Disability Awareness

Disability Intimacy

Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.

What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more

Time and Time Again

By: Chatham Greenfield
Narrated by: SJ Valiquette
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield, read by SJ Valiquette.

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club LitUp Pick

In this debut YA speculative romance perfect for fans of Rachael Lippincott, two queer, disabled, Jewish teens find themselves stuck in a time loop—and falling love.

Phoebe Mendel’s day is never ending—literally.

On August... Read more

Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest
Narrated by: Ali Stroker
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and much-needed disability representation in this story about a girl who's determined to follow her dreams.By the time Effie Galanos starts her senior year, it feels like she's already been thinking about college applications for an eternity-after all,... Read more

Against Technoableism

Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew
Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume... Read more

Demystifying Disability

What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

By: Emily Ladau
Narrated by: Emily Ladau
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Booklist • “A candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation... Read more

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

A Novel

The Brown Sisters: Book #2

By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Ione Butler
Length: 10 hours

“I loved the second of Talia Hibbert’s Brown Sisters series, Take a Hint, Dani Brown. Like the first, this book features realistic situations and diverse characters, and is also super sexy! Dani is a witchy PhD candidate teaching at a university, her classroom housed in the same building where Zafir Ansari works as a security guard. A former... Read more

Deer Run Home

By: Ann Clare LeZotte
Narrated by: Sarah Tubert
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Effie is Deaf, and no one in her family speaks sign language, her language. This moving story of survival and found family, inspired by a true court case, is perfect for fans of Wonder and Out of My Mind."Will break your heart and then make it whole again." -Holly Goldberg Sloan, New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s"Ann Clare... Read more

The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines

By: Mo Netz
Narrated by: Hope Newhouse
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

In this debut spooky adventure, Jerry and her trusty wheelchair move into a creepy motel at the edge of the woods where nothing is as it seems. When her mom disappears, it’s up to Jerry to brave the forest and its demons so she can save what’s left of her family.Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around... Read more

True Biz

A Novel

By: Sara Novic
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War

“For those who loved the... Read more

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

A novel

By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim & Julian Cihi
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is an epic, multi-decade friendship and coming of age story with flawed but genuine characters that you will be drawn to and connect with...You do NOT need to be a video game person to enjoy this. Unless you live under a literal rock, you will get a large majority of the references, and there are some really... Read more

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults)

First-Person Stories for Today

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Sarah Ann Masse, Anthony Michael Lopez & Alice Wong
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that "sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities,... Read more

Turtles All the Way Down

By: John Green
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

FEATURED ON 60 MINUTES and FRESH AIR

“So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” – The New York Times

Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many... Read more

The Pretty One

On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

By: Keah Brown
Narrated by: Keah Brown
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

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

When the Stars Lead to You

By: Ronni Davis
Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Nicola Yoon meets Jenny Han in a heated first-love romance about two teens who are torn apart one summer by prejudice and mental illness, and find each other once again.

Eighteen-year-old Devon longs for two things: The stars, and the boy she fell in love with last summer.

When Ashton breaks Devon's heart at the end of the most romantic summer... Read more