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Top of the World
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Help
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Just one big advert
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Our aim with this narrative is to share our journey through the labyrinth of cancer treatment—the decisions we faced, the paths we chose, and, most importantly, the lessons we learned.
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Knowing we are not alone!
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The story of Ben Parkinson, MBE, the most injured soldier to have survived Afghanistan....
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Diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with drugs and alcohol....
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Hey guys, you might know me already from one of my social media channels where I talk about the highs and lows of living with Tourette's syndrome....
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In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism....
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Outdated and ableist language used
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Sitting Pretty
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A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most....
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From the author of the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility comes another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms....
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A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist....
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Such courage.
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The Christian classic detailing the remarkable events surrounding the 1967 diving accident that left Joni Eareckson Tada paralyzed. This special 45th anniversary edition of Joni commemorates the worldwide impact of her life story to people living with disabilities....
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Transforming
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This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense....
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Travis is a tough guy an probably not everyone is
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fascinating insight into non verbal autism
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Honest, heartfelt and beautiful
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Amit Patel is working as a trauma doctor when a rare condition causes him to lose his sight within 36 hours....
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Heartwarming
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This Autistic Girl Went to Japan is the inspiring story of a young woman who moved halfway around the world in pursuit of happiness.
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
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Everyone should listen!
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inspiring, entertaining, thought provoking
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Excellent Listen
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Take hold of your own personal journey. Make peace with it. Peace is truth. If you suffer from bipolar disorder (also called manic-depression), or if you love someone who does, then you already know how frustrating and baffling this mental illness can be. This book assures you that there is great hope—through all of life's circumstances. Even though bipolar disorder may put us through extreme challenges each and every day, if we are rigorous about taking the right medications and keeping an appropriate lifestyle, we can effectively stabilize the disease and choose a good life.
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Take hold of your own personal journey. Make peace with it. Peace is truth. If you suffer from bipolar disorder (also called manic-depression), or if you love someone who does, then you already know how frustrating and baffling this mental illness can be. This book assures you that there is great hope—through all of life's circumstances. Even though bipolar disorder may put us through extreme challenges each and every day, if we are rigorous about taking the right medications and keeping an appropriate lifestyle, we can effectively stabilize the disease and choose a good life.
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I Wanted to See
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Ambition to succeed was inborn before the days of sight-saving classes and the many provisions now available. This book is her achievement. Her ambition was to teach teachers.
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This is a story in Victorian England of how in 1884 Frederick Treves, Surgeon and Lecturer in Anatomy at the London Hospital arranged for the "Elephant Man" (whose distorted grotesque face and deformed body made him a "freak") to visit the medical college next to the hospital for the purpose of a lecture. They would later become friends and Treves the savior of the man named John Merrick. This is Treves' memoir.
By: Frederick Treves
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I Kept Walking
- The Unlikely Journey of a Persian Woman with Polio
- By: Minou Soumekh Michlin, Gali Kronenberg
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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I Kept Walking opens in 1940s Tehran when a misguided prank leaves three- year-old Minou frozen in fear. Days later, a doctor breaks the news to her mother: "Your daughter has polio." To understand why nothing is as it seems-the cause of her polio or why her dutiful Jewish mother, who was married off at 13, thwarted her dream of marriage, Minou must flee Iran and confront the psychological toll of her polio. I Kept Walking is the audacious account of a bold young woman who was unwilling to be crushed by polio or the prohibitions of a conservative society.
By: Minou Soumekh Michlin, and others
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God's Got Jokes
- How I Used My Faith and God's Humor to Survive Breast Cancer
- By: Neosho C. Ponder PhD
- Narrated by: Neosho C. Ponder
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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In God’s Got Jokes, author Neosho C. Ponder, allows the listener into the most personal and vulnerable parts of her life. As she battled the hardships of cancer, she learned that some of those who supported her succumbed to their own battles of cancer. You will hear stories such as: Being evicted during chemotherapy, which finally led to her seeing the humor and not choosing to give up. The financial adversity that affects cancer patients too sick to work, those undergoing treatments, and multiple surgeries.
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8 Lessons Lupus Taught Me
- From Surviving to Thriving with Autoimmune Diseases
- By: CallyRae Stone
- Narrated by: CallyRae Stone
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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Written as a narrative short story, CallyRae shares her candid insights as she journeys through surviving with autoimmune diseases. Suffering from chronic daily pain, infections, and extreme fatigue, her outlook was one of frustration and hopelessness. As her life journey down the autoimmune highway took twists and turns, she learned to read the signs and listen to her body, mind, and spirit. She continues on the journey but has replaced pain with vitality, infections with health, and extreme fatigue with immense energy.
By: CallyRae Stone
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Sound of Mind
- Adventures in Schizophrenia
- By: Chase Moon
- Narrated by: Noah Venegas
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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This is a guide for anyone going into a mental asylum or institution for the first time, or if you have a delusional loved one, with a mental illness, this will help you relate to them better in understanding insanity. Now, join me, in the asylum, as together we go on a very odd journey of discovery in my first mental institution experience. Enter a strange world, before I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, as I compete against other game show contestants in a battle to win genetic traits for my family tree.
By: Chase Moon
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Strange Little Girl
- By: Jessica Knight
- Narrated by: Rebekah Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Jessica Knight grew up on a dairy farm in rural Victoria, her crib next door to where all the cows were milked. It's a loving Mormon household, a god-fearing home. While they don't have very much, it's their values and good humor that allows them to laugh at what scares them. All young Jessica wants is to be good and make her parents and her Heavenly Father happy. She cleans the house and helps out with her siblings; all the while being subjected to intensive medical tests and major surgeries. Doctors consider her a puzzle and a medical mystery.
By: Jessica Knight
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I Fight, You Fight
- Life Isn't About the Hand You're Dealt, but How You Choose to Play It
- By: Alex Noble
- Narrated by: Alex Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his life in the ICU. Following a four-day coma and a diagnosis of C4 quadriplegia, Alex’s first words to his brother Zac were, ‘If I fight, you fight.’ These words became a war cry as Alex’s friends, family and community rallied around him, watching in awe as he fought to regain control over his body and defy his diagnosis.
By: Alex Noble
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Breath
- A Triumphant Story of Hope and Survival
- By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe
- Narrated by: Elisa Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of 21 and faced a rare cancer at the age of 30. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills. From her hospitalised childhood to her many friendships, loves and losses, Metcalfe shares the fickle nature of life with candour and warmth. She writes with compelling insight about organ donation, opioid addiction and survivor's guilt, while still managing to find joy amongst the wreckage.
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Dandelion Roots Run Deep
- An Environmental Memoir
- By: Merry Clark, Merrill Clark
- Narrated by: Merry B. Clark
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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"Dandelion Roots Run Deep" is the true story of three generations of tenacious Midwestern women, one in Illinois and two in Michigan. Merry is the third generation, and her mother Merrill, fought for organic agriculture and Michigan's environment from 1967 - 2009. Merrill developed Alzheimer's before finishing her book, so Merry took her story to fruition.
By: Merry Clark, and others
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Elaine, What Happened?
- A History
- By: Zelda Emerson, Arthur Johnson
- Narrated by: Oona Maya, Gary Noon
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Elaine, What Happened? A History follows the thirty year life of Elaine who was born without eyes and had other deformities. Besides trying to find out what caused her defects, it is a history of the changes that took place in the medical field, in public education and most notably in society's customs and attitudes regarding people with disabilities.
By: Zelda Emerson, and others
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Through My Eyes
- By: Vendon Wright
- Narrated by: Bessi Prothero
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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When I was six years old, I started wearing glasses. My view of my low vision quickly changed when I was twenty years old and found out that my brother had suddenly gone blind. He was told that he was suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a disorder that slowly destroys the pigment cells in the eyes. So far, there are no known cures. At the tender age of twenty-one, I was also diagnosed with RP. Since then, I have been slowly going blind, not knowing when my world would finally fade away forever. Battling against such a crippling disease led me through a labyrinth of challenges.
By: Vendon Wright