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Such a pretty girl: a story of struggle, empowerment, and disability pride
By Nadina LaSpina. 2020
This is Nadina LaSpina's story-from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a…
fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her and to her rebellion and her activism in the disability-rights movement. LaSpina's personal growth parallels the movement's political development-from coming together, organizing, and fighting against exclusion from public and social life to the forging of a common identity, the blossoming of disability arts and culture, and the embracing of disability pride. While unique, LaSpina's journey is also one with which many disabled people can identify. It is the journey to find one's place in an ableist world-a world not made for disabled people, where disability is only seen in negative terms. LaSpina refutes all stereotypical narratives of disability. Through the telling of her life's story, without editorializing, she shows the harm that the overwhelming focus on pity and on a cure that remains elusive has done to disabled people. Her story exposes the disability prejudice ingrained in our sociopolitical system and denounces the oppressive standards of normalcy in a society that devalues those who are different and denies them basic rightsMy Own Blood: A Memoir
By Ashley Bristowe. 2021
Mothering under normal circumstances takes all you have to give. But what happens when your child is disabled, and sacrificing…
all you've got and more is the only hope for a decent future? Full of rage and resilience, duty and love, Ashley Bristowe delivers a mother's voice like no other we've heard. When their second child, Alexander, is diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, doctors tell Ashley Bristowe and her husband that the boy won't walk, or even talk--that he is profoundly disabled. Stunned and reeling, Ashley researches a disorder so new it's just been named--Kleefstra Syndrome--and she finds little hope and a maze of obstacles. Then she comes across the US-based "Institutes," which have been working to improve the lives of brain-injured children for decades. Recruiting volunteers, organizing therapy, juggling a million tests and appointments, even fundraising as the family falls deep into debt, Ashley devotes years of 24/7 effort to running an impossibly rigorous diet and therapy programme for their son with the hope of saving his life, and her own. The ending is happy: he will never be a "normal" boy, but Alexander talks, he walks, he swims, he plays the piano (badly) and he goes to school.This victory isn't clean and it's far from pretty; the personal toll on Ashley is devastating. "It takes a village," people say, but too much of their village is uncomfortable with her son's difference, the therapy regimen's demands and the family's bottomless need. The health and provincial services bureaucracy set them a maddening set of hoops to jump through, showing how disabled children and their families languish because of criminally low expectations about what can be done to help.My Own Blood is an uplifting story, but it never shies away from the devastating impact of a baby that science couldn't predict and medicine couldn't help. It's the story of a woman who lost everything she'd once been--a professional, an optimist, a joker, a capable adult--in sacrifice to her son. An honest account of a woman's life turned upside down.Sitting pretty: The view from my ordinary, resilient, disabled body
By Rebekah Taussig. 2020
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty 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 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn't fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different storyOur team: The epic story of four men and the world series that changed baseball
By Luke Epplin. 2021
The riveting story of four men — Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige — whose improbable union…
on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond. In July 1947, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball, Larry Doby would follow in his footsteps on the Cleveland Indians. Though Doby, as the second Black player in the majors, would struggle during his first summer in Cleveland, his subsequent turnaround in 1948 from benchwarmer to superstar sparked one of the wildest and most meaningful seasons in baseball history. In intimate, absorbing detail, Luke Epplin's Our Team traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby, a soft-spoken, hard-hitting pioneer whose major-league breakthrough shattered stereotypes that so much of white America held about Black ballplayers; Bob Feller, a pitching prodigy from the Iowa cornfields who set the template for the athlete as businessman; and Satchel Paige, a legendary pitcher from the Negro Leagues whose belated entry into the majors whipped baseball fans across the country into a frenzy. Together, as the backbone of a team that epitomized the postwar American spirit in all its hopes and contradictions, these four men would captivate the nation by storming to the World Series—all the while rewriting the rules of what was possible in sports. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books "Epplin's epic saga is simultaneously a riveting drama and a searing portrait of the racism that plagued baseball for decades. This sharp and well-documented history will be a hit with baseball lovers and general interest readers alike." — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewJackie robinson: Athletes who made a difference
By Blake Hoena. 2021
In an era of discrimination, Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson broke Major League Baseball's race barrier. Before Robinson took his place…
at first base, the majors discriminated against African-American athletes, denying them a chance to compete. Despite facing harassment from fans and other players, Robinson stayed focused on the game, becoming the MLB Rookie of the Year in 1947 and later a baseball legend. This graphic biography follows Robinson's time on semi-pro teams, his days in the US military, and his history-making experience with the Brooklyn DodgersDancing After TEN
By Vivian Chong, Georgia Webber. 2020
In late 2004, Vivian Chong’s life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis), left her…
with scar tissue that would eventually blind her. As she was losing her sight, she put down as many drawings on paper as she could to document the experience. In Dancing After TEN, Chong teams up with cartoonist Georgia Webber — whose graphic autobiography, Dumb, chronicled her own disability — to trace her journey out of the darkness and into the spotlight. Chong now expresses her art through singing, stand-up, drumming, running, and dancing. This graphic novel is an inspirational tale and a powerful work of graphic medicine.Westray: Mon passage des ténèbres à la lumière
By Vernon Theriault. 2019
Dans ce livre, Theriault décrit son expérience dans la mine du comté de Pictou, ses combats personnels à la suite…
du désastre et la façon dont il a donné un sens nouveau à sa vie en participant à la campagne de lobbying de longue haleine du Syndicat des Métallos, qui a mené à l’adoption de la Loi Westray en 2004.Mrs. Beaton's Question: My Nine Years at the Halifax School for the Blind
By Robert Mercer. 2020
?Robert Mercer's life could have been very different. He was born with very low vision and, as a youngster, struggled…
in school. But through the intervention of a caring teacher and the support of his family, he found his way to the Halifax School for the Blind and into the classroom of Mrs. Beaton. It was there that he discovered his voice, a voice he uses to recount his remarkable journey from a shy little boy to a community leader.Soaring into greatness: a blind woman's vision to live her dreams and fly
By Gail L. Hamilton. 2015
Born ten weeks premature and requiring oxygen to survive, Gail Hamilton's first six weeks of life began in an incubator.…
Six months later, doctors discovered that Gail had retrolental fibroplasia (RLF), an eye condition caused by the infusion of 100% pure oxygen. By age eleven, she was completely blind. This book follows Gail's story as her outer visual world merged with her inner vision, forcing her to listen with her inner voice, to follow her heart and tune into her intuition. Subjected to physical and emotional abuse, ostracized and often feeling alone, Gail's journey is one of courage and perseverance. Contains some violence and some descriptions of sex42 is not just a number: the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
By Doreen Rappaport. 2017
Recounts the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball…
and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year, National League MVP, World Series champ, and became an American hero. For grades 5-8. 2017Unforeseen: the first blind Rhodes scholar : a memoir
By James J. Barnes. 2017
A historian's memoir of becoming the first blind Rhodes Scholar in the mid-1950s. Describes the deterioration of the author's eyesight…
during his first year at Oxford and his determination to press on. Relates his subsequent personal and educational achievments, including a PhD from Harvard and a distinguished forty-four-year teaching career. 2017Uppity: my untold story about the games people play
By Bill White, Gordon Dillow. 2012
Memoir of a former first baseman for teams including the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies, who went on…
to a successful career as a sportscaster and served as the president of the National League from 1989 to 1994. Discusses his early career, experiences with segregation, and later successes. Some strong language. 2011Tinker to Evers to Chance: the Chicago Cubs and the dawn of modern America
By David Rapp. 2018
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Chicago Cubs were the dominant team in baseball. This history focuses on…
the three infield players responsible for much of their success: Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance. 2018The shift: the next evolution in baseball thinking
By Russell A. Carleton. 2018
A baseball writer with a background in psychology examines the shift in baseball brought about by analytics systems such as…
sabermetrics. He explains some of the key statistics that drive the game, alongside the idea that numbers should be balanced by the psychological aspects and rituals of the sport. 2018Why baseball matters (Why X Matters Ser.)
By Susan Jacoby. 2018
An historian and fan discusses the sport of baseball and examines whether it is in a state of decline. She…
puts the sport into the context of the modern era of digital distractions, citing its aging fanbase and lower attendance at games and TV viewership. 2018Volver a correr
By Carlos Serván. 2017
Carlos Serván reflects upon his life's trajectory, including becoming blind as a result of a grenade blast as a Peruvian…
police cadet, and his subsequent career as an educator and blind advocate in the United States. Spanish language. 2017A sportswriter talks with the radio and TV broadcasters who help bring baseball to life. Includes a chapter on each…
major league ballpark, providing background on the teams and oral histories from famous local broadcasters who detail one noteworthy game. 2015NON aux étiquettes !: 18 témoignages qui donnent envie de persévérer avec un trouble d'apprentissage (J'apprends la vie)
By Martine Latulippe, Phil Poulin. 2020
Ce livre rassemble 18 témoignages de Québécoises et Québécois de tous horizons, connus ou non, jeunes et moins jeunes, ayant…
un parcours de vie remarquable malgré un trouble d'apprentissage comme la dyslexie, la dysorthographie, la dyscalculie, le TDC (dysparxie), le TDAH ou le TSA. « Malgré » un trouble ? Plutôt « avec », puisqu'ils ont su en faire une force, une occasion de développer leur persévérance et un atout à leur personnalité ! Un recueil essentiel à lire en classe ou à la maison pour découvrir des êtres humains inspirants et leurs précieux conseils pour dire : NON aux étiquettes !Unblinded: one man's courageous journey through darkness to sight
By Traci Medford-Rosow, Kevin Coughlin. 2018
In 1997, thirty-six-year-old Kevin Coughlin's eyesight began to blur, and within five days he had lost his vision. He describes…
learning he has a genetic disorder called Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and how, fifteen years later, he mysteriously began to regain his sight. Includes journal entries. 2018Yogi: the life, loves, and language of baseball legend Yogi Berra
By Terry Widener, Barb Rosenstock. 2019
Profiles baseball Hall of Fame catcher and New York Yankees legend Yogi Berra. Describes how Yogi's physical differences challenged his…
baseball prospects and helped motivate him to prove his abilities as a player, coach, and manager. For grades K-3. 2019