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Nemesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as polio)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,732 ratings — published 2010
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as polio)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,482 ratings — published 1996
We Are All Welcome Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as polio)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,976 ratings — published 2006
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as polio)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,135 ratings — published 2005
Chasing Orion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polio)
avg rating 3.60 — 352 ratings — published 2007
Blue (Ann Fay Honeycutt, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as polio)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,503 ratings — published 2006
The Giant-Slayer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polio)
avg rating 4.08 — 750 ratings — published 2009
The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as polio)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,055 ratings — published 2018
The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polio)
avg rating 4.16 — 252 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polio)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,447 ratings — published 2014
The Circus Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.01 — 25,553 ratings — published 2022
Crossing to Safety (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.16 — 53,396 ratings — published 1987
I'll Watch the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,684 ratings — published 2003
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.27 — 508 ratings — published 2013
To Stand On My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937 (Dear Canada)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.25 — 902 ratings — published 2010
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 3.52 — 334 ratings — published 2006
An American Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.08 — 320 ratings — published 2002
The Girl Who Figured It Out: The Inspiring True Story of Wheelchair Athlete Minda Dentler Becoming an Ironman World Champion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.42 — 401 ratings — published
The Woman With the Cure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,672 ratings — published 2023
Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.48 — 124 ratings — published
Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.12 — 25 ratings — published 2013
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.13 — 640 ratings — published 2005
Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.27 — 515 ratings — published 2020
Pixie Pushes On (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.25 — 301 ratings — published 2020
In The Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.12 — 59 ratings — published 1996
Odd & True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,537 ratings — published 2017
All the Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.92 — 386 ratings — published 2001
The Master's Muse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.57 — 515 ratings — published 2012
Dark Star of Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.50 — 22 ratings — published 1983
My Last Days as Roy Rogers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.93 — 430 ratings — published 1999
King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.94 — 661 ratings — published 2012
Where Trees Touch the Sky: A Redwood National Park Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.40 — 344 ratings — published 2024
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.48 — 7,225 ratings — published 2020
These Empty Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.17 — 284 ratings — published 2026
History's Pages (The Knocknashee Story, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.56 — 4,044 ratings — published
Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.26 — 54 ratings — published 1990
No One Leaves the Manor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.87 — 99 ratings — published
Jim the Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,545 ratings — published 2000
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.69 — 5,015 ratings — published 2021
The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.95 — 105 ratings — published 2022
The Good Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,068 ratings — published 2019
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (Vinyl Bound)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,379 ratings — published 1964
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,395 ratings — published 1982
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.08 — 415,795 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,598,475 ratings — published 2003
Curious Dorset (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2004
Die Freundin der Hexe, Band 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.39 — 31 ratings — published 2012
“Though I'd never forgotten Alan, I hadn't uttered his name aloud in the many years since he'd died, back in that decade when it seemed that the greatest menaces on earth were war, the atomic bomb, and polio.”
― Nemesis
― Nemesis
“She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn’t fly away. All her time was taken up with managing herself, working out new ways to do things. Being a different person in the world.”
― The Golden Age
― The Golden Age
