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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
An intimate portrait of five disabled people living in the Pacific Northwest. They discuss microaggressions and implicit bias against people with disabiltiies, developing disability pride and identity, and how bias affects them every day. The film suggests how teachers, coworkers, health care workers, and families can become better allies to members of the largest minority group in the US.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Sins Invalid witnesses a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored themes of sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body, impacting thousands through live performance. Sins Invalid is as an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.
4) Rules
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Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
5) Roll with it
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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Series
[Cursebreakers volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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Eighteen for the three hundred twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day until feisty Harper enters his life.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
About 12 percent of the people your library could serve or hire have some type of disability in vision, learning, mobility, etc. People First demonstrates ways to break down both physical and attitudinal barriers without a large investment of time and money. Emphasis is on sensitivity, service and providing employment opportunities. Includes a discussion guide. --"Four stars, Editors Choice ... a superb production that focuses not only on the physical...
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The twenty-fifth mystery in the New York Times–bestselling series “is cause for celebration. . . . Leon brilliantly exposes the corrupt world of Venice” (Bay Area Reporter).
At a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness asks Brunetti if he will investigate the fifteen-year-old attempted drowning of her granddaughter, which left the girl...
At a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patroness asks Brunetti if he will investigate the fifteen-year-old attempted drowning of her granddaughter, which left the girl...
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"A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, alifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our...
11) The golden egg
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At the request of his wife, Commissario Brunetti looks into the death of deaf, mentally disabled man who worked at their dry-cleaners and uncovers a mystery when the man left no official records and his mother is reluctant to speak to him.
12) Happy again
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"An easy-to-read story about Lucas the lion who learns how to live life with a physical disability with help from his friends and family"--
13) Days with Dad
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Description
A young girl and her wheelchair-bound father share many special moments because she treasures all they can do together, although he apologizes for not being able to do more.
14) Nobody's perfect
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Tracing one man's attempt to organize a nude photo shoot of 12 prenatal victims of the toxic drug Thalidomide (including himself), NoBodys's perfect is alternately hilarious, insightful and sad, and entirely allergic to sentimentality or easy platitudes.
15) Tangerine
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Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Set in 1917 in a small Australian outback town and against the backdrop of a nation at war, Let the Balloon Go is a poignant story of a boy and his family. Young John Sumner has contracted polio and wears a leg brace. He also suffers mild epilepsy. While his brothers fight in the war overseas, John fights a much more personal battle – the battle for his own freedom. His over-anxious mother is afraid to let him play games and climb trees like other...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing buttons, Chester hits Lewis with the big ask. Lewis can't...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"This series explores disability in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This book explores the do's and don'ts of disability etiquette and how to talk about disability. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to LOOK, THINK, MAKEA GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Books are authored by writers with disabilities and the series has been developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way to full equity, inclusion,...
20) Me before you
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Rental.
Formats
Description
Louisa 'Lou' Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local 'castle' she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for....
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