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John Barrowman, Carole E. Barrowman · 256 pages
From his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his starring role in the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, this memoir traces the life and career of actor John Barrowman. John made a name for himself with remarkable West End achievements, including an Olivier Award nomination and success in the movies The Producers and De-Lovely. Television success was also assured when Torchwood won a Best
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
Michael J. Fox · 296 pages
There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual,
The Naked Civil Servant
Quentin Crisp · 217 pages
If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
Zach Anner · 338 pages
"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. So how did this hairless mole-rat of a boy blossom into a viral internet sensation who's hosted two travel shows, impressed Oprah, driv
A Second Wind
Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
"An inspiring, heartfelt, tragi-comic memoir by an aristocratic Frenchman who was paralyzed in a paragliding accident and has to adjust to his new circumstances with the help of his unlikely caregiver-a hot-headed Algerian immigrant with troubles of his own. The basis of the hit French film "Untouchables," coming to the US from the Weinstein Company in summer 2012"--
What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir
Alice Eve Cohen · 194 pages
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possibleAt age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiance that shes never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin. In her unflinchingly hone
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Kate Bornstein · 258 pages
In the early 1970s, a boy from a Conservative Jewish family joined the Church of Scientology. In 1981, that boy officially left the movement and ultimately transitioned into a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman—and became a famous gender outlaw. Gender theorist, performance artist, and author Kate Bornstein is set to change lives with her stunningly original memoir. W
Born on the Fourth of July
Ron Kovic · 224 pages
This New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold) details the author's life story (portrayed by Tom Cruise in the Oliver Stone film version)—from a patriotic soldier in Vietnam, to his severe battlefield injury, to his role as the country's most outspoken anti-Vietnam War advocate, spreading his message from his wheelchair.
Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War‐Torn Syria in a Wheelchair
Nujeen Mustafa · 312 pages
This book tells the inspiring true story of a remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest humanitarian issue of our time, the Syrian refugee crisis.For millions around the globe, sixteen-year-old Nujeen Musta
Memoirs
Tennessee Williams · 268 pages
Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed.
Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
Moshe Kasher · 310 pages
A rising comedian describes with humor the absurdity of his troubled youth in Oakland, California, where his mother walked him on a leash until he chewed through it and ran away and started taking drugs at age twelve.
Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See
Erik Weihenmayer · 360 pages
Joni: An Unforgettable Story
Joni Eareckson Tada, Joe Musser · 224 pages
Autobiography of Joni Eareckson, who at 17 was left a quadriplegic as a result of a diving accident, and who today as an accomplished artist drawing with a pen held in her teeth, describes her struggles and her abiding faith in Christ.
On My Own Two Feet: The Journey from Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
Amy Purdy · 256 pages
Planet of the Blind
Stephen Kuusisto · 200 pages
Stephen Kuusisto has been legally blind since birth, and in this stunning memoir he has succeeded in translating his opaque, kaleidoscopic world of shape and color into poetic and luminous prose. Brought up to disavow his blindness, Kuusisto spent much of his life trying to pass as a sighted man. Fueled by his passion for the written word, Kuusisto successfully conquered academia - until a devast
Dwarf: A Memoir of How One Woman Fought for a Body-and a Life-She Was Never Supposed to Have
Tiffanie DiDonato, Rennie Dyball
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
John Hockenberry · 371 pages
It is a story of obstacles - physical, emotional, and psychic - overcome again, and again, and again. Whether riding a mule up a hillside in Iraq surrounded by mud-stained Kurdish refugees, navigating his wheelchair through intractable stretches of Middle Eastern sand, or auditioning to be the first journalist in space, John Hockenberry, ace reporter, is determined not only to bring back the story
Ghost Boy
Martin Pistorius, Megan Lloyd Davies · 288 pages
My Brief History
Stephen Hawking · 127 pages
Stephen Hawking is one of the most brilliant cosmologists of our time, and author of the 10 million copy bestselling A Brief History of Time, one of the iconic books of its generation. Now, for the first time, he tells the story of his life in his own words, in a book expanded from a lecture of the same name.
Reckoning: A Memoir
Magda Szubanski · 400 pages
Magda Szubanski's childhood in a suburban migrant family was haunted by the demons of her father's life in wartime Poland. At nineteen, fighting in the Warsaw resistance, he had been recruited to a secret counter-intelligence execution squad. His mission was to assassinate Polish traitors who were betraying Jewish citizens to the Nazis. The legacy of her father's bravery left the young Magda with
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Peg Kehret · 179 pages
Where We Going, Daddy? Life with Two Sons Unlike Any Other
Jean-Louis Fournier · 107 pages
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
Michael Hingson · 256 pages
Excellent! This is such a great book about a wonderful man who is blind and his guide dog, who together survived the terrorist attack on our nation 9/11/2001.
The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
Richard Blanco · 260 pages
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. Richard Blanco’s childhood and adolescence were experienced between two imaginary worlds: his parents’ nostalgic w