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1) Coming home
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As far as former NFL star Jake Masters is concerned, dreams are risky propositions. Years ago he came achingly close to achieving his ambition of playing in the Super Bowl--before a spinal injury ended his career. Confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility, Jake now stays cocooned behind the imposing gates of his lavish home. But his twin sister, Beth, has no intention of letting him...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"From disability advocate with a PhD in disability studies and creative nonfiction, and creator of the Instagram account @ sitting pretty, an essay collection based on a lifetime of experiences in a paralyzed body, tackling themes of identity, accessibility, bodies, and representation"--
5) Happy again
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An easy-to-read story about Lucas the lion who learns how to live life with a physical disability with help from his friends and family"--
6) Eden mine
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From an act of political violence that tears apart a family's faith and community, S. M. Hulse crafts a compelling novel that mines the deep rifts that come when the reach of the government clashes with individual freedom"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
London, 1850: Isabelle Rackham knows she will not marry for love. Though arranged marriages have fallen out of fashion, hers has been settled for some time to combine the upper-middle-class wealth of her father's coal mines with Alexander Osgood's prospering Northern country textile mills. Though not a man prone to romantic gestures, Alexander is well-known as an eligible bachelor. His good looks have turned more than one head, so Isabelle is content...
Author
Publisher
Mango Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lauren "Lolo'' Spencer provides a candid and real inside look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate embarks on the importance of visibility for the disabled community because representation matters! Words from someone doing the work. Lolo Spencer gained popularity as a YouTube personality. On her platform, Sitting Pretty, she encourages viewers to achieve their dreams through making strong choices. Lolo shares...
10) Warm springs
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
11) The coward
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job. Worse still, he's forced to live back home with the father he hasn't spoken to in ten years. Add in a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and the fact that total strangers now treat him like he's an idiot, and it's a recipe for self-destruction. How can he stop himself careering out of control?...
12) Perfect world: 3
Series
Perfect world (Manga) volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"26-year-old Tsugumi Kawana reunites with her first crush from high school, Itsuki Ayukawa, at a get-together between an architecture firm and the interior design company she works at. He sends her heart aflutter, until she realizes he's now disabled, and in a wheelchair. At first she feels she couldn't date a guy in a wheelchair, but then her feelings begin to change ..."--Publisher.
13) Perfect world: 1
Series
Perfect world (Manga) volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The moving, provocative manga about the struggles and triumphs in love of a woman and a man who uses a wheelchair comes to print! An office party reunites Tsugumi with her high school crush Itsuki. He's realized his dream of becoming an architect, but along the way, he experienced a spinal injury that put him in a wheelchair. Now Tsumugi's rekindled feelings will butt up against prejudices she never considered -- and Itsuki will have to decide if...
14) Perfect world: 2
Series
Perfect world (Manga) volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After reuniting at a work party, Tsugumi begins dating her high school classmate and first crush, Itsuki, who has since sustained a spinal cord injury and now uses a wheelchair. While at first reluctant to let someone into his heart, Itsuki begins to open up to her. Tsugumi realizes that there's still so much to Itsuki that she has yet to learn, but the deeper the love grows, the tougher the realities they face become. Pitted against Tsugumi's disapproving...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Napal, who brought Jason Morgan back from the brink. It is the story of a funny, lovable dog's power to heal a family and teach a wounded man how to be a true father. Humorous, intensely moving, and uplifting, this tale will lift every heart.
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