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Disability Pride

Fiction and nonfiction about the experiences of people with disabilities.

Glenview Public Library

26 items

  • Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child

    Your Guide to the Essential Systems, Services, and Supports

    Coleman, Kelley,
    Covered in this invaluable guide: handling diagnoses; working with medical experts; dealing with insurance and government benefits; enrolling one's child in a special education program; and developing care plans for the future.
    Book, 2024New York : Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books, 2024. — 649.151 COL
  • Disability Intimacy

    Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

    Essays and poetry depict how disabled people pursue meaningful relationships.
    Book, 2024New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, [2024] — 306.7087 DIS
  • The Anti-ableist Manifesto

    Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-inclusive World

    Yu, Tiffany,
    Activist Yu created an insightful guide to help others be better allies to disabled people.
    Book, 2024New York : Hachette Go, 2024. — 305.908 YU
  • Unfit Parent

    a Disabled Mother Challenges An Inaccessible World

    Slice, Jessica,
    An eye-opening guidebook about the difficulties of parenting when disabled.
    Book, 2025Boston : Beacon Press, [2025] — 306.874 SLI
  • Interabled

    True Stories About Love and Disability From Squirmy & Grubs and Other Interabled Couples

    Burcaw, Shane,
    22 interviews with married collaborators and disability advocates Shane and Hannah Burcaw.
    Book, 2025New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2025. — TEEN 362.4 BUR
  • I Felt the Cheers

    the Remarkable Silent Life of Curtis Pride

    Pride, Curtis,
    The autobiography of a Major League Baseball player who was born profoundly deaf.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Dafina, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2025. — 796.357 PRIDE
  • The biography of an activist and scientist who was blinded at age 4 in a shocking crime.
    Book, 2025New York : Grand Central, 2025. — BIOGRAPHY MILELE, J. MIE
  • Debut novel from Queer as Folk actor O'Connell about a gay man with cerebral palsy.
    Book, 2022New York : Atria Books, 2022. — FICTION O'CONNELL, R.
  • A developmentally delayed 30 year old man is charged with murder.
    Book, 2025Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2025] — FICTION KENNEDY, H.
  • Inspired by the the TV series Six Million Dollar Man, a medical officer on the moon is severely injured and requires extensive and mostly experimental prosthetics.
    Book, 2023Riverdale, NY : Baen Publishing Enterprises, [2023] — SF FANTASY HAMPSON, R.
  • Threading the Needle

    New Frontiers, Ancient Demons

    Foster, Monalisa,
    On the colony world of Goruden, a former military sniper with a cybernetic arm hopes to start anew with a job as a marksmanship instructor but finds herself thrust into conflict.
    Book, 2023Riverdale : Bean Publishing Enterprises, [2023] — SF FANTASY FOSTER, M.
  • The intertwined stories of two students and the headmistress of a school for the Deaf. A thought-provoking and entertaining examination of Deaf culture, American Sign Language, and the controversy of cochlear implants.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023] — BOOK CLUB NOVIC, S.
  • A teenager is paralyzed by a gunshot, and unsettling occurrences at her rehab facility compel her to investigate.
    Graphic Novel, 2020Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2020] — TEEN GRAPHIC NIJKAMP, M.
  • No Time Like the Future

    An Optimist Considers Mortality

    Fox, Michael J., 1961-
    Fox's candid memoir about his experience with young onset Parkinson's and now a spinal cord issue.
    Book, 2020New York : Flatiron Books, 2020. — BIOGRAPHY FOX, M. FOX
  • Fast-paced coming of age story told with text, paint, collage, and drawings.
    Book, 2021Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press, 2021. — TEEN FICTION ASPHYXIA
  • In a collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, the author describes her life as an advocate and educator.
    Book, 2022New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022. — BIOGRAPHY WONG, A. WON
  • A thriller about a man with a degenerative disease who witnesses a kidnapping.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — FICTION LEITCH, W.
  • In 1945 Manhattan a preeminent detective plies her trade while coping with multiple sclerosis. The first in a series.
    Book, 2020New York : Doubleday, [2020] — MYSTERY SPOTSWOOD, S.
  • Being Heumann

    An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

    Heumann, Judith E.,
    The author's life of tireless activism after being paralyzed by polio.
    Book, 2020Boston : Beacon Press, [2020] — BIOGRAPHY HEUMANN, J. HEU
  • A blind woman suspects that her 3 month old baby has been swapped.
    Book, 2020New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2020. — FICTION FREY, R.