Tag: Physical Disability
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‘Scar of the Bamboo Leaf’- A. M., Sieni
“That boy is like the bamboo…foreign and unknown in this environment. But like the bamboo, if you plant and nurture it in the right soil, it has the potential to grow vibrant and strong.” Walking with a pronounced limp all her life has never stopped fifteen-year-old Kiva Mau from doing what she loves. While most…
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‘Sam’s Super Seats’- Brown, Keah
Title: Sam’s Super Seats Author: Keah Brown, Sharee Miller (Illustrator) Book Type: Picture Book Series: N/A Series Number: N/A Genre: Children’s, Contemporary Fiction Age: Children’s Disability: Cerebral Palsy LGBTQ+: N/A Published: 2022 Setting: USA [ID: A book cover. The title “Sam’s Super Seats” is written at the top in large white capitals. The name of…
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‘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…
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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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‘The Quiet and the Loud’- Fox, Helena
A heartbreaking, hopeful, and timely novel about holding too tight to family secrets, healing from trauma, and falling in love, from the award-winning author of How It Feels to Float George’s life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs…
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‘The Queen of Attolia’- Turner, Megan Whalen
Revenge When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes’s Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eugenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept any help that is…
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‘The Prey of Gods’- Drayden, Nicky
In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there.…
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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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‘Parable of the Talents’- Butler, Octavia, E.
Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel’s timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed.…
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