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[2018] | Skyhorse Publishing | xx, 248 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B OTOOLE J |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media | English | Checked Out
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"The face of autism is changing, and more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick. Autism in Heels, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer Cook 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, Jennifer exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence,...
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[2020] | Beacon Press | xiv, 218 pages ; 23 cm | English |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out
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2020 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and...
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©2016. | New York University Press | xi, 213 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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2015. | First Hachette books trade edition. | Hachette Books | 355 pages ; 20 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B SAKS E |
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A memoir of paranoid schizophrenia by an accomplished professor recounts her first symptoms at the age of eight, her efforts to hide the severity of her condition, and the obstacles she has overcome in the course of her treatment and marriage.
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[2019] | Graywolf Press | 202 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
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2019 | OverDrive | Graywolf Press | English | Available Online
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"Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations...
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©2020. | Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | xxii, 309 pages ; 21 cm. | English |
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2020 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
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1997. | Knopf | 131 pages ; 20 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B BAUBY J Shirlington - Adult Biography 1 available B BAUBY J |
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2018. | First William Morrow paperback edition. | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B CALLAHA J |
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[2018] | Fantagraphics Books, Inc | 175 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Graphic Novel 1 available GRAPH B WEBBER G |
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"Dumb's protagonist Georgia lives the relatively carefree and ordinary life of a twentysomething in Montreal: working at a café, volunteering at a local bike co-op, and going out on the town with friends. But when a sudden unanticipated throat injury forces her into months of silence, her life is thrown into disarray. Unable to work her customer service job, she must find new income. Conversing with friends becomes complicated and exhausting. And...
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2019. | First edition. | Twelve | vi, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 2 available B GIRMA H |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Checked Out
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"The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage." -- From Amazon.com summary.
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2021. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | 182 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available
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"A remarkable and unforgettable memoir from the first man with autism to attend Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, revealing what life is really like inside a world constructed for neurotypical minds while celebrating the many gifts of being different"--
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[2021] | William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 264 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 616.85882 GILPE |
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2021 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"I have been buried under years of dust and now I have so much to say." These were the first words twenty-five-year-old Emily Grodin ever wrote. Born with nonverbal autism, Emily's only means of communicating for a quarter of a century had been only one-word responses or physical gestures. That Emily was intelligent had never been in question-from an early age she'd shown clear signs that she understood what was going on though she could not express...
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c2016. | First Edition. | Henry Holt and Company | x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B ANNER Z |
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"Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don't Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and under-prepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future. So how did this hairless mole-rat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation who's hosted two travel shows, impressed Oprah, driven the Mars Rover, and inspired a John Mayer song?...
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[2012] | Gotham Books | 248 pages : chiefly ; 23 cm | English |
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Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Ellen Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic but terrified that medications would cause her to lose her creativity and livelihood, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability without losing herself or her passion. Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the "crazy artist," Ellen found inspiration from the lives and work of other artist and writers who suffered from...
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[2009] | Beacon Press | xvii, 230 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B GALLOWA T |
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2009 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out
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In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life...
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[2020] | First edition. | Persea Books | 215 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 616.836 BROWN |
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"In sixteen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body-in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder. In spite of-indeed, in response to-physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue set throughout the United States and Europe, ranging from the rural American South of her childhood to the cobblestoned...
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2019. | First Atria paperback edition. | Atria Paperback | 242 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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"From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn't always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady stream of self-hate society strengthened inside her. But after...
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2007. | H. Holt | 272 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Biography 1 available B MOONEY J |
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2019. | First edition. | New Village Press | x, 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B LASPINA N |
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"Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina's story--from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, 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 that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and her activism in the disability...
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2005. | Henry Holt and Co | 261 pages ; 22 cm | English |
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