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With love from Karen
By Marie Killilea. 1964
The author recalls the spirit and determination of her daughter--born with cerebral palsy--who triumphs over numerous medical and spiritual trials…
during adolescence. Against the odds Karen learns to swim, type, dress, and operate her wheelchair. Essential to her victory are the family's firm faith, courage, discipline, and love. 1963Reversals: a personal account of victory over dyslexia
By Eileen B Simpson. 1979
A practicing psychotherapist offers an account of life as a victim of dyslexia. She describes the ruses she resorted to…
as a child in school trying to pretend to read, and the frustrated behavior of her teachers, who accused her of indolence and stupidityFanny Crosby
By Bernard Ruffin. 1976
White coat, white cane
By David Hartman. 1978
A step further
By Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Estes. 1978
The crooked shall be made straight
By Rosalie Griesse. 1979
Autobiography of a minister's wife recounts her thirty-three year ordeal with scoliosis. Despite six spinal fusion operations, months of hospital…
confinement in casts, and years in braces, Griesse's courageous endurance serves as an example to others coping with painSide affects: On being trans and feeling bad
By Hil Malatino. 2022
Some days-or weeks, or months, or even years-being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little…
space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the "wrong body." Post transition, trans individuals-especially trans people of color-are subject to unrelenting transantagonism. By moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience, Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and organizing-and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and well-beingLetters to my weird sisters: On autism and feminism
By Joanne Limburg. 2022
An autistic feminist author looks at women's history, in search of her 'weird sisters.' It seemed to me that many…
of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider. Eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time, she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four 'weird sisters' from history, addressing topics including autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the appalling punishments that have been meted out over centuries to those deemed to fall short of the norm. This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanizes women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhereEasy walking
By Jonathan Lewis Nasaw. 1975
Joni
By Joni Eareckson Tada. 1976
Victim of a diving accident that leaves her totally paralyzed from the neck down reveals her struggle to accept and…
adjust through her belief in God. At twenty-six Joni has developed into a skillful artist using her mouth to guide her penI never walked alone
By Jessie Hickford. 1977
Hilary: The brave world of Hilary Pole
By Dorothy Clarke Wilson. 1972
Struck with the rare nerve disease myasthenia gravis at the age of 20, British-born Hilary existed in a world of…
darkness unable to breathe without a respirator or open her eyelids to see. Her spirit unbroken she eventually regained partial use of her toe permitting her to communicate by electric typewriterDebby
By Deborah Zook. 1974
A young blind school teacher from Hazard, Kentucky shares her experiences from the time she began to lose her eyesight,…
as a third grader. She reveals how she rose above her handicap to become a self-sufficient member of societyLouis Braille: windows for the blind
By J. Alvin Kugelmass. 1951
Biography of the inventor of the system of reading that opened the world of books to the blind. Though Braille's…
revolutionary innovation remained unrecognized during his lifetime, it is now used in every language and in every country throughout the world. For high school and adult readersMy eyes have a cold nose
By Hector Chevigny. 1946
Los Angeles radio script writer recounts what he calls his "initiation into the blind world" after he lost his sight…
from retinal detachment. Describes failed surgical procedures, his physical and emotional adjustment, and a return to work and society with the help of his guide dog, Wizard. 1946Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
By Ivan Coyote. 2021
Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet. Writer and performer Ivan Coyote has spent…
decades on the road, telling stories around the world. For years, Ivan has kept a file of the most special communications received from readers and audience members—letters, Facebook messages, emails, soggy handwritten notes tucked under the windshield wiper of their truck after a gig. Then came Spring, 2020, and, like artists everywhere, Coyote was grounded by the pandemic, all their planned events cancelled. The energy of a live audience, a performer’s lifeblood, was suddenly gone. But with this loss came an opportunity for a different kind of connection. Those letters that had long piled up could finally begin to be answered. Care Of combines the most powerful of these letters with Ivan’s responses, creating a body of correspondence of startling intimacy, breathtaking beauty, and heartbreaking honesty and openness. Taken together, they become an affirming and joyous reflection on many of the themes central to Coyote’s celebrated work—compassion and empathy, family fragility, non-binary and Trans identity, and the unending beauty of simply being alive, a giant love letter to the idea of human connection, and the power of truly listening to each other.Keep trying: a practical book for the handicapped
By Joseph Laurance Marx. 1974
A positive work that proves how one can live a professionally, maritally, and socially full existence despite a crippling disability.…
Mr. Marx, who has played baseball and golf, asserts that "the more you do, the more you want to do."Life's Not over, It Just Looks Different
By Christopher Warner. 2016
Life happens, and sometimes it changes in ways that we never expected.After experiencing a surgical complication that rendered me legally…
blind, I decided there were two choices ahead of me: roll over and die, essentially giving in to the fact that life wasn't going to be the same as before, or get on with life and figure out how to move forward with reduced eyesight.This book shares a personal story of trying to bounce back from a life changing event. There were lots of good days and even some funny moments along the way. But no recovery is ever all smooth sailing. There were also bad days, and times when self-doubt and despair took over.The strawberry apple tree
By Grace Daniel Patterson. 1971
Memories of life on a farm in Hughes Springs, Texas when times were frequently difficult, but happy. The author, who…
is blind, describes the warm family relationships, farming methods of the past, and her deep love for the out-of-doors including the "enchanted orchard" where the strawberry apple tree used to growFractured: A memoir
By Susan Mockler. 2023
A collision with a moose on a dark highway left Susan Mockler with an incomplete spinal injury, suddenly compromising her…
ability to walk and to care for herself. She spent months in a rehabilitation facility learning how to adjust to her new reality, and though her body partially recovered, every aspect of her life changed. Fractured is a compelling illumination of the challenges of acquired disability and the ways in which people with disabilities are sidelined and infantilised. Mockler, a psychotherapist, speaks with frank honesty about her family and friends' reactions to her injury, and the hard-won lessons that she and those around her learned from her experience