People with Disabilities

Telling the story of Mattie as only his mother could, Jeni Stepanek recounts the intimate moments of her little boy’s life, a life that became larger than...

Cory Friedman Woke Up One Morning When He Was Five Years Old With The Uncontrollable Urge To Twitch His Neck. From That Day Forward His Life Became A Hell O...

Sunrise On The Pier -- Morning Coffee -- Pumpkin Season -- Shaping Heartsongs -- Awakening After A Close Call -- Wishes -- Mosaic Of Gifts -- Embracing Each...

In the ten years since Rachel Simon first invited the world to board the bus with her and her sister, Cool Beth, readers across the globe have been moved b...

The New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the basis of the major motion picture starring Jake Gyllenhaa...

Margaret Jacobson Was A Sweet-natured Young Girl Who Played The Accordion And Had Dreams Of Becoming A Teacher Until She Had A Psychotic Break In Her Teens,...

The first major anthology by parents with disabilities. How does a father who is blind take his child to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated w...

This Is An Edited Collection That Tackles A Range Of Issues That Affect Autistic Women, Including Chapters On Growing Up, Identity, Diversity, Parenting, In...

The Revelatory, Poignantstory Of Rosemary Kennedy, The Eldest And Eventually Secreted-away Kennedy Daughter, And How Her Life Transformed Her Family, Its Wo...

Eric Davidson Was A Beautiful, Fair-haired Toddler When The Halifax Explosion Struck, Killing Almost 2,000 People And Seriously Injuring Thousands Of Others...

Spencer West is many things. Accomplished speaker. University graduate. Natural prankster. Former cheerleader. And a young man without legs—something that...

In this dual autobiography, father and son discuss their war experiences in Vietnam, how the tragedy of cancer--caused by exposure to Agent Orange--has affe...

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS. This unspari...

A raw, beautiful memoir of a girl born missing an ear, a medical system insistent on saving her from herself, and our culture’s desire to “fix” bodie...

The parents of a child born without hearing describe their efforts to reach across the barrier of silence to teach their daughter to speak and enjoy a norma...

The Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator uses her extraordinary story to equip others to meet whateve...

"This is a story of two battles, a battle to keep out 'the world' and a battle to join it." She inhabits a place of chaos, cacophony, and dancing light--w...

From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his guntoting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk H...

The Author Describes Her Life With Autism And How She Has Used Her Strong Visual Sensibility To Cope With It. Thinking In Pictures : Autism And Visual Thoug...

For the millions of adults diagnosed with ADHD The Disorganized Mind will provide expert guidance on what they can do to make the most of their lives. The...

A Moving Account Of Resilience, Hope, Fear And Mortality, And How These Things Resonate In Our Lives, By Actor And Advocate Michael J. Fox. The Entire World...

The poignant, funny, and truly unique observations of a young writer diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. "Please be forewarned that you are about to read ...

A bestseller in Canada and Australia, this is the incredible story of a woman who struggled with severe learning disabilities, built herself a better brain...

Product Description From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—a groundbre...

Once in nine lives,something extraordinary happens...The last thing Gwen Cooper wanted was another cat. She already had two, not to mention a phenomenally ...

A Moving Account Of Resilience, Hope, Fear And Mortality, And How These Things Resonate In Our Lives, By Actor And Advocate Michael J. Fox.Categories: Healt...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own m...

At three, Ben still hadn't started talking. Karen Foli took her son to a speech and hearing clinic. The clinicians found Ben's speech was delayed by one to...

We need reminders of God's power now more than ever. We often think about prayer as a wish list, with God as Santa Claus. The reality is that the power of...

A Powerful, Blazingly Honest, Inspiring Memoir: The Story Of A 1,100 Mile Solo Hike That Broke Down A Young Woman Reeling From Catastrophe--and Built Her Ba...

Terry Fox, the one-legged runner from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, made an indelible impression upon people across Canada and around the world. An out...

A beautifully illustrated 30th anniversary celebration of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion Tour, which broke barriers for people with disabilities and inspired ...

A Thorn in My Pocket is Eustacia Cutler’s story of raising her daughter, Temple Grandin, in the conservative “Leave-it-to-Beaver” world of the fifties...

An Explosive Book That Exposes The Abuses Of Institutionalization. How Many Brothers And Sisters Do You Have? It Was One Of The First Questions Kids Asked E...

The Author Describes Life Growing Up Different In An Odd Family, His Unusual Talents, His Struggle To Live A Normal Life, His Diagnosis At The Age Of Forty ...

For readers of Kristine Barnett's The Spark, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surpris...

Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and ...