Disability Employment Awareness Month

Look at It This Way

The Blind Leading the Sighted

By: Sammy SweetSpirit
Narrated by: Sammy SweetSpirit
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

A powerful book that creates a conversation around the topic of blindnessLook at It This Way answers questions we all may have been reluctant to ask, it gives us a glimpse into what blind people experience living in a sighted world, and it breaks through barriers that may cause people to think that differences equate to superiority or... Read more

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Life of a Cactus

By: Dusti Bowling
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

“'Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus' will leave your heart open to all things you might think impossible. You'll quickly become friends with Aven as she navigates the horrors of being the new kid in Middle School, solves a mystery at the theme park her parents manage, and reveals that our disabilities don't define us. Read more

The Inflamed Mind

A Radical New Approach to Depression

By: Edward Bullmore
Narrated by: Edward Bullmore & Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

With a foreword read by the author.

Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward Bullmore's The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to... Read more

No Time Like the Future

An Optimist Considers Mortality

By: Michael J. Fox
Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“With no hint of self-pity, actor Michael J. Fox gives a clear-eyed take on the daily challenges of living with Parkinson's. His honesty and resilience in coping with the physical devastation he faces every waking moment is no less than remarkable. Read more

Talent

How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

By: Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

This audiobook includes a bonus conversation between the authors.

The art and science of talent search: how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people.

How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or... Read more

How to Be Human

An Autistic Man's Guide to Life

An Inspiring Memoir

By: Jory Fleming
Narrated by: Jory Fleming & Lyric Winik
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

“While adamant that his experience is one of many, Jory Fleming's How to Be Human is so much more than a memoir about autism. This book is a celebratory reminder that people are different in so many ways and expecting otherwise is harmful to all of us. I walked away from this book hopeful about what the world could be if we just slow down and... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff

By: James Tate Hill
Narrated by: Curtis Armstrong
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

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

Jubilee

The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream

By: KT Johnston
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
Length: 19 minutes

Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. But how do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with... Read more

I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder

A Memoir

By: Sarah Kurchak
Narrated by: Zura Johnson
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Sarah Kurchak is autistic. She hasn’t let that get in the way of pursuing her dream to become a writer, or to find love, but she has let it get in the way of being in the same room with someone chewing food loudly, and of cleaning her bathroom sink. In I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, Kurchak examines the... Read more

Such a Pretty Girl

A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

By: Nadina LaSpina
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

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

Autism in Heels

The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole
Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

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

Fearlessly Different

An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage

By: Mickey Rowe
Narrated by: Mickey Rowe
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Growing up, Mickey Rowe was told that he couldn’t enter the mainstream world.

He was iced out by classmates and colleagues, infantilized by well-meaning theatre directors, barred from even earning a minimum wage. Why? Because he is autistic.

Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor’s Journey to Broadway’s Biggest Stage is Mickey Rowe’s inspiring... Read more

Easy Beauty

By: Chloé Cooper Jones
Narrated by: Chloé Cooper Jones
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

“The subtitle ‘memoir’ doesn't do justice to this spectacular, sui generis meditation on art, disability, parenting, and travel. It's about more than memory — it's about living in the now and creating the future we want for our children. Read more

Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded

A Different Way of Seeing Autism

By: Barry M. Prizant
Narrated by: Barry M. Prizant
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Winner of the Autism Society of America’s Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in Autism

A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human—this is “required reading....Breathtakingly simple and profoundly positive” (Chicago Tribune).

Autism therapy... Read more

Measure of Serenity

By: Bryan Prosek
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

A million thoughts, but only one right thing to do.Eighteen-year-old Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes everything, all the time. Awkward. When her father suddenly disappears, Serenity follows his trail to a parallel dimension. The feds on the other side claim to want to help her go home, if she helps... Read more

Impossible Music

By: Sean Williams
Narrated by: David Linski
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

When a teen musician goes deaf, his quest to create an entirely new form of music brings him to a deeper understanding of his relationship to the hearing world, of himself, and of the girl he meets along the way.Music is Simon’s life—which is why he is devastated when a stroke destroys his hearing. He resists attempts to help him adjust to his... Read more