Disabled Authors

Lucky

By: Ed Jackson

Narrated by: Ed Jackson

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

‘What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend.’ Joe Wicks ‘A life-affirming story . . . inspirational’ Tim Peake As seen in the Daily Mail From tragedy to triumph, one step at a time – an... Read more

Hard Landings

By: Cammie McGovern

Narrated by: Cammie McGovern

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A game-changing exploration of what the future holds for the first generation of mainstreamed neurodiverse kids that is coming of age.

After sleepless nights, intensive research, and twenty-one years of raising a child, Ethan, with autism and intellectual disability, Cammie McGovern is approaching a distinct catch-22. Once Ethan turns twenty-two,... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff

By: James Tate Hill

Narrated by: Curtis Armstrong

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, he used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact,... Read more

I Live a Life Like Yours

By: Jan Grue

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jan Grue was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. Shifting between specific periods of his life—his youth with his parents and sister in Norway; his years of study in Berkeley, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam; and his current life as a professor, husband, and father—he intersperses these histories with elegant, astonishingly... Read more

We're Not Broken

By: Eric Garcia

Narrated by: Eric Garcia

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language.”

With a reporter’s eye and an insider’s... Read more

Phantompains

By: Therese Estacion

Narrated by: Therese Estacion

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Therese Estacion survived a rare infection that nearly killed her, but not without losing both her legs below the knees, several fingers, and reproductive organs. Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with dreamlike surrealism.Taking inspiration from Filipino horror... Read more

Rolling Warrior

By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for readers of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong.

“If I didn’t fight, who would?”

Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and... Read more

There Plant Eyes

By: M. Leona Godin

Narrated by: M. Leona Godin

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight.
 
There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture,... Read more

Singing in the Dark

By: Ginny Owens

Narrated by: Ginny Owens

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Far too often, life’s challenges and questions cause people to fight feelings of doubt and despair, as they search endlessly for hope. In Singing in the Dark, Ginny Owens introduces the reader to powerful ways of drawing closer to God and how the elements of music, prayer, and lament offer rich, vibrant, and joyful communion with Him, especially... Read more

What to Say Next

By: Sarah Nannery & Larry Nannery

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Using her personal experience living as a professional woman with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sarah Nannery, together with her husband, Larry, offers this timely communication guide for anyone on the Autism spectrum looking to successfully navigate work, life, and love.

When Sarah Nannery got her first job at a small nonprofit, she thought she... Read more

The Kids of Widney Junior High Take Over the World!

By: Mathew Klickstein

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Before they became the world-famous Kids of Widney High, they first had to survive junior high! This rock band, composed entirely of members with developmental disabilities, loves to put on a show, but boy can they can get into fights, trouble, and sticky situations. Join their friend and honorary assistant manager Robbie as he introduces the... Read more

What Doesn't Kill You

By: Tessa Miller

Narrated by: Tessa Miller

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting and candid account of a young journalist's awakening to a life of chronic illness, weaving together her personal story with reporting to shed light on how Americans live with long-term diagnoses today.

Tessa Miller was an ambitious twentysomething writer in New York City when, on a random fall day, her stomach began to seize up. At... Read more

The Wolven Mark

By: Megan Linski

Narrated by: Maxx Pinkins & Liana Walsh

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding your soulmate can be deadly…EmmaI never believed magic was real– until I used it to kill a werewolf.Not long after, a letter arrived from a supernatural school for fae, claiming I was a sorceress. I’m forced into a world where dragons breathe fire, griffins fly, alicorns battle and wolves hunt monsters. At this academy, sorceresses are... Read more

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

Autism in Heels

By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole

Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, she exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing the... 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: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson & Peter Catapano

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo & Jonathan Todd Ross

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

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 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

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