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• Welcoming the Rain

  a Novel

  Hendrick, Bess (Author),

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  Raymie Jamieson inhabits her own world, a quiet one of muted colors and shapes distorted by declining eyesight. On a gray September day, an outgoing stranger named Marcie brings a splash of color to that world. Drawn to Marcie's mix of audacity and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Upward Bound

  a Novel

  Brown, Woody,

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  Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who lost his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sideways Life of Denny Voss

  a Novel

  Kennedy, Holly,

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  On the surface, Denny Voss's life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill to help pay the bills. Though his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• True Biz

  a Novel

  Nović, Sara, 1987-

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  This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being Ace

  An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

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  Discover the infinite realms of asexual love across sci-fi, fantasy, and contemporary stories. From a wheelchair user racing to save her kidnapped girlfriend and a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, to a slayer whose virgin…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fourth Wing

  Yarros, Rebecca,

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  Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death of the Author

  a Novel

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful sci-fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative -- a surprisingly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's All in Your Head

  a Novel

  Nordqvist, Sabina,

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  Your fake relationship shouldn't come with chronic feelings. Skylar is done with offline relationships-especially romantic ones. Living with chronic illness means she's heard it all before: unreliable, high-maintenance, too much. She'd rather spend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chemistry Test

  Frankie, Georgina,

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  Incredibly resilient and determined to rewrite the possibilities of life with a chronic illness, Penny is ready to leave her family behind and go to college by herself, accompanied by a snazzy new wheelchair and a backpack full of confidence. When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hunchback

  a Novel

  Ichikawa, Saō, 1979-

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  Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka's physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Soul Jar

  Thirty-one Fantastical Tales by Disabled Authors

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  Too often, science fiction and fantasy stories erase--or cure--characters with disabilities. Soul Jar, edited by author and bookstore owner Annie Carl, features thirty-one stories by disabled authors, imagining such wonders as a shapeshifter on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Panpocalypse

  Moore, Carley,

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  In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down New York City in search of connection.

• Accessing the Future

  a Disability-themed Speculative Fiction Anthology

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  The fifteen authors and nine artists in this volume bring us beautiful, speculative stories of disability and mental illness in the future. Teeming with space pirates, battle robots, interstellar travel and genetically engineered creatures, every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Liddy-Jean Marketing Queen and the Matchmaking Scheme

  SanGiovanni, Mari,

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  Liddy-Jean Carpenter has learning disabilities. But she also has a surprisingly genius plan. While she spends her days doing minor office tasks with nobody really paying attention, she sees how badly the big boss treats the Marketing Department…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Kings Bad Kings

  A Novel

  Nussbaum, Susan

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  Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum's powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers—alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy—except that they live in an institution for juveniles with disabilities. This unfamiliar,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Someone You Can Build a Nest in

  Wiswell, John, 1981-

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  A creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance--from the perspective of the monster--by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell. Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spare Man

  Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969-

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  Hugo and Nebula Award Winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense, hard-SF approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high society in this stylish SF mystery. Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• So Lucky

  Griffith, Nicola,

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  Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can't rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Las Madres

  a Novel

  Santiago, Esmeralda,

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  Returning to Puerto Rico to help her mother learn more about her early life, Marysol, along with her mother's friends "las Madres" and their daughter Graciela, finds the trip disrupted by two hurricanes and a secret that blows their lives wide open,…Read moreRead more of this annotation