Disabled Authors

Being Heumann

By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony-award winning actress Ali Stroker reads the story of Judy Heumann—one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history

A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts... Read more

Such a Pretty Girl

By: Nadina LaSpina

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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... Read more

Sick Kids In Love

By: Hannah Moskowitz

Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier—it's safer—it's better—for the other person.



She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis.



But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic illness Isabel's never heard of, something she can't even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He understands her more... Read more

Falling in Love with Hominids

By: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Nalo Hopkinson, author of Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, and Sister Mine, is an internationally-beloved storyteller. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having "an imagination that most of us would kill for," her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are filled with striking imagery,... Read more

About Us

By: Peter Catapano & Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross & Coleen Marlo

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are—not as others perceive them—About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to those with disabilities, but also to their families, coworkers, and support networks, the authors in... Read more

The Pretty One

By: Keah Brown

Narrated by: Keah Brown

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.

Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire... Read more

Haben

By: Haben Girma

Narrated by: Haben Girma

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an... Read more

The Ables

By: Jeremy Scott

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

I did have fantastic hearing, mostly by virtue of being blind. But that couldn't actually mean that he's trying to tell me I have super powers, right? Because that would be ridiculous.



It wasn't the "sex talk" he expected. Phillip Sallinger's dad has told him he's a custodian—a guardian—and his genetically inherited power is telekinesis. He'll... Read more

Forget Me Not

By: Ellie Terry

Narrated by: Heather Costa & Matt Godfrey

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees... Read more

Unleash Different

By: Rich Donovan

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If you discovered a new market comprising 53% of the world’s population, would you act to invest in it?
There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53% of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market.
Unleash Different illustrates... Read more

A Disability History of the United States

By: Kim E. Nielsen

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present

Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first... Read more

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

By: John Callahan

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1972, at the age of 21, John Callahan was involved in a car crash that severed his spine and made him a quadriplegic. A heavy drinker since the age of 12 (alcohol had played a role in his crash), the accident could have been the beginning of a downward spiral. Instead, it sparked a personal transformation. After extensive physical therapy, he... Read more

Have Dog, Will Travel

By: Stephen Kuusisto

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In a lyrical love letter to guide dogs everywhere, a blind poet shares his delightful story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.

Stephen Kuusisto was born legally blind—but he was also raised in the 1950s and taught to deny his blindness in order to "pass" as sighted.... Read more

Autobiography of a Face

By: Lucy Grealy

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."



At age nine, Lucy... Read more

If at Birth You Don't Succeed

By: Zach Anner

Narrated by: Zach Anner

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and under-prepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future. So how did this hairless mole-rat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation... Read more

The Reason I Jump

By: Naoki Higashida

Narrated by: Tom Picasso

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You' ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought... Read more

Funny, You Don't Look Autistic

By: Michael McCreary

Narrated by: Michael McCreary

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn’t “look” autistic. But, as he’s quick to point out in this memoir, autism “looks” different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary... Read more

My Dyslexia

By: Philip Schultz

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disabilityDespite being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “dummy class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when... Read more

Back in Action

By: David Rozelle

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes. They were wrong.Refusing to let his injury stop him, Captain David Rozelle roared back into action,... Read more