Disabled Own Voices Books

Top 10 Disabled Own Voices Books : Far From You, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, Queens of Geek, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, It's Kind of a Funny Story, The Reckless Oath We Made, El Deafo, Failure to Communicate, Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

Far From You

Author	Tess Sharpe
ISBN	1780621655

Nine months. Two weeks. Six days.

That's how long recovering addict Sophie's been drug-free. Four months ago her best friend, Mina, died in what everyone believes was a drug deal gone wrong - a deal they think Sophie set up. Only Sophie knows the truth. She and Mina shared a secret, but there was...

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

Author	Marieke Nijkamp
ISBN	0374306508

This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today's teen readers a glimpse into the lives of disabled...

Queens of Geek

Author	Jen Wilde
ISBN	1250111390

Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself.

Charlie likes to stand out. She’s a vlogger and actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to...

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

Author	Bethany Hamilton
ISBN	1416503463

They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing—not even the loss of her arm—could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark’s...

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

Author

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Lambda Literary Award finalist

In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate...

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Author

Ned Vizzini

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping...

The Reckless Oath We Made

Author	Bryn Greenwood
ISBN	0525541845

Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, she has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss.

Zee may not be a princess, but...

El Deafo

Author	Cece Bell
ISBN	1419710206

Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain...

Failure to Communicate

Author

Kaia Sønderby

As one of the only remaining autistics in the universe, Xandri Corelel has faced a lot of hardship, and she's earned her place as the head of Xeno-Liaisons aboard the first contact ship Carpathia. But her skill at negotiating with alien species is about to be put to the ultimate test.

The Anmerilli,...

Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

Author

Lynne M. Thomas

COVER
"And With the Lamps We Are Multitudes of Light" by Likhain

EDITORIAL
"The Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Manifesto" by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien

FICTION
"The House on the Moon" by William Alexander
"Birthday Girl" by Rachel Swirsky
"An...

Stronger

Author	Jeff Bauman
ISBN	1455584371

The New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor.

When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized...

Uncanny Magazine Issue 30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue

Author

Lynne M. Thomas

The September/October 2019 Disabled People Destroy Fantasy special issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Sarah Gailey, Lane Waldman, Jei D. Marcade, Tochi Onyebuchi, Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, and Aysha U. Farah. Essays by Kari Maaren, Gwendolyn Paradice,...

Planetfall

Author

Emma Newman

From the award-nominated author Emma Newman, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place...

The Princess Diarist

Author	Carrie Fisher
ISBN	0399173595

The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fisher’s intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.

When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first...