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61) Life Hacks
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English
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* Mastering the Moneu Mindset* How to Write a Romance Novel* How to be Happy - Happiness Hacks
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English
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The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs. 'We had such a variety of experts visiting our home, we really needed a revolving door. All these professionals would watch our son playing while shaking their heads and making tutting sounds, like builders considering a bad job you wanted them to fix. "Tut tut tut. No speech, disordered...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As a child, Matt Hay didn't know his hearing wasn't the way everyone else processed sound-and like a lot of kids who do workarounds to fit in, even the school nurse didn't catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But as a prospective college student who couldn't pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay's condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his hearing was going, and fast. Soundtrack of Silence was his determined...
66) Shiny misfits
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Bay Ann is sure her tap dance will shine at the school talent show, but when her crush, Alyee Maq, catches her before she falls (which was his fault anyway) and gets all the "fame" she is determined to beat him at his own attention-seeking game.
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When four-year-old Claudia Marseille was diagnosed with severe hearing loss and received her first hearing aid, her lifelong journey to fit in began. Here, she reveals how she overcame loneliness and isolation and carved out a fulfilling life for herself somewhere between the mainstream culture and the Deaf world"--
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Dreaming of playing on her school's soccer team but self-conscious about her hearing aids, Zoe is too nervous to try out until some new friends show her that being different is extraordinary, giving her the courage to find self-acceptance and confidence to achieve her goal.
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Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police department. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from their land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions: Was your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the...
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dive into this illustrated picture book based on Jessica's story, where a mermaid with no tail decides she wants to compete in the Mermaid Games. The other mermaids make fun of her for being different. But her adoptive turtle parents are supportive and encouraging, and her shark coach, Phelpsy, teaches her to swim using her arms. The mermaid trains hard, maintains a good attitude, and eventually wins the games"--
72) Zenith man
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Part true crime, part courtroom drama, this moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men recounts the case of Alvin Ridley, an autistic Zenith TV repair man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had, and the lawyer who believe in--and proved--his innocence.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and...
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
"aSonia y sus amigos siembran un jardín, y cada uno contribuye a su manera."--
"Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans."--
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The school dance is on Saturday, and twelve-year-old Drew Daniels, the Fantastic Freewheeler, has overused his information absorbing ability trying to impress his date, Maxima--so when an actual alien shows up at the Interplanetary Dance he can not use his power to communicate with the party crasher.
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