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Disabled Well-Being & memoirbooks

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Rebuilding Sergeant Peck: How I Put Body and Soul Back Together After Afghanistan

Marine Sgt. John Peck survived an IED during the War on Terror that left him with a traumatic brain injury, amnesia, and cost him his marriage. He survived another three years later, one that left him with three and a half limbs missing.

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John Peck, Dava Guerin, Terry Bivens
2024
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Living the Invisible Disability: Coping with Post Concussion Syndrome Traumatic Brain Injury & Depression

Who hasn't had a rough day? What if that 'rough day' ended up spanning the course of years? And, it was invisible to others.... Hannah's life was going great. She was a stylist with high profile clients in Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, and Miami.

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Hannah Andrusky
2024
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If at Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny

Comedian Zach Anner opens his frank and devilishly funny book, If at Birth You Don’t Succeed, with an admission: he botched his own birth. Two months early, underweight and under-prepared for life, he entered the world with cerebral palsy and an uncertain future.

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Zach Anner
2017
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The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor

When Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring for his wife, Joan, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine.

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Arthur Kleinman
2019
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Hazard: A Sister’s Flight from Family and a Broken Boy

Hazard is a poignant, unflinching memoir of the emotional intricacies of growing up with a severely disabled sibling.

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Margaret Combs
2024
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Lucky

From tragedy to triumph, one step at a time—an inspirational story of triumph over adversity against the odds At just 28 years old, Ed Jackson was told he would never walk again.

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Ed Jackson
2022
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Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution

“If I didn’t fight, who would?” Judy Heumann was only 5 years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, Judy had a drive for equality that was instilled early in life.

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Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
2024
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Ascending Adversity: The Journey of a Polio Survivor Dealing with Disability and Discrimination

In this heartwarming memoir, Mohammed Yousuf takes us back to when he was first diagnosed with polio at a very young age and his journey to adulthood, facing hardships he could never have imagined.

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Mohammed Yousuf
2020
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Run, Don’t Walk: The Curious and Courageous Life Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center

In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape.

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Adele Levine
2015
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Tough as They Come

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier’s story. Thousands of soldiers die every year to defend their country.

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Travis Mills, Marcus Brotherton
2024
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