Tag: Biographical

• ‘Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship’- Kensky, Jessica. Downes, Patrick

  Based on a real-life partnership, the heartening story of the love and teamwork between a girl and her service dog will illuminate and inspire. Rescue thought he’d grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog — it’s the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he’s better suited to being a service…

  The Disability Archives

  23rd Jan 2024

  Age, Amputee, Author, Autobiography, Book Type, Childrens, Contemporary, D, Disability, Disability Aid User, Fiction, Genre, K, M, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Picture Books, Realistic, Service Dog User

  Amputee, Animals, Biographical, Childrens, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, Picture Book, Realistic, Service Dog User, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA

• ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’- Skloot, Rebecca

  Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though…

  The Disability Archives

  22nd Oct 2023

  Academic, Age, Autobiography, Book Type, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Studies, Genre, Historical, Journalism, Misc, Non-Fiction, S, Terminal Illness

  American History, Biographical, Biopolitics, Black Politics, Body Politics, Cancer, Chronic Illness, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability History, Disability Studies, Healthcare, Henrietta Lacks, Journalism, Medical Consent, Medical Justice, Non-Fiction, POC, Racialised Medical Care, Read By Archivist, Science, Social Issues, Social Justice, Stand Alone, Terminal Illness, USA