Category: Wheelchair User
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‘Rebuilding Tomorrow’- Dolichva, Tsana
What if the apocalypse isn’t the end of the world? An anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive, it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is lost. In this follow-up to Defying Doomsday,…
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‘パーフェクトワールド | Perfect World’- Aruga, Rie
26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana reunites with her first crush from high school, Itsuki Ayukawa, at a get-together between an architecture firm and the interior design company she works at. He sends her heart aflutter, until she realizes he’s now disabled, and in a wheelchair. At first she feels she couldn’t date a guy in a wheelchair,…
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‘Peeling’- O’Reilly, Kaite
“Peeling” was commissioned by Graeae Theatre Company and premiered at The Door, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, in February 2002. Alpha, Beaty and Coral – three actresses in ridiculous dresses – bicker, chat, heckle and share tales of sex, lies and recipes in absurd isolation as an epic production unfolds around, and inspite of them. Gradually their…
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‘Out of My Mind’- Draper, Sharon M.
Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom – the very same classmates…
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‘Odder Still’- Bryn, D. N.
Rubem of No-Man’s Land was content keeping to his wine, his pets, and his extensive collection of fishnets. But since a sentient, fuel-producing parasite bonded to his brainstem, every morally-depraved scientist and hardcore rebel for a hundred miles wants to ruthlessly dissect him. The parasite itself is no better, influencing his emotions and sassing him…
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‘Nothing Without Us Too’- Gordon, Cait. Johnson, Talia C.
Multi-genre fiction where once again, we are the stars. Nothing Without Us Too follows the theme of Nothing Without Us (a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist), featuring more stories by authors who are disabled, d/Deaf, Blind or visually impaired, neurodivergent, Spoonie, and/or who manage mental illness. The lived experiences of their protagonists are found across…
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‘The Library of the Dead’- Huchu, T. L.
When a child goes missing in Edinburgh’s darkest streets, young Ropa investigates. She’ll need to call on Zimbabwean magic as well as her Scottish pragmatism to hunt down clues. But as shadows lengthen, will the hunter become the hunted? When ghosts talk, she will listen… Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghostalker. Now…
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‘Josee, the Tiger and the Fish’- Tanabe, Seiko
College student Tsuneo loves the ocean and the creatures it harbors, and he dreams of studying abroad in faraway waters. All he needs is enough funds to go, so when a girl in a wheelchair suddenly barrels into his life, he readily agrees to work part-time as her caretaker. Getting close to the prickly Josee…
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‘Iron Widow’- Zhao, Xiran Jay
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn’t matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it’s to assassinate the ace male…
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‘Hazel’s Theory of Evolution’- Bigelow, Lisa Jenn
Perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and Raymie Nightingale, this tender middle grade novel from Lisa Jenn Bigelow, acclaimed author of Drum Roll, Please, follows a precocious girl whose life is turned upside down in her last year of middle school. Hazel knows a lot about the world. That’s because when she’s not…
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