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The Boy Who Lived
- When Magic and Reality Collide: my story
- By: David Holmes
- Narrated by: David Holmes, Toby Laurence
- Length: 10 hrs
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As Harry Potter's stunt double, David Holmes's amazing gymnastic skills saw him earn onscreen immortality. He was the first-ever person to play Quidditch on a broomstick; he dodged dragon's fire and dove deep into the Great Lake, without any gillyweed to protect him.
By: David Holmes
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I Fight, You Fight
- Life Isn't About the Hand You're Dealt, but How You Choose to Play It
- By: Alex Noble
- Narrated by: Alex Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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I Fight, You Fight is the inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn’t about the hand you’re dealt, but how you choose to play it.
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Strength & Determination
- By Larissa Vella on 09-09-2024
By: Alex Noble
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Autism in Heels
- The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
- By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole
- Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense....
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An enlightening listen.
- By ChanBella on 08-10-2023
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The Little Big Things
- A young man's belief that every day can be a good day
- By: Henry Fraser
- Narrated by: Henry Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist....
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An inspirational story
- By Anonymous User on 23-06-2023
By: Henry Fraser
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Normal Sucks
- How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
- By: Jonathan Mooney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Mooney
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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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....
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A must read for everyone
- By Julius on 22-10-2022
By: Jonathan Mooney
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Thinking in Pictures
- My Life with Autism
- By: Temple Grandin
- Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism....
By: Temple Grandin
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The Boy Who Lived
- When Magic and Reality Collide: my story
- By: David Holmes
- Narrated by: David Holmes, Toby Laurence
- Length: 10 hrs
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As Harry Potter's stunt double, David Holmes's amazing gymnastic skills saw him earn onscreen immortality. He was the first-ever person to play Quidditch on a broomstick; he dodged dragon's fire and dove deep into the Great Lake, without any gillyweed to protect him.
By: David Holmes
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I Fight, You Fight
- Life Isn't About the Hand You're Dealt, but How You Choose to Play It
- By: Alex Noble
- Narrated by: Alex Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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I Fight, You Fight is the inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn’t about the hand you’re dealt, but how you choose to play it.
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Strength & Determination
- By Larissa Vella on 09-09-2024
By: Alex Noble
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Autism in Heels
- The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
- By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole
- Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of 35, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense....
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An enlightening listen.
- By ChanBella on 08-10-2023
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The Little Big Things
- A young man's belief that every day can be a good day
- By: Henry Fraser
- Narrated by: Henry Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist....
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An inspirational story
- By Anonymous User on 23-06-2023
By: Henry Fraser
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Normal Sucks
- How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
- By: Jonathan Mooney
- Narrated by: Jonathan Mooney
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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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....
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A must read for everyone
- By Julius on 22-10-2022
By: Jonathan Mooney
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Thinking in Pictures
- My Life with Autism
- By: Temple Grandin
- Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism....
By: Temple Grandin
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture....
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Read it. Learn from it. Grow from it!!
- By T N on 08-01-2021
By: Alice Wong
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PDA in the Family
- Life After the Lightbulb Moment
- By: Steph Curtis
- Narrated by: Chris Curtis, Steph Curtis
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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In this honest and open account of life with her PDA daughter, Sasha, Steph Curtis reveals the everyday struggles and explores the milestones of raising a child diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance....
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Insightful, authentic and hopeful telling of PDA family life.
- By Anonymous User on 10-01-2025
By: Steph Curtis
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The PDA Paradox
- The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum
- By: Harry Thompson, Felicity Evans - foreword
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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Diagnosed with pathological demand avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with drugs and alcohol....
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A raw and beautiful insightful book
- By KI Jo on 19-05-2021
By: Harry Thompson, and others
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Able to Laugh
- Finding Joy Though the Struggle Is Real (From TikTok’s Much-Loved Interabled Couple!)
- By: Jade Reynolds, John Reynolds
- Narrated by: John Reynolds, Jade Reynolds
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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When Jade unexpectedly suffered from a rare condition which left her paralysed and in a wheelchair at the age of twelve, she never imagined that she'd one day meet her husband John and that together they would take to social media to dispel the stigma surrounding disability, one story at a time.
By: Jade Reynolds, and others
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KLIM
- By: Michael Klim
- Narrated by: Luke Ryan, Michael Klim
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Klim's journey to greatness began behind the Iron Curtain, in communist-era Poland. His family made a bid for freedom in the 1980s and immigrated to Australia, where swimming became his passport into a new culture and eventually led him to become one of his adopted country's great sporting heroes.
By: Michael Klim
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Late Bloomer
- How an autism diagnosis changed my life
- By: Clem Bastow
- Narrated by: Clem Bastow
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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With wit and warmth, Clem reflects as an autistic adult on her formative experiences as an undiagnosed young person, from the asphalt playground of St Joseph's Primary School in Melbourne to working as an entertainment journalist in Hollywood....
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Autism in Doc Martins
- By Bree on 24-09-2022
By: Clem Bastow
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Love & Autism
- By: Kay Kerr
- Narrated by: Kay Kerr
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Through the intimate writing of critically acclaimed autistic author Kay Kerr, Love & Autism presents an uplifting celebration of neurodivergent love, the search for it and a deeper look into the lives of autistic Australians....
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Truly Amazing! Everyone should read!
- By Angela on 23-08-2023
By: Kay Kerr
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This Autistic Girl Went to Japan
- And You Won't Believe What Happened Next
- By: Bianca Toeps
- Narrated by: Jessica Harris
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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This Autistic Girl Went to Japan is the inspiring story of a young woman who moved halfway around the world in pursuit of happiness.
By: Bianca Toeps
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Growing Up Disabled in Australia
- By: Carly Findlay
- Narrated by: Carly Findlay
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me....
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wonderful book
- By Anonymous User on 08-02-2021
By: Carly Findlay
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Stronger
- By: Dinesh Palipana
- Narrated by: Dinesh Palipana
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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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....
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What an incredible human
- By Nicole on 09-12-2024
By: Dinesh Palipana
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Ido in Autismland
- Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison
- By: Ido Kedar
- Narrated by: Eli Bildner
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Ido in Autismland opens a window into non-verbal autism through dozens of short, autobiographical essays each offering new insights into autism symptoms, effective and ineffective treatments, and the inner emotional life of a severely autistic boy....
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First contact
- By kieran martin on 02-11-2023
By: Ido Kedar
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Joni
- An Unforgettable Story
- By: Joni Eareckson Tada, Joe Musser, Bob Goff
- Narrated by: Joni Eareckson Tada
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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The Christian classic detailing the remarkable events surrounding the 1967 diving accident that left Joni Eareckson Tada paralyzed. This special 45th anniversary edition of Joni commemorates the worldwide impact of her life story to people living with disabilities....
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Inspiring
- By Hanaa w. on 15-08-2024
By: Joni Eareckson Tada, and others
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Disability Intimacy
- Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility comes another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms....
By: Alice Wong
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Strange Little Girl
- By: Jessica Knight
- Narrated by: Rebekah Hill
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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This is the story of how one young woman learned to move on from the life she was expected to have, embraced what she was scared of, and looked to her future with an open heart and mind.
By: Jessica Knight
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Best Day Ever!
- A Little Book (by a Little Guy) with Some Big Ideas on How to Be Happy
- By: Richard Paul Evans, Nathan Glad
- Narrated by: Nathan Glad (with David Osmond)
- Length: 42 mins
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Nathan Glad was not expected to survive birth. Born with OI (Osteogenesis Imperfecta), also known as Brittle Bone, he has faced remarkable life challenges. Despite it all, Nathan remains determinately happy. This book contains his 7 Hacks for Happiness.
By: Richard Paul Evans, and others
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Breath
- A Triumphant Story of Hope and Survival
- By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe
- Narrated by: Elisa Armstrong
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of 21 and faced a rare cancer at the age of 30. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills.
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Hope Heals
- A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love
- By: Katherine Wolf, Jay Wolf, Joni Eareckson Tada - foreword
- Narrated by: Katherine Wolf, Jay Wolf
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Katherine and Jay Wolf were a young couple living the dream in Southern California, but all was nearly lost when Katherine suffered a shocking near-fatal brainstem stroke and struggled to find hope in a life that looked nothing like the one they had before....
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A wonderful & personal story of God’s light in dark places.
- By Anonymous User on 02-10-2024
By: Katherine Wolf, and others
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Finding a Way
- By: Graeme Innes
- Narrated by: Graeme Innes
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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After a long and successful career as a lawyer, company director and Human Rights Commissioner, Graeme Innes has written his story....
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Entertaining and educative
- By Kylie on 13-12-2022
By: Graeme Innes
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Kika & Me
- How One Extraordinary Guide Dog Changed My World
- By: Dr Amit Patel
- Narrated by: Chetan Pathak
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Amit Patel is working as a trauma doctor when a rare condition causes him to lose his sight within 36 hours....
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A Heartfelt Journey of Resilience & Companionship
- By Jetgirl on 30-11-2024
By: Dr Amit Patel
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Broke
- By: Sam Drummond
- Narrated by: Tim Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lawyer and disability advocate Sam Drummond weaves a poignant, stirring and deeply compassionate tale of life on the fringes....
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Lovely heartfelt story
- By Jacquei Quach on 11-09-2023
By: Sam Drummond
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Your Route to Recovery
- Solutions to Lift the Fog and Light the Way
- By: Lauren Windas
- Narrated by: Lauren Windas
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lauren recounts the highs and lows of her own health journey and experiences, whilst providing an evidence base, and contextualising what we know so far about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME....
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Great Information
- By Anonymous User on 22-05-2024
By: Lauren Windas
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Smelling the Taste of Sound
- A Professional Woman’s Story of a Late Autism Diagnosis
- By: The Autistic Lawyer
- Narrated by: Lucy C Nolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive headfirst into the urban symphony of "Smelling the Taste of Sound", a riveting memoir of a newly diagnosed, neurodivergent trainee lawyer.
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Don’t Snooze Your Dreams
- Lessons from Life with Narcolepsy
- By: Michelle Weger
- Narrated by: Valerie Gilbert
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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You have big dreams… Yet it seems there’s always something standing in your way, and reaching them feels impossible. It’s overwhelming, and it’s far less scary to hit the snooze button, roll back over, and carry on living life as you know it…
By: Michelle Weger
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The Story of My Life
- By: Helen Keller
- Narrated by: Amy J. Johnson
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This inspiring autobiography by Helen Keller is an account of her life from her family history up to her last years of college, supplemented by her personal letters from age 7 to 21....
By: Helen Keller
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Single Moms Need Flowers
- By: Markita Rogers
- Narrated by: Shaniah Saldhin
- Length: 57 mins
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A unique self-help memoir subliminally written from the perspective of a first time mom with undiagnosed Adhd, raised in Saint Louis, Missouri. She studied her experiences and those around her to recognize and identify, unhealthy patterns in society. Motherhood illuminated the struggles and weight that women have been thanklessly carrying for centuries. Producing emotionally unstable and traumatized children that become adults and spread their pain and grief among society.
By: Markita Rogers
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The Forest of My Youth
- By: Michael Kiel
- Narrated by: Austin Kase
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Sometimes the best way to understand what’s deep inside requires looking outward. Sometimes the best way to understand the world outside requires a deep dive within. And sometimes, those two things are so intertwined it’s difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends. The Forest of My Youth is a collection of poems and perspectives that probe some of the deepest, most profound and sometimes achingly painful thoughts and questions I’ve had since my spinal cord injury in 1993.
By: Michael Kiel
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SpoonieNinja
- Finding Strength in the Shadows: A Journey of Strength, Survival, and Resilience in the Face of Chronic Illness
- By: Tesla Coyle
- Narrated by: Naomi Rohatyn
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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"SpoonieNinja: Finding Strength in the Shadows" is an inspiring and intimate exploration of resilience and self-discovery in the face of chronic illness. Through raw and reflective storytelling, the book delves into the hidden battles, strength, and courage that come from living with a condition that often goes unseen. Tesla Coyle invites listeners to find empowerment in vulnerability and to embrace their own inner strength, even in the darkest of times. This book is a beacon for anyone seeking understanding, hope, and solidarity in their own journey through life's challenges.
By: Tesla Coyle
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I'm Sorry... That's Awesome!
- Inventing a Solution for Memory Loss
- By: Thomas Dixon
- Narrated by: Matthew Michael Lewis
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This memoir combines the drastic losses which occur due to severe episodic memory deficits with the greater agency currently afforded to all of us as made capable via ingenuity and technology. In this book memory loss is considered within the present-day environment of novel solutions heretofore unimaginable. All of us may never need to worry about recalling key life events ever again.
By: Thomas Dixon
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Don’t Snooze Your Dreams
- Lessons from Life with Narcolepsy
- By: Michelle Weger
- Narrated by: Valerie Gilbert
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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You have big dreams… Yet it seems there’s always something standing in your way, and reaching them feels impossible. It’s overwhelming, and it’s far less scary to hit the snooze button, roll back over, and carry on living life as you know it… But your fear is what’s really holding you back… and you can overcome it. Every setback you face is an opportunity in disguise, and you can push past every limit that stands in the way of your dreams.
By: Michelle Weger
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The Two Hemispheres of Lucca
- By: Bárbara Anderson
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio, Anthony Rey Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Barbara Anderson narrates with brutal honesty the day-to-day experience of having a child with disabilities: the challenges inside and outside the home, health and life complications, the shifting priorities, the daily Mt. Everest-sized struggle of having a child with an—until now—irreversible diagnosis such as infantile cerebral palsy.
By: Bárbara Anderson
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Single Moms Need Flowers
- By: Markita Rogers
- Narrated by: Shaniah Saldhin
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A unique self-help memoir subliminally written from the perspective of a first time mom with undiagnosed Adhd, raised in Saint Louis, Missouri. She studied her experiences and those around her to recognize and identify, unhealthy patterns in society. Motherhood illuminated the struggles and weight that women have been thanklessly carrying for centuries. Producing emotionally unstable and traumatized children that become adults and spread their pain and grief among society.
By: Markita Rogers
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The Forest of My Youth
- By: Michael Kiel
- Narrated by: Austin Kase
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Sometimes the best way to understand what’s deep inside requires looking outward. Sometimes the best way to understand the world outside requires a deep dive within. And sometimes, those two things are so intertwined it’s difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends. The Forest of My Youth is a collection of poems and perspectives that probe some of the deepest, most profound and sometimes achingly painful thoughts and questions I’ve had since my spinal cord injury in 1993.
By: Michael Kiel
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SpoonieNinja
- Finding Strength in the Shadows: A Journey of Strength, Survival, and Resilience in the Face of Chronic Illness
- By: Tesla Coyle
- Narrated by: Naomi Rohatyn
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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"SpoonieNinja: Finding Strength in the Shadows" is an inspiring and intimate exploration of resilience and self-discovery in the face of chronic illness. Through raw and reflective storytelling, the book delves into the hidden battles, strength, and courage that come from living with a condition that often goes unseen. Tesla Coyle invites listeners to find empowerment in vulnerability and to embrace their own inner strength, even in the darkest of times. This book is a beacon for anyone seeking understanding, hope, and solidarity in their own journey through life's challenges.
By: Tesla Coyle
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I'm Sorry... That's Awesome!
- Inventing a Solution for Memory Loss
- By: Thomas Dixon
- Narrated by: Matthew Michael Lewis
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This memoir combines the drastic losses which occur due to severe episodic memory deficits with the greater agency currently afforded to all of us as made capable via ingenuity and technology. In this book memory loss is considered within the present-day environment of novel solutions heretofore unimaginable. All of us may never need to worry about recalling key life events ever again.
By: Thomas Dixon
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Don’t Snooze Your Dreams
- Lessons from Life with Narcolepsy
- By: Michelle Weger
- Narrated by: Valerie Gilbert
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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You have big dreams… Yet it seems there’s always something standing in your way, and reaching them feels impossible. It’s overwhelming, and it’s far less scary to hit the snooze button, roll back over, and carry on living life as you know it… But your fear is what’s really holding you back… and you can overcome it. Every setback you face is an opportunity in disguise, and you can push past every limit that stands in the way of your dreams.
By: Michelle Weger
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The Two Hemispheres of Lucca
- By: Bárbara Anderson
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio, Anthony Rey Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Barbara Anderson narrates with brutal honesty the day-to-day experience of having a child with disabilities: the challenges inside and outside the home, health and life complications, the shifting priorities, the daily Mt. Everest-sized struggle of having a child with an—until now—irreversible diagnosis such as infantile cerebral palsy.
By: Bárbara Anderson