Category: Chronic Illness

• ‘Black Bird, Blue Road’- Pasternack, Sofiya

  In this historical fantasy novel from Sydney Taylor Honor winner and National Jewish Book Award finalist Sofiya Pasternack, Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness–even facing the Angel of Death himself. Pesah has lived with leprosy for years, and the twins have spent most of that time working on…

  The Disability Archives

  29th Sep 2023

  Adventure, Age, Author, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Disability, Fantasy, Fiction, Genre, Historical, Leprosy, Middle-Grade, Novels, P, Physical Disability, Terminal Illness

  Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Jewish Characters, Khazaria, Leprosy, Medieval Setting, Middle-Grade, Novel, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, Terminal Illness, Turkic MC

• ‘A Spindle Splintered’- Harrow, Alix E.

  It’s Zinnia Gray’s twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it’s the last birthday she’ll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia’s last birthday…

  The Disability Archives

  14th Sep 2023

  Adult, Age, Author, Bisexual, Book Type, Chronic Illness, Disability, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Genre, H, LGBTQ+, Novella, Retelling, Terminal Illness, Young Adult

  Adult, Bisexual, Chronic Illness, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Fractured Fables, LGBTQ+, Novella, Parallel Worlds, Retelling, Series, Sleeping Beauty, Submitted Book, Terminal Illness, USA, Young Adult

• ‘A Curse So Dark and Lonely’- Kemmerer, Brigid

  Fall in love, break the curse. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir of Emberfall, thought he could be saved easily if a girl fell for him. But that was before he turned into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Before he destroyed his castle,…

  The Disability Archives

  8th Sep 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Illness, Disability, Fantasy, Fiction, Genre, K, Novels, Physical Disability, Retelling, Romance, Terminal Illness, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult

  Beauty and The Beast, Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Cursebreakers, enemies-to-lovers, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fictional Setting, M/F, Magic, Multiple POV, Novel, Physical Disability, Retelling, Romance, Series, Submitted Book, Terminal Illness, Urban Fantasy, USA, Young Adult