Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

The Short Bus

By: Jonathan Mooney

Narrated by: Jonathan Mooney

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney's transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful."—Los Angeles Times

This program is read by the author.

A young man once called unteachable journeys across America to investigate the lives of those,... Read more

Normal Sucks

By: Jonathan Mooney

Narrated by: Jonathan Mooney

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed.

Jonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present a new mode of... Read more

This Story Is a Lie

By: Tom Pollock

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A YA thriller described as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time meets John le Carre, about a teen math prodigy with an extreme anxiety disorder who finds himself caught in a web of lies and conspiracies after an assassination attempt on his mother. Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a math genius. He also suffers from devastating... Read more

Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

By: Tamar E. Chansky, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

If you're a parent of one of the more than one million children in this country with obsessive-compulsive disorder, you know how confusing, even frightening, the symptoms of OCD can be. You're terrified of losing your child and angry about the havoc this disorder has wreaked in your family. More than anything, you want to be able to unlock the... Read more

Jag Upphäver Gravitationen : En självbiografi om att leva med autism, asperger och ADHD (Del 1)

By: Marius Alexander Forselius

Narrated by: Frans Liljenroth

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jag Upphäver Gravitationen" är en stark utlämnande självbiografi från en ung person med en neuropsykiatrisk funktionsnedsättning. Hen föddes i Rumänien 1991, bara några få år efter att den rumänska kommunistregimen föll 1989. I nästan fyra år bodde hen på ett sunkigt barnhem i Rumänien, fram tills 1994 då hen adopterades av sina svenska... Read more

All Secure

By: Tom Satterly & Steve Jackson

Narrated by: Tom Satterly

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most highly regarded special operations soldiers in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD.
As a senior non-commissioned officer of the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country's most fearsome enemies.... Read more

A Life Beyond Reason

By: Chris Gabbard

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching and luminous memoir that explores a father’s philosophical transformation when he must reconsider the questions what makes us human? and whose life is worth living?

Before becoming a father, Chris Gabbard was a fast-track academic finishing his doctoral dissertation at Stanford. A disciple of Enlightenment thinkers, he was a... Read more

This Is Not a Love Scene

By: S. C. Megale

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"This Is Not A Love Scene rings brilliantly true from the first page to the last." — David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Funny, emotional, and refreshingly honest, S.C. Megale’s This is Not a Love Scene is for anyone who can relate to feeling different while navigating the terrifying and thrilling waters of first love.

Lights,... Read more

Starworld

By: Audrey Coulthurst & Paula Garner

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Emma Galvin

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a novel in two voices, a popular teen and an artistic loner forge an unlikely bond — and create an entire universe — via texts. But how long before the real world invades Starworld?Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home... Read more

Unleash Different

By: Rich Donovan

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If you discovered a new market comprising 53% of the world’s population, would you act to invest in it?
There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53% of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market.
Unleash Different illustrates... Read more

Misfit

By: Andreas Souvaliotis

Narrated by: Andreas Souvaliotis

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Updated and expanded: A new edition of the inspiring memoir by one of Canada's most unusual, successful and socially conscious businesspeople.

"I am different. I have always been different. I grew up scared of being found out, scared of my natural inability to fit in, to conform, to look and sound and dress and behave 'normal.' I was always drawn... Read more

Broken Places & Outer Spaces

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Nnedi Okorafor

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths.

Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi’s lifelong... Read more

How to End the Autism Epidemic

By: J.B. Handley

Narrated by: J.B. Handley

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Generation Rescue’s co-founder J.B. Handley offers a compelling, science-based explanation of what’s causing the autism epidemic, the lies that enable its perpetuation, and the steps we must take as parents and as a society in order to end it. While many parents have heard the rhetoric that vaccines are safe... Read more

Because of the Rabbit (Scholastic Gold)

By: Cynthia Lord

Narrated by: Kate Reinders

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Honor-winning author Cynthia Lord has written a sensitive and accessible book about the challenges of fitting in when you know you're a little different.On the last night of summer, Emma tags along with her game warden father on a routine call. They're supposed to rescue a wild rabbit from a picket fence, but instead they find a little... Read more

Pocket Rocks

By: Sheree Fitch

Narrated by: Heather Gould

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

No matter how hard he tries, even with the help of his classroom aide, Ian Goobie can't do the things that the other children in his class can do. Every day he dreads going to school. Then he finds a rock, a rock that fits perfectly in his pocket, a rock that touches all his senses and whisks him away into a whole other world. From then on, as... Read more

What Makes Us Unique?

By: Jillian Roberts

Narrated by: Jillian Roberts

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Our conversations with children about cultural, religious and physical differences are more important than ever, and they need to start at an early age, but we know it can be difficult to know where to begin. What Makes Us Unique? provides an accessible introduction to the concept of diversity, teaching children how to respect and celebrate... Read more

The Seven Longest Yards

By: Chris Norton & Emily Norton

Narrated by: Jakob Lewis, Madison Lawrence & John Behrens

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

He was told he'd never walk again. She was losing hope that she'd ever feel whole again. This is their miraculous true story of defying the impossible."In my very first impression of Chris, I was blown away by his determination to stay positive, do the work, and trust that God had a bigger story in mind . . . this book is a master class in the... Read more

Instant Voice Training

By: The INSTANT-Series

Narrated by: The INSTANT-Series

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

(NOTE: Be sure to download the accompanying reference guide upon purchasing. You'll need it to go through the audio. If you can't access it, just contact us directly at audio@instantseries.com.)
How to Train Your Voice Instantly!
In a world...where your "voice" totally matters - what do you do if you don't have the sexiest voice, the most... Read more

Haben

By: Haben Girma

Narrated by: Haben Girma

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

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.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an... Read more

We Rule the Night

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight -- for their country and for themselves -- in this riveting debut that's part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity.

Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she's caught using illegal magic, she fears being branded a traitor and... Read more

But My Brain Had Other Ideas

By: Deb Brandon

Narrated by: Helen Lloyd

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

When Deb Brandon discovered that cavernous angiomas—tangles of malformed blood vessels in her brain—were behind the terrifying symptoms she'd been experiencing, she underwent one brain surgery. And then another. And then another. And that was just the beginning.But My Brain Had Other Ideas follows Brandon's story all the way through to long-term... Read more

Boy Alone

By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Extraordinary… Greenfeld details what it is like to grow up next to a ‘beautiful’ boy with whom he can never play and never connect and who never returns his love, but who, nonetheless, is the most important fact of his life.”
— Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of Raising Cain “Beautiful and powerful …. A masterpiece of literature and memory.”... Read more

Why Will No One Play with Me?

By: Caroline Maguire

Narrated by: Caroline Maguire

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

MOM'S CHOICE AWARD WINNER
From renowned parent expert Caroline Maguire, Why Will No One Play with Me? is a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood.
Every parent wants their child to be okay--to have friends, to be successful, to feel... Read more

The Space We're In

By: Katya Balen

Narrated by: Robert Madge

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten-year-old Frank has trouble navigating his relationship with his younger brother Max who is autistic.

Frank loves soccer, codes, riding his bike, and playing with his friends. His brother Max is five. Max only eats foods that are beige or white, hates baths, and if he has to wear a t-shirt that isn't gray with yellow stripes he melts down down... Read more