Disability

See also disability studies.

According to many definitions, a disability or functional impairment is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these. Other definitions describe disability as the societal disadvantage arising from such impairments. Disability substantially affects a person's life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime.
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New Releases Tagged "Disability"

Queen of Faces (Queen of Faces, #1)
It's All in Your Head
Highland Hideaway
PAH! (Deaf Hearts, #3)
Gloria Don't Speak
Ziggy's Voice (The Wilde Men, #2)
Next Level Love
Rebound Control (Chicago Thunder, #5)
Nash (Honorably Discharged, #4)
Mighty The Fallen
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
Outlier (Daydreamer, #3)
Next of Kin (Next, #1)
How to Keep House While Drowning
More or Less Maddy
Comeback (Holland Brothers, #3)
Gold Digger (Daydreamer, #2)
A Dance of Lies (The Edge of Glass, #1)
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
Happiness Falls
His Juliet (Empire of Royals, #2)
Like a Power Play
Strong Female Character
Write Me for You
It's All in Your Head
Noah's Rainy Day by Sandra BrannanUnswerving by Barbara RidleyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark HaddonThis Is All I Ask by Lynn KurlandThe Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
Best Books with Handicapped Hero
133 books — 103 voters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieCinder by Marissa MeyerAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzEleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Diversity in Young Adult and Middle Grade
1,918 books — 1,218 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
667 books — 359 voters
Archer's Voice by Mia SheridanDevil in Winter by Lisa KleypasRavished by Amanda QuickJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSaving Grace by Julie Garwood
Quiet girl meets tortured hero
110 books — 166 voters

The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer AshleyWhen Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa JamesYours Until Dawn by Teresa MedeirosTo Beguile a Beast by Elizabeth HoytFlowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale
Books with Disabled Heroes
588 books — 534 voters

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
El Deafo
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
True Biz
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Stephen Hawking

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