

By James Herriot. 2000

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insBiography, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

A Yorkshire veterinarian recalls his stint in the R.A.F. during World War II. The homesick service man comforts himself with…

reminiscences of the Yorkshire country, people and animals. Sequel to "All things bright and beautiful". Strong language. 2000, c1977.

American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. 2005

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insScience and technology, Biography, Science and medicine biography, Historical biography, War, United States history
Human-narrated audio

Biography of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)--"the father of the atomic bomb." Chronicles his New York City upbringing, marriage to…

Kitty Puening, work on the Manhattan Project, and life after the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearings which denied Oppenheimer his security clearance for questioning the ethics of nuclear weapons. Pulitzer Prize winner 2006. 2005

Filter results

Filter results

Limit by date

To remove filters, select All content.

Date added

Year published

FAQ

Which devices can I use to read books and magazines from CELA?

Answer: CELA books and magazines work with many popular accessible reading devices and apps. Find out more on ourCompatible devices and formats page.

Go to Frequently Asked Questions page

About us

The Centre for Equitable Library Access, CELA, is an accessible library service, providing books and other materials to Canadians with print disabilities.

  • Learn more about CELA
  • Privacy
  • Terms of acceptable use
  • Member libraries

Follow us

Keep up with news from CELA!

  • Subscribe to our newsletters
  • Blog
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube

Suggestion Box

CELA welcomes all feedback and suggestions:

  • Join our Educator Advisory Group
  • Apply for our User Advisory Group
  • Suggest a title for the collection
  • Report a problem with a book

Contact Us

Email us at help@celalibrary.ca or call us at 1-855-655-2273 for support.

Go to contact page for full details

Copyright 2025 CELA. All rights reserved.