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21) Of human bondage
Author
Language
English
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Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time. "It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham," wrote Gore Vidal. "He was always so entirely there." Originally published in 1915, Of Human Bondage is a potent expression of the power of sexual obsession and of modern man's yearning for freedom. This classic bildungsroman tells the story of Philip...
22) Handicapped
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of forced sterilization and "euthanasia" of the physically and mentally handicapped in Nazi Germany. Features a PDF version of the original paper brochure of same title, numerous photographs, and individual case histories.
23) Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
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 an young paraplegic.
24) Murderball
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"All Our Families: Finding Our Disability Lineages argues that disability is stigmatized because it is delineated-excised from our understanding of family, cut out from the story a family tells about itself, and proposes how finding and integrating disability in our family would transform our lived experiences of both family and disability"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie's off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. But when one of his best buddies runs into trouble at school and a sudden family health scare rears its head, Jamie has to put his comedic ambitions on hold and stand by the people he cares about.
28) Of human bondage
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress. The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseille traces the adventures of a rowdy troupe of dockworkers, prostitutes, and political organizers--collectively straight and queer, disabled and able-bodied, African, European, Caribbean, and American. Set largely in the culture-blending Vieux Port of Marseille at the height of the Jazz Age, the novel takes flight along with Lafala, an acutely disabled but abruptly wealthy...
30) Mannheim rex
Author
Publisher
Thomas and Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of his wife, famous horror writer Gavin Corlie retreats from New York City to a secluded house on Lake Caldasac. But his new life in the country is far from idyllic; when a thirteen-year-old wheelchair-bound boy named Finn Horn nearly drowns in the lake, Gavin discovers a startling secret: people in this peaceful lakeside community keep vanishing. Is the corrupt, Benzedrine-fueled town sheriff to blame? Or is Finn's account...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu's rousing memoir about being both profoundly disabled and profoundly successful without trading one for the other. Eddie Ndopu grew up loving pop music and reruns of The Bold and the Beautiful, and as an adult he would become a globe-trotting disability activist. By his early twenties, he had rocketed through every boundary put in front of him-a queer, Black wheelchair user-challenging bias at the highest echelons...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The U.S. became the first country to enact a series of national accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a...
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
An anthology of stories in various genres, featuring disabled characters and written by disabled creators, ranging from established best-selling authors to debut authors.
34) The golden egg
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
36) Freak the Mighty
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team.
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled―and what if that’s not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it’s possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation Building on the work of her game changing book Care Work: Dreaming...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Harry, a new student at Bear Country School who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, has trouble making friends until the others discover that he is really very much like them.
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