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The far land

By Eva MacLean. 1993

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Historical biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Eva MacLean left her settled, Presbyterian Ontario life behind to accompany her young minister-veternarian husband to the "wilds" of northwestern…

B.C. in the early 1900s, during times of mining rushes and railroad-building. 1993.

The diving-bell and the butterfly: A Memoir Of Life In Death

By Jean-Dominique Bauby. 1997

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Movie and television tie-insBiography, Biography of persons with disabilities
Human-narrated audio
The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only functioning muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable account of being locked inside his own body. 1997.

The cowboy legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American frontier (The west series ; #7)

By John Jennings. 2015

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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Before Owen Wister's publication of "The Virginian" in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime…

novel. This book details the evidence that Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister's cowboy. 2015.

The courage to compete: living with cerebral palsy and following my dreams

By Elizabeth Kaye, Abbey Curran. 2015

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Women biography
Human-narrated audio

Abbey Curran lives by the motto "If you can dream it, you can do it." She was born with cerebral…

palsy, but early on she resolved to never let it limit her. Abbey made history when she became the first contestant with a disability to win a major beauty pageant. After earning the title of Miss Iowa, she went on to compete in Miss USA. Growing up on a hog farm in Illinois, Abbey competed in local pageants despite naysayers who told her not to. After realizing her own dream, she went on to help other disabled girls achieve their goals by starting Miss You Can Do It, a national nonprofit pageant for girls and women with challenges and special needs. In this uplifting memoir, Abbey tells a story of overcoming the odds, fulfilling her life's goals, and finding in herself the courage to compete, even as she continues to inspire the same spirit in others. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.

The elk hunt

By Alan Edward Nourse. 1986

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Science and medicine biography
Human-narrated audio

At age 52, the author was stricken by a massive heart attack while hunting elk. He reveals his torturous recovery…

and the strains his illness placed on himself and his family. 1986.

The education of Laura Bridgman: first deaf and blind person to learn language

By Ernest Freeberg. 2001

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Biography of persons with disabilities, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Disabilities, Blindness and visual impairment
Human-narrated audio

Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…

at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.

The bone and sinew of the land: America's forgotten black pioneers and the struggle for equality

By Anna-Lisa Cox. 2018

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History, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio
This is the story of the brave black pioneers who escaped slavery and settled the frontier, even as America headed toward civil war. 2018.

The center cannot hold: my journey through madness

By Elyn R Saks. 2007

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Women biography
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Professor of psychiatry Elyn R. Saks writes about her struggle with schizophrenia in this unflinching account of her mental illness.…

Saks draws readers into a nightmare world of medications, a misguided health care system, and social stigmas. But she would not be defeated. With a strength and force of will that most can only imagine, Saks reclaimed her life and went on to achieve great success. 2007.

The boy in the moon: a father's search for his disabled son

By Ian Brown. 2009

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionBiography of persons with disabilities, Science and medicine biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Disabilities
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…

it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.

The body silent: The Different World Of The Disabled

By Robert Francis Murphy. 1987

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities
Human-narrated audio

In 1976, Robert Murphy first learns that he has a spinal tumour; he now is paralyzed from the neck down.…

He relates his medical treatment and suffering, but also examines the role of the disabled in society. He draws from history, literature, sociology, and psychology as a basis for his views and his means of coping. 2001, c1987.

Terry Fox: his story

By Leslie Scrivener. 1981

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Sports biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
Twenty-one-year old Terry, who lost a leg to cancer, ran part way across Canada to raise money for cancer research, stopping only when he again became ill. 1981.

Succeeding with LD: 20 true stories about real people with LD

By Jill Lauren. 1997

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities
Human-narrated audio

Profiles of twenty individuals who prevailed over various learning differences (LD), such as dyslexia and attention-deficit disorder. Each narrative account…

describes a particular LD, the obstacles it presented, and efforts to overcome its limitations. Grades 5-8. c1997.

Talk to the hand

By Nicole Dryburgh. 2010

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Science and medicine biography, Women biography, Blindness and visual impairment
Human-narrated audio

Nicole went through surgery to remove a malignant tumour on her spine, then radiotherapy, a brain haemorrhage, blindness, loss of…

movement, chemotherapy, more chemotherapy, loss of hearing, more radiotherapy, and more surgery. Nicole also has raised thousands of pounds for charity, passed GCSE English after just 6 months' study, gone abseiling, visited New York, had meetings with royalty and government ministers, been the subject of a BBC TV documentary, won numerous national and local awards, and worked for the Teenage Cancer Trust. "Talk to the Hand" is a continuation of Nicole's very full life story, and includes her tips for overcoming setbacks and crises. 2010.

SIDA, témoignage sur la vie et la mort de Martin

By Hélène Laygues. 1985

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Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Science and medicine biography, Family and relationships
Human-narrated audio
Ce temoignage dresse le portrait saisissant d'une epoque, la notre, qui redecouvre avec effroi que la sexualite reste une affaire dangereuse. 1985.

Snowshoes & spotted dick: letters from a wilderness dweller

By Chris Czajkowski. 2003

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Adventurers and explorers, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Nature
Human-narrated audio

The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness. The author describes her experiences as…

she builds a cabin in the wilderness and relates the complications of the "simple life" - how she breaks trails by snowshoe, encounters grizzly bears, builds a stone oven and learns to bake bread - and spotted dick. 2003.

Spilsbury's coast: pioneer years in the wet West

By Howard White, Jim Spilsbury. 1987

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Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

Spilsbury's Coast is the inside passage between the Fraser River and the top of Vancouver Island. Jim Spilsbury spent 10…

of his early years in a tent on the beach. He went on to start Canada's largest domestic airline. c1987.

So who's perfect!: people with visible differences tell their own stories

By Dhyan Cassie. 1984

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography of persons with disabilities, Disabilities
Human-narrated audio

Presents interviews with handicapped or physically "different" people. They tell of their experiences in childhood, school, social and work life,…

religious faith, and what they would like to share with society. 1984.

Song without words: discovering my deafness halfway through life (A merloyd Lawrence Book Ser.)

By Gerald Shea. 2013

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Biography of persons with disabilities
Human-narrated audio

At the age of thirty-four, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been partially deaf since childhood, yet somehow managed to…

navigate his way through Andover, Yale, and Columbia Law School, and to establish an international legal career. Shea had compensated for his deafness through sheer determination and an amazing ability to translate the melody of vowels. His experience gives fascinating new insight into the nature and significance of language, the meaning of deafness, the fierce controversy between advocates of signing and of oral education, and the longing for full communication that unites us all. 2013.

Sisters in the wilderness: the lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill

By Charlotte Gray. 1999

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill came to Canada with their husbands in the early 1800s. Both women recorded…

their experiences as pioneers in the new country in books that would later be held up as early examples of Canadian literature. Here, Gray sheds light on what their lives were like in relation to each other, in relation to their families, and in relation to the harsh environment that surrounded them every day. 1999.

Salt of the earth: the story of homesteaders in Western Canada

By Heather Robertson. 1974

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Historical biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
Human-narrated audio

The homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian West from 1880 to 1914 tell their own story of harshness, isolation, and…

back-breaking toil. Conveys a strong, sympathetic sense of the land and the people who settled in the Prairies. 1974.

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