Disabled Authors

Gold Medal Mysteries: Peril on the Pitch

By: Ellie Robinson

Narrated by: Nadia Albina

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the sporting detectives as they race around the world in the brilliant mystery adventure series from multi gold medal-winning Paralympian, Ellie Robinson. 
 
It’s been a year since Seb, Hannah and Maria solved the mystery of the gold medal thief at the Tokyo Games. Now they are reunited at the World Football Championship but Brazil’s star... Read more

Disability Intimacy

By: Alice Wong

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.

What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more

White Supremacy Is All Around

By: Akilah Cadet

Narrated by: Akilah Cadet

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Founder and CEO of consulting firm Change Cadet Dr. Akilah Cadet shares a powerful, incisive look at where we are in the fight to dismantle white supremacy—and what we urgently need to do next​.

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me... Read more

Beautiful People

By: Melissa Blake

Narrated by: Melissa Blake

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.

In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A conservative pundit caught wind of it, mentioning Blake’s work in a YouTube video. What happened... Read more

Limp Forward

By: Libo Meyers

Narrated by: Libo Meyers

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"A vibrant story of a brilliant and industrious woman." — Kirkus Reviews
"An inspirational book that drives home the importance of perseverance, love, and the beauty that can come from being differently abled." — Readers' Favorite (5 star)
"A tale of perseverance, an inspiration for all. Look back to understand your roots, & look forward to... Read more

The Boy Who Found His Voice

By: Tyler Gordon

Narrated by: Tyler Gordon

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of painting and classmates' cheers.

From teen activist and artistic prodigy Tyler Gordon comes a heartwarming audiobook inspired by his own life about a boy with a speech difference who learns the power... Read more

But Everyone Feels This Way

By: Paige Layle

Narrated by: Paige Layle

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. 

“For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. But knew it couldn’t be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me. This wasn’t okay. This wasn’t normal. This wasn’t functioning. And it... Read more

Moth to a Flame

By: Finn Longman

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic conclusion to the dark, twisting thriller trilogy about a teen assassin’s attempt to live a normal life.

An Audible 'most anticipated story this spring'. 
 
‘An immersive, fast-paced thriller’ The Irish Times

Isabel Ryans has fled Espera, leaving behind her identity as teen assassin the Moth. Now she’s trying to adjust to the reality of... Read more

Against Technoableism

By: Ashley Shew

Narrated by: Maria Pendolino

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume... Read more

The Girl with Special Shoes

By: Hilda Bih Muluh

Narrated by: Hilda Bih Muluh

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilda’s family didn’t know she had muscular dystrophy. They just knew their preschooler was losing her ability to walk. But they were determined to find a cure.

Being disabled in Cameroon meant not only obstacles to transport, but visits to diviners and evangelists, threats of sexual assault, discrimination, and a crisis of faith. Despite the... Read more

Vision

By: David S. Tatel

Narrated by: John Lescault & David S. Tatel

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity.

David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many... Read more

How to Dance

By: Jason B. Dutton

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick Freeman works hard as the star of the weekly karaoke night at his bar, hoping his singing talent, quick wit, and winning smile will distract from his cerebral palsy. But one night at the bar, watching a professional dancer light up the dance floor with her boyfriend, he realizes that entertaining strangers will never give him a fraction of... Read more

Interabled

By: Shane Burcaw & Hannah Burcaw

Narrated by: GM Hakim, Hannah Burcaw, Mieko Gavia, Shane Bur...

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the authors and a full cast.

YouTube sensations Shane and Hannah Burcaw are back with a groundbreaking, uproarious collection of essays and short stories about what it means to be in an interabled relationship.

With their signature wit and hilarious voice, authors, bloggers, and entrepreneurs Shane and Hannah Burcaw share... Read more

Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride

By: Lauren Spencer

Narrated by: Sanya Simmons

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren "Lolo" Spencer provides a candid look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate embarks on the importance of visibility for the disabled community because representation matters!



Words from someone doing the work. Lolo Spencer gained popularity as a YouTube personality. On her platform, Sitting Pretty, she... Read more

Black Disability Politics

By: Sami Schalk

Narrated by: Imani Barbarin

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the... Read more

Alice, An Autistic Aardvark

By: Jo North

Narrated by: Jill Cofsky

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Alice, a kind-hearted and caring aardvark, who worries being autistic makes her different. As we learn more about her condition, her friends help her realise she has nothing to worry about, and that she is brilliant, just the way she is. Read more

Tariq, a Tortoise with Tourette’s

By: Jo North

Narrated by: Jill Cofsky

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Tariq, a kind and talented tortoise who worries his Tourette’s makes him different. As we learn more about his condition, his friends help him realise he has nothing to worry about, and that he is brilliant, just the way he is. Read more

The Cane Kids

By: Kristen Lang

Narrated by: Tristan Snyder & April Watts

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Everett and Willow, two remarkable kids just like you, in their debut adventure as The Cane Kids. Discover the extraordinary world through their unique perspective as they navigate life with a special tool-embracing independence and pride.   This heartwarming children's book inspires readers of any age to believe that with determination, no... Read more

Stronger

By: Dinesh Palipana

Narrated by: Dinesh Palipana

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical school, Dinesh was involved in a catastrophic car accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. After his accident, his strength and determination saw him return to complete medical school - now with quadriplegia. Dinesh was the first... Read more

The Adventures of Incredi-Wheels & Triple S: The Mysterious Missing Book

By: Rebecca Rubin Seligson

Narrated by: Brian Dewar McNamara

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As superhero good-deed-doers, Zee & Nina transform into Incredi-Wheels & Super Sidekick Sister (or “Triple S” for short) whenever a good deed needs doing. One day, while playing at the park, Zee & Nina hear their friend Zoey call for help. They spring into action, encouraging Zoey to become her own superhero as they work together to... Read more

Being Elisabeth Elliot

By: Ellen Vaughn & Joni Eareckson Tada

Narrated by: Connie Shabshab

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous people group killed her husband Jim and his four colleagues. And yet, she stayed in the jungle with her young daughter to minister to the very people who had thrown the spears, demonstrating the power of Christ’s forgiveness. This courageous,... Read more

Bea, a Badger with Type 1 Diabetes

By: Jo North

Narrated by: Jill Cofsky

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Bea, a kind and lovely badger who worries her diabetes makes her different. As we learn more about her condition, her friends help her realize she has nothing to worry about, and that she is brilliant, just the way she is. Read more

Stressed to the Max

By: Joni Eareckson Tada

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Does it seem like your to-do list always gets longer instead of shorter? Do you try to slow down but find yourself scrambling just to keep up? Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but it often seems you have more than your fair share. You can t continue at this pace forever, but there doesn t seem to be a way out. With characteristic... Read more

Flying Colors

By: Tim Lefens

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Tim Lefens walked into the Matheny School in New Jersey to show slides of his paintings, his one-hour visit became a life-changing experience. The students he met had severe physical challenges: only one of them could talk, none could walk, and all lacked the use of their hands. As a painter facing his own gradual loss of eyesight, Tim had... Read more