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Dreams To Actuality: From Wheelchair to Rancher—The Broderick Nixon Story is a powerful true story of resilience, faith, entrepreneurship, and legacy. Born with cerebral palsy and often underestimated because of his wheelchair, Broderick Nixon refused to let society define his future. In this deeply personal memoir, he shares the challenges of growing up with a disability, overcoming bullying, finding confidence, and learning how to turn pain into purpose.

There on that helicopter, somewhere over Switzerland on a Sunday in June, came the first tiny whisper. A voice that would carry me for years to come. ‘I’m going to be okay. There’s still joy here.’ When Emma Carey was twenty, she fell from 14,000 feet and survived. In The Girl Who Fell...

Much more than a sports memoir, in Inseparable Shaquem and Shaquill Griffin share the previously untold details of the powerful and inspiring story behind the modern NFL’s first one-handed player, and his twin brother’s unrelenting devotion, sacrifice, and love. It’s the story of...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Miya knew that she was different from everyone else. From struggling to fit in at school to dealing with an abusive home life, Miya became convinced that she was nothing but a potato who would never belong. But as Miya began to understand her neurodivergence and the God Who had created her perfectly in His image, she soon came to realize that she was created for so much more than what she envisioned in an online world of gaming and anime.

What do you do when you wake up in your mid-forties and realize you've been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic as an adult, after she had forged a career for herself, married twice and raised four children. Odd...

From the challenges of travelling when blind to becoming a parent for the first time, Kika & Me is the moving, heart-warming and inspirational story of Dr Amit Patel’s sight-loss journey and how one guide dog changed his world. 'Inspiring and compelling . . . rekindles one's faith in human...

"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...

"Seeing Eye dogs are only for the very deserving." The very deserving probably did not include people who could not stand to be anywhere near a dog. How would this cat-loving child ever grow up to experience the independence she wanted as a blind adult? Walk with Me tells the story of Sarah Blake LaRose's journey from fearful child to adulthood and the choice to give her love to the dogs who traveled by her side for over thirty years. It also tells how the cats she adored continued to be part of her life, building their own relationships with the dogs.

This book tells the extraordinary true story of Irish Olympian Kevin Babington, whose journey carried him from a small town in Ireland to the pinnacle of international show jumping and the Olympic Games in Athens. Through grit, sacrifice, and an unshakable work ethic, Kevin built a life and business in the United States while becoming one of the most respected riders in the sport. But in 2019, a catastrophic fall left him paralyzed and forced him into the greatest challenge of his life.

A powerful and much-needed collection that blends personal stories and resources to help members of liberal religious congregations foster accessible and inclusive communities for disabled people. In Beloved as We Are, community minister and mental health advocate Barbara F. Meyers and disability justice activist Shelly Rohe invite members of liberal religious congregations into the ongoing work of creating accessible and inclusive communities for disabled people and their loved ones.

A single, violent impact ended one life and forced another to begin. Forgetting to Remember is a raw, unfiltered memoir about living with a traumatic brain injury and the aftermath no one prepares you for. This is not story of recovery. There is no finish line, no return to normal. Memory fades. Pain lingers. Identity fractures. This book records what happens when the person you were no longer exists in the way you remember.

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...

The follow-up to Inside My Outside: An Independent Mind in a Dependent Body, Sara Pyszka’s first tell-allPeople say hurtful things when you are in a wheelchair. They may not mean to be unkind in the moment, but those words can still sting. Sara Pyszka should know; she’s been on the receiving end of these types of comments all her life. As a woman with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair to move and a computer to communicate, Sara has experienced people's poor or unthoughtful word choices swept aside because “they didn’t mean any harm.

In But Everyone Feels This Way, Autism acceptance activist and multi-million-follower TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. It all started out pretty normal: Paige lived in the countryside with her parents and brother Graham...