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My left foot
By Christy Brown. 2003
Christy Brown was born with cerebral palsy, but inside the baby lay the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a…
writer who one day would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is his story: how he fought to learn to read, write, paint and finally type with the toe of his left foot. That was how he wrote his bestseller "Down all the days". 2003.Maternity rolls: pregnancy, childbirth and disability
By Heather Kuttai. 2010
Combining ethnology and memoir, describes the issues surrounding childbirth and motherhood for disabled women. The author, a paraplegic, tells about…
her own hunt for medical advice before getting pregnant - and then about the normal births of her two children - before widening the conversation to other disabled women and sympathetic members of the medical community. Includes strong language. 2010.Masterpieces of medieval literature (The modern scholar)
By Timothy Baker Shutt. 2005
Listening with my heart
By Angela Elwell Hunt, Heather Whitestone-McCallum. 1997
The author tells of growing up deaf after a childhood illness and dreaming first of being a dancer and then…
of being a beauty pageant winner. Crowned Miss America in 1995, Whitestone became the first victor with a disability. She tells of her belief that she is following God's plan and describes the five guiding principles that helped her find success. 1997.Mabel Bell: Alexander's silent partner
By Lilias M Toward, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell. 1984
Love and friendship
By Allan David Bloom. 1993
In this book, finished just before his death in 1992, Bloom asserts that Americans have lost the power of imagination…
that turns sex into love. Bloom believes that love and friendship have become a forgotten art because individuals have lost the ability to express themselves. He examines love in Western literature, from the Bible through the works of such authors as Plato, Shakespeare, and Rousseau, in hopes that his analysis will help change the way people feel. 1993.Based on an issue of the Canadian periodical, Brick, this compendium features 80 essays by writers about their favourite classic…
work of literature. In this collection, Margaret Atwood discusses sex and death in Doctor Glas, Susan Musgrave remembers A.E. Houseman, and Ronald Wright muses about William Golding. Other contributors include Jane Rule, Russell Banks, John Irving, Carole Corbeil, and Bill Richardson. 2000.Legless but smiling: an autobiography
By Norman Croucher. 2001
Despite walking on two below-knee artificial legs, it became Norman Croucher's ambition to climb any one of the world's fourteen…
mountains which exceed 8,000 metres. No one with a considerable disability had climbed anywhere near this high, and his goal was an almost impossible dream: to join, as he put it, 'The five mile high club'. Includes strong language. 2001.Legwork: an inspiring journey through a chronic illness
By Ellen Burstein MacFarlane, Patricia Burstein. 1994
Consumer advocacy investigative reporter MacFarlane was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1986. Although she had suffered suicidal depression in the…
past, she faced MS with determination, even after ironically falling prey to a $100,000 scam "cure." Her marriage failed and her MS progressed until she became triplegic, but she retained her self-confidence throughout. Some strong language. 1994.Lectures on Russian literature
By Fredson Bowers, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1983
Lectures on literature
By Fredson Bowers, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1980
For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here,…
collected for the first time, are his lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. 1980.Daddy bent-legs: the 40-year-old musing of a physically disabled man, husband, and father
By Neil Matheson. 2009
Neil Matheson was born with a physical disability called Cerebral Palsy, and from that day forward, Neil experienced life on…
a pair of crutches. Despite his physical handicap, Neil grew up like any regular kid. Now, at forty-one years of age, the author reflects back on his life story, a journey on crutches, including struggle, triumph, acceptance, love, and salvation. 2009.Between myself and them: stories of disability and difference
By Ed Krause Carol, Carol Krause. 2005
Gutsy, frank, provocative and even confrontational, the 23 contributors to this first-person anthology trace the myriad feelings and experiences that…
go along with growing up disabled across different genders, cultures, classes, and sexualities. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.Joni
By Joni Eareckson Tada, Joe Musser. 1978
At the age of 17 the author was the victim of a diving accident that left her totally paralysed from…
the shoulders down. Here she tells her story of her fight against quadriplegia and depression. 1978.I'm walking as straight as I can: transcending disability in Hollywood and beyond
By Geri Jewell, Ted Nichelson. 2011
Born with cerebral palsy, Jewell inspired a generation when she became the first person with a disability to appear in…
a recurring role on prime-time television. The book's title refers to both Jewell's sexuality and her struggle growing up with cerebral palsy. Describes her experiences from her traumatic birth in Buffalo, New York, to her rise to stardom as a stand-up comic to becoming a television star, as well as her downward spiral, tax problems, drug addiction, and marriage. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2011.In the shadow of memory (American lives)
By Floyd Skloot. 2003
In December 1988, the author was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain. The resulting damage left him totally…
disabled and utterly changed. This book is a candid memoir of living with a brain and a mind that have suddenly been shattered - an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory, unstable balance, and wholesale changes in both cognitive and emotional powers. 2003.I think you're totally wrong: a quarrel
By David Shields, Powell Caleb. 2014
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art - beers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to…
become an artist, but he overcommitted to life, whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. They spend four days at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking; they rewatch My Dinner with André and The Trip, relax in a hot tub, and talk about everything they can think of in the name of exploring and debating life and art, marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal - and, of course, writers and writing. 2014.I'm Eve
By Chris Costner Sizemore, Elen Sain Pittillo. 1977
Illuminations
By Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn. 1973
The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin rank among the most influential of the post-war era. "Illuminations" contains essays on art…
and philosophy, as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and book collecting. 1973. Uniform title: Schriften.Arrival: the story of CanLit
By Nick Mount. 2017
In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon…
that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In "Arrival", acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom? 2017.