Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

The Orange Houses

By: Paul Griffin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Tamika Sykes?Mik to her friends (if she had any). She?s hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks forward to the time each day when she can be alone in her room drawing. She?s a tough girl who never gets close to anyone, until she meets Fatima, a... Read more

Samurai Kids #2: Owl Ninja

By: Sandy Fussell

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the valley, a drumbeat echoes. For ten days, the drum will call the mountain ryus to war, including the samurai kids from the Cockroach Ryu. Only Japan’s feudal emperor can stop the war, so Niya and Sensei Ki-Yaga set off on a grueling journey with all the Cockroaches, whose firm friendship and unusual skills must be put to the test in... Read more

Samurai Kids #1: White Crane

By: Sandy Fussell

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a one-legged boy become a great samurai warrior? Meet some unique aspiring champions in this kick-off to an exciting new martial arts series.Niya Moto is the only one-legged samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. The one school that will accept him is the Cockroach Ryu, led by the legendary sensei Ki-Yaga. He... Read more

Samurai Kids #3: Shaolin Tiger

By: Sandy Fussell

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The White Tiger Temple is under threat. To help the Shaolin monks, Sensei Ki-Yaga and the whole gang of samurai kids embark on a perilous journey across the Sea of Japan to China. But they soon discover that getting there is only half the battle. An enemy awaits them: a former student of Sensei’s named Qing-Shen, China’s Warrior, who is now the... Read more

Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II

By: Ron Koertge

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful but troubled Colleen Minou is the only girl who ever looked at Ben Bancroft as more than just a spaz—more than that kid with cerebral palsy. But the more time Ben spends with Colleen, the more glaring their differences appear, which makes him wonder if what he feels for her is actual affection or if it’s just gratitude.And then there’s... Read more

Be Different

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.”
 
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents... Read more

The Outside of a Horse

By: Ginny Rorby

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“There’s nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.”—old English proverbThe stories Hannah Gale’s father told her of breaking wild horses in Nevada one glorious summer when he was her age have captured her imagination. After her dad is called to fight in Iraq, she regularly stops to watch the horses at the nearby stable... Read more

The Running Dream

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Laura Flanagan

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story that’s perfect for anyone who’s ever thought that something was impossible. Readers will revel in the story of a girl who puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before—after she’s told she’ll never run again.

Jessica thinks her life is over when she... Read more

Twin

By: Allen Shawn

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A heartbreaking yet deeply hopeful memoir about life as a twin in the face of autismWhen Allen Shawn and his twin sister, Mary, were two years old, Mary began exhibiting signs of what would be diagnosed years later as autism. Understanding Mary and making her life a happy one appeared to be impossible for the Shawns. With almost no warning, her... Read more

Dancing with Max

By: Emily Colson

Narrated by: Emily Colson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of a single mother's love and perseverance, her son's autism diagnosis with its challenges and gifts, and their triumph together over life's toughest obstacles.Journey with Emily Colson--daughter of former White House Special Counsel Chuck Colson--as she takes you from her darkest days of pain to her adventure through life. With... Read more

Married to Distraction - Abridged

By: Edward Hallowell, Sue Hallowell & Melissa Orlov

Narrated by: Edward Hallowell & Sue Hallowell

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic connections, and interrupted moments. Now Edward M. Hallowell, the bestselling co-author of Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction, teams up with his wife, Sue George Hallowell, a couples’ therapist,... Read more

A Good School

By: Richard Yates

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.

In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's... Read more

We've Got Issues

By: Judith Warner

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Are parents and physicians too quick to prescribe medication to control our children’s behavior? Are we using drugs to excuse inept parents who can’t raise their children properly?

Judith Warner sparked a national debate on how women and society view motherhood with her previous book Perfect Madness.We’ve Got Issues will generate the same kind of... Read more

Cowboy & Wills

By: Monica Holloway

Narrated by: Monica Holloway

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Christened “charming” and “winning” by the Washington Post and “touching” by Publishers Weekly, celebrated author Monica Holloway’s deeply moving memoir shares the unforgettable story of an extraordinary little boy and the irresistible puppy who transformed his life.

The day Monica Holloway learns that her lovable, brilliant three-year-old son... Read more

Thinking in Pictures

By: Temple Grandin

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin... Read more

Step Out on Nothing

By: Byron Pitts

Narrated by: Byron Pitts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room.” Good luck, Brotha! You’ve come a long way to get here. You’ve earned it.” …If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, “I’m... Read more

Step Out on Nothing - Abridged

By: Byron Pitts

Narrated by: Byron Pitts

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it."
…If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm... Read more

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

By: Gennifer Choldenko

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

When I first moved here, I thought all the bad guys were on one side of the bars and all the good guys were on the other. But lately, I’ve begun to wonder . . .

Moose’s family moved to Alcatraz so his father could work as a guard and his sister could attend a special school in San Francisco. Living on an island with a few hundred no-name hit... Read more

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

By: Jack Gantos

Narrated by: Jack Gantos

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Joey Pigza can't sit still. He can't pay attention, he can't follow the rules, and he can't help it–especially when his meds aren't working. Joey's had problems ever since he was born, problems just like his dad and grandma have. And whether he's wreaking havoc on a class trip or swallowing his house key, Joey's problems are getting worse. In... Read more

Healing and Preventing Autism

By: Jenny McCarthy & Jerry Kartzinel MD

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Since 2006, autism has become the leading disorder affecting children in the United States. As children continue to be diagnosed at epidemic rates and parents struggle to find help, a school of DAN (Defeat Autism Now) pediatricians has been pioneering therapies and treatments that help reverse the effects of autism. DAN doctors have discovered... Read more

Anything But Typical

By: Nora Raleigh Baskin

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Jason Blake is an autistic 12-year-old living in a neurotypical world. Most days it’s just a matter of time before something goes wrong. But Jason finds a glimmer of understanding when he comes across PhoenixBird, who posts stories to the same online site as he does. Jason can be himself when he writes, and he thinks that PhoenixBird – her name... Read more

Marcelo in the Real World

By: Francisco Stork

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear–part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo’s differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer. . . to join “the real world.”

There Marcelo meets... Read more

Things That Are

By: Andrew Clements

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Popular children's author Andrew Clements scored a young adult hit with Things Hoped For. Things That Are continues the story of Bobby Phillips-the boy who woke up one day to find himself invisible-and his friend and confidante, a blind girl named Alicia. Bobby is returning from college visits in New York, and Alicia has decided to finally... Read more

Mother Warriors

By: Jenny McCarthy

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories of hope and recovery from a nation of parents of autistic children by the high-profile bestselling author ofLouder than WordsWhen Jenny McCarthy published the story of her successful efforts to save her son from autism, the response was tremendous, including a number-three rank on the New York Times bestseller list and an appearance on... Read more