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Browse through our list on books by and about disabled people, and don't forget to celebrate Disability Pride Month every July!

Books: 
The Sign for Home: A Novel By Blair Fell Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781982175955
Published: Atria/Emily Bestler Books - April 5th, 2022

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

When a young DeafBlind man learns the girl he thought was lost forever might still be out there, he embarks on a life-changing journey to find her—and his freedom.

Arlo Dilly is young, handsome, and eager to meet the right girl.


Adulthood Rites (Lilith's Brood #2) By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781538753729
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - August 24th, 2021

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction.

In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind.


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Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters #1) By Talia Hibbert Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062941206
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Published: Avon - November 5th, 2019

“Absolutely charming... a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page.” – Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Test

USA TODAY BESTSELLER


Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir By James Tate Hill Cover Image
$25.95
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ISBN: 9780393867176
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 3rd, 2021

A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021

A writer’s humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight—and how he hid it from the world.


The Salt Path: A Memoir By Raynor Winn Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143134114
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Published: Penguin Books - March 5th, 2019

"Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."Entertainment Weekly

A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD
OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England


In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin By Lindsey Hilsum Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250234841
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Published: Picador - November 12th, 2019

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Finalist for the Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Named a Best Book of 2018 by Esquire and Foreign Policy. An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard's Books to Read in November


The Kiss Quotient By Helen Hoang Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780451490803
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Published: Berkley - June 5th, 2018

From the author of The Bride Test comes a romance novel hailed as one of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2018!

“This is such a fun read and it's also quite original and sexy and sensitive.”—Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author


Diary of a Young Naturalist By Dara McAnulty Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781571311832
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Published: Milkweed Editions - June 7th, 2022

From Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.


Brief Answers to the Big Questions By Stephen Hawking Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781984819192
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Published: Bantam - October 16th, 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.

“Hawking’s parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity’s future should read.”—NPR


Elena Knows By Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle (Translator) Cover Image
By Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle (Translator)
$15.95
ISBN: 9781999368432
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Published: Charco Press - July 13th, 2021

SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022


I Never Promised You a Rose Garden By Joanne Greenberg, Esmé Weijun Wang (Foreword by), Joanne Greenberg (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Joanne Greenberg, Esmé Weijun Wang (Foreword by), Joanne Greenberg (Afterword by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143136996
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Published: Penguin Classics - May 3rd, 2022

The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, and a new afterword by the author

A Penguin Classic


Geek Love: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Katherine Dunn Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780375713347
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Published: Vintage - June 11th, 2002

National Book Award Finalist Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities--with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes.


The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating By Elisabeth Tova Bailey Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9781616206420
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Published: Algonquin Books - September 6th, 2016

Winner of The Saroyan International Prize for Writing, the John Burroughs Medal, and the National Outdoor Book Award in Natural History Literature
 
“Brilliant.” —The New York Review of Books

“Exquisite.” —The Huffington Post
“Magical.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune



Miracle Creek: A Novel By Angie Kim Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250251305
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Published: Picador - April 7th, 2020

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel
A Time Best Mystery and Thriller Book of All Time

The “gripping… page-turner” (Time) hitting all the best of summer reading lists, Miracle Creek is perfect for book clubs and fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng


True Biz: A Novel By Sara Novic Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593241509
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Published: Random House - April 5th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War


The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me By Keah Brown Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781982100544
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Published: Atria Books - August 6th, 2019

From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.

Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case.


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Six of Crows By Leigh Bardugo Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250076960
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Published: Square Fish - February 6th, 2018

See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone -- Season 2 streaming now!

Meet Kaz Brekker and his crew: Jesper, Inej, Wylan, and the star-crossed Nina and Matthias, on the heist of a lifetime in Six of Crows from #1 bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.