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Known worldwide as the Armless Archer, Paralympic gold medalist and Guinness World Record holder Matt Stutzman recounts his incredible career as a record-setting athlete and reveals uplifting life lessons in redefining the odds. When Matt Stutzman was born without arms, his birth parents’...

Unmasking Autism meets Notes on Being a Man in this one-of-a-kind reimagining of contemporary masculinity in the autism community. Society’s definition of masculinity—celebrating aggression, sexual conquest, and athleticism—is limiting and outdated for any contemporary man. But it’s even...

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In this empowering and hopeful memoir, Love on the Spectrum stars Lise Smith and Connor Tomlinson share their unfiltered personal experience to provide a roadmap for neurodiverse families. When Love on the Spectrum star Connor Tomlinson was diagnosed with autism at age five, his mother Lise felt...

For readers of The Basketball Diaries, Girl, Interrupted, Beautiful Boy, and Just Kids: A memoir of growing up, soaring, shattering, and recovering Growing up in SoCal in the early 2010s, Nolan Trowe spent his early teenage years living largely on his own, exiled from his family, skateboarding...

If I Were You, I’d Kill Myself is an unapologetic, hilarious, and triumphant memoir that revolutionizes what it means to be disabled. Imani Barbarin was two years old when she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, a congenital motor disability that affects her ability to walk without crutches...

Jenny Sealey has spent her career to date championing the work of Deaf and Disabled artists and the importance of having their stories on our stages and screens. Now, she shares her own experience as a Deaf theatre-maker and advocate in a highly personal book. In this book, she discusses running...

暗闇にいた私の転機は、小学五年生で訪れた──。胸に迫る魂の救済の告白。 読むことはできる。むしろ大好きだ。でも、漢字を習い始めて気づいてしまった。どうやら自分は「普通」ではないらしい。

"We should no longer be seen as being poor, miserable and living off benefits. We can be successful and live a happy and meaningful life. But changing that perception will be a bigger battle than climbing Everest." Hari Budha Magar is a father-of-three, husband and veteran. In 2010, he lost both...

The authorized biography of a brilliant theoretical physicist and science communicator, featuring revelations from never-before-seen personal records, by an award-winning writer and biographer “Deeply researched, unfailingly honest, and accessibly written for readers who are not scientists...

The follow-up to Hanif Kureishi’s extraordinary hospital memoir, Shattered, this is the story of what came next – a year of living at home in London after paralysis, told through scenes of carers, physio, insomnia, sex, money, football, film sets, festivals and family. The song ‘Are You...

Mit Anfang dreißig sollte das Leben eigentlich gerade beginnen. Doch für Leona ist es ein Kampf. ME/CFS und andere chronische Krankheiten nehmen ihr Schritt für Schritt alles, was früher selbstverständlich war. Immer wieder muss sie sich rechtfertigen, erklären, kämpfen – gegen ein System, das sie nicht sieht, gegen einen Körper, der nicht mehr mitspielt. Und trotzdem findet sie zwischen all dem etwas, das stärker ist als jede Diagnose: ihren Willen, weiterzumachen.

Lina Hjalmarsson Lyons’s clarity about her own autism experience confronts the listener with the confusing anomalies inherent in this complex condition. “I think it’s so hard for people to incorporate the paradox of autism,” she writes. “I think that life with someone on the severe end of the spectrum is a life full of suffering and a life full of bliss.”

En el verano de 2023, en un archipiélago del Mediterráneo, la hélice de un barco le hizo un cuerpo nuevo a la autora de esta historia. Perdió parte de la pierna derecha, que se convirtió en el fantasma que cruza esta historia narrada con sensibilidad, sentido crítico, humor y belleza. Esta es la memoria de una pérdida, pero también un ensayo sobre la sanidad pública, la fama, la guerra, los chistes del sistema nervioso, el amor y la amistad.

In the mid-twentieth century, on the dust-worn streets of Ardmore, Oklahoma, lived a vibrant and spirited girl named Mary Ellen. She radiated boundless joy until life took unexpected turns. Her father marched off to World War II on the thunderous trains she adored. Then, at only five or six years old, her hearing began its cruel and relentless fade. The beloved roar and lonely whistles of those trains slowly vanished into a heartbreaking silence. Before reaching adolescence, she learned to rely on lip reading to compensate for the sounds that were being taken from her.

Behind the Shutters is a powerful and unforgettable story of courage, resilience, and the human spirit’s refusal to be defined by limitation. Set against the backdrop of the 1960s—a time when families were often encouraged to institutionalize disabled children “for their own good”—this novel follows Stephie, a blind child growing up in institutional care, learning to survive in a world that was never designed to see her.

When you are successful, it is easy to take your health for granted—until life suddenly changes direction and everything you once depended on begins to disappear. Broken in London is the true story of one man's journey from financial success to financial breakdown as chronic pain, depression and anxiety slowly change every part of his life.

"But you look just fine..." These words echo through the lives of millions suffering from invisible illnesses. In this powerful and transformative memoir, Michele Roys takes listeners on an intimate journey through the hidden world of chronic pain and invisible illness.

This is the story of my illness. Cancer was never really a thought. This book is all about my diagnosis and strange symptoms. The many treatments, medication trials, tests, doctor appointments. I was thrust into a world as a patient that I'd always been the caregiver. A true account of a medical mystery.

What happens when a child who learns differently grows up believing the world has already decided what he can become? Sunshine & Rainbows is the true story of a boy growing up in a self-contained special education classroom, struggling to read, fit in, make friends, and understand why he seemed so different from everyone around him. From the birthday party nobody attended and the small school bus that separated him from his classmates, to the written tests that followed him into adulthood and repeatedly stood between him and new careers, his life was shaped by expectations he never chose.