Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

My Dyslexia

By: Philip Schultz

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disabilityDespite being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “dummy class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when... Read more

I Totally Funniest

By: James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein

Narrated by: Frankie Seratch

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the third episode of James Patterson's bestselling series, Jamie Grimm is one step closer to becoming the best kid comic in the world, but now he's facing his biggest challenge yet. Jamie Grimm is back and better than ever. After scoring big on national TV in the semifinals contest, everyone back home is jumping on the Jamie Grimm bandwagon,... Read more

Step Out on Nothing

By: Byron Pitts

Narrated by: Byron Pitts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room.” Good luck, Brotha! You’ve come a long way to get here. You’ve earned it.” …If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, “I’m... Read more

Temple Grandin

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. It wasn't until years later that she was diagnosed with autism, a brain disorder that makes communication difficult. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a brilliant scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her world-changing career has revolutionized... Read more

I Funny TV

By: James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein

Narrated by: Frankie Seratch

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Jamie Grimm has hit the big time in book four of the #1 bestselling I Funny series!

Jamie Grimm has finally accomplished his dream of proving himself the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic, and the sky's the limit from there. Enter a couple of TV executives with a huge plan for Jamie: a new show about Jamie and his oddball friends! But when Jamie... Read more

The Price of Silence

By: Liza Long

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Liza Long is the mother of a child with an undiagnosed mental disorder. When she heard about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, her first thought was, "What if my son does that someday?" She wrote an emotional response to the tragedy, which the Boise State University online journal posted as "I Am Adam Lanza's... Read more

Drowned

By: Nichola Reilly

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

No one can escape the rising of the tides.Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the island of Tides. Deformed and weak, she is constantly reminded that in a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide, she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh and difficult life is the strong, capable Tiam—but love has long ago been... Read more

A Step Toward Falling

By: Cammie McGovern

Narrated by: Amanda Wallace & Ashley Clements

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

""A beautiful, big-hearted book with important lessons embedded in compelling stories of two irresistible girls. Expertly executed and movingly realized.” —New York Times Book ReviewCammie McGovern follows up her breakout young adult debut, Say What You Will, with this powerful and unforgettable novel about learning from your mistakes and... Read more

Cowboy & Wills

By: Monica Holloway

Narrated by: Monica Holloway

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Christened “charming” and “winning” by the Washington Post and “touching” by Publishers Weekly, celebrated author Monica Holloway’s deeply moving memoir shares the unforgettable story of an extraordinary little boy and the irresistible puppy who transformed his life.

The day Monica Holloway learns that her lovable, brilliant three-year-old son... Read more

Far From the Tree

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 40 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times *

* WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year *

This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only... Read more

Father's Day

By: Buzz Bissinger

Narrated by: Buzz Bissinger

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger shares the moving and uplifting tale of his cross-country journey with his adult savant son who suffered brain damage at birth.

Buzz Bissinger’s twin sons were born three minutes—and a world—apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has... Read more

Tough As They Come

By: Travis Mills & Marcus Brotherton

Narrated by: Travis Mills

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier's story. 
 
Thousands of soldiers die every year to defend their country. United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills was sure that he would become another statistic when, during his third tour of duty in... Read more

Thinking in Pictures

By: Temple Grandin

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin... Read more

The Running Dream

By: Wendelin Van Draanen

Narrated by: Laura Flanagan

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Flipped delivers a powerful and healing story that’s perfect for anyone who’s ever thought that something was impossible. Readers will revel in the story of a girl who puts herself back together—and learns to dream bigger than ever before—after she’s told she’ll never run again.

Jessica thinks her life is over when she... Read more

Be Different

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.”
 
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents... Read more

Raising Cubby

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
 
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the... Read more

The Autism Revolution

By: Dr. Martha Herbert & Karen Weintraub

Narrated by: Denice Stradling

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . .
 
After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and... Read more

Twilight

By: Henry Grunwald

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration -- a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood... Read more

In a Different Key

By: John Donvan & Caren Zucker

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Sweeping in scope but with intimate personal stories, this is a deeply moving book about the history, science, and human drama of autism.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker
 
“Remarkable . . . A riveting tale about how a seemingly rare childhood disorder... Read more

Crazy Lady

By: Jane Leslie Conly

Narrated by: Ed Begley, Jr.

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts: Maxine, an alcoholic prone to outrageous behavior, and Ronald, her retarded son. But when a social service agency tries to put Ronald into a special home, Vernon fights against the move.

1994 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children's Books... Read more

The Story of My Father

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Sue Miller

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 1988, Sue Miller found herself caring for her father as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. She was, she claims, perhaps the least constitutionally suited of all her siblings to be in the role in which she suddenly found herself, and in The Story of My Father she grapples with the haunting memories of those final... Read more

Accidents of Nature

By: Harriet McBryde Johnson

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy and gets around in a wheelchair, but she’s always believed she’s just the same as everyone else. She goes to normal school and has normal friends. She’s never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. But there Jean meets Sara, who welcomes her to “Crip Camp” and nicknames... Read more

Freak the Mighty

By: Rodman Philbrick

Narrated by: Elden Henson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Maxwell Kane, narrator of Freak the Mighty. He’s a timid soul stuck in the body of a teenage giant with size 14 shoes. Haunted by a dark secret in his past, he hides out in his basement room, avoiding the world. But when a new kid moves in next door Max’s life changes forever. The two outcasts form the ‘normal’ world team up to become... Read more

The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs. Read more