Disability Memoir

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    • By: Molly Burke
    • Narrated by: Molly Burke
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • As a child, Molly Burke was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa and became completely sightless as a teenager. Now an award-winning YouTube star and global influencer, Molly shares what it’s like to be a purple-haired, pink-obsessed fashion and makeup lover in a seeing world....

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    • My Life with Cerebral Palsy
    • By: Fran Macilvey
    • Narrated by: Fran Macilvey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran’s mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange....

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    • One Family's Journey from Tragedy to Empowerment through Faith, Medicine, and the Healing Power of Music
    • By: Jerome Preisler, The Trush Family
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-13
    • Language: English
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    • >Daniel’s Music is the gripping story of Daniel’s recovery against odds experts said were insurmountable....

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    • Finding the Faith and Courage to Follow Your Dreams
    • By: Jen Bricker
    • Narrated by: Jen Bricker
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Jen Bricker was born without legs. Shocked and uncertain they could care for her, her biological parents gave her up for adoption....

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    • By: Stephen Kuusisto
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Blindness in the 1950s was a social stigma. Stephen's mother wanted a normal life for him, so he fought desperately to uphold the illusion of sight....

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    • The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II
    • By: Ben Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The GIs called her Joey. Hundreds owed their lives to the tiny Filipina who stashed explosives in spare tires, tracked Japanese troop movements, and smuggled maps of fortifications....

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    • How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity
    • By: Ben Mattlin
    • Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • No one thought Ben Mattlin would live past childhood. But that didn’t stop him.....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: John Cotter
    • Narrated by: John Cotter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • John Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head....

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    • By: Mimi Hayes
    • Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Former high school teacher and New York-based comedian Mimi Hayes is a brain injury survivor. I'll Be OK, It's Just a Hole in My Heard is her honest memoir about recovering from a traumatic head injury at the age of 22....

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    • By: Emma Carey
    • Narrated by: Emma Carey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Emma Carey shares an extraordinary true story of resilience, courage, hope and finding lightness after the heaviest of landings....

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    • How a Blind Equestrian and Her "Seeing Eye Horse" Rescued Each Other
    • By: Lissa Bachner
    • Narrated by: Johanna Parker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 26-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • The extraordinary bond between Lissa Bachner, a young blind woman, and Milo, a neglected, frightened horse, helped them become one of America's most inspiring, successful riding teams in the world of show jumping....

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    • On Disability, Equality and Ten-Point Turns
    • By: Lottie Jackson
    • Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this heartfelt, thought-provoking and often hilarious book, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability....

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    • 18,000 Miles Down Africa with Parkinson’s
    • By: Guy Deacon
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • At the age of sixty, and having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over ten years, Guy Deacon CBE set out on one last adventure: to drive solo from his home in the UK 18,000 miles and through twenty-five countries to Cape Town on the southern tip of Africa.

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    • By: Wendy Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Wendy Mitchell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A phenomenal memoir, Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave affirmation of the woman dementia has seen her become.

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    • An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World
    • By: Laura James
    • Narrated by: Louiza Patikas
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • What do you do when you wake up in your mid-40s and realize you've been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic....

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    • How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About It
    • By: Pete Wharmby
    • Narrated by: Pete Wharmby
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • The modern world is built for neurotypicals. Needless noise, bright flashing lights, small talk, implication and ‘unwritten rules’; it can be a nightmarish dystopia as far as the autistic population is concerned....

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    • By: Rodney Barker
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged - 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic....

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    • Your guide to turning loss and grief into happiness
    • By: Lucy Edwards
    • Narrated by: Lucy Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Lucy Edwards is a UK-based blind broadcaster, content creator, Pantene Ambassador and disability activist. Part memoir and part self-help guide, this book follows Lucy's journey from tragic sight loss to becoming a thriving career woman....

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