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OverDrive Audiobooks July 2024
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"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of." -- Bethany Hamilton
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The Country of the Blind : a Memoir At the End of Sight
by Andrew Leland
In a book that is part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, the author, midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, explores the state of being that awaits him, not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics and customs so he can not only survive this transition but grow from it.
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Disability Pride : Dispatches From a Post-ADA World
by Ben Mattlin
An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today and how attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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The Hard Parts : a Memoir of Courage and Triumph
by Oksana Masters
The United States' most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete tells how she overcame Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges through sheer determination and a drive to succeed to win the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing and road cycling competitions.
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Disfigured : On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
by Amanda Leduc
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
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The Beach At Summerly : a Novel
by Beatriz Williams
In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters where she's forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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Summer On the Bluffs : a Novel
by Sunny Hostin
An Emmy Award-winning cohost of The View makes her literary debut with a novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard.
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Bad Summer People
by Emma Rosenblum
Two Fire Island queen bees and their single friend who meant to spend summertime relaxing and gossiping discover a body face down off the side of the boardwalk and in addition to uncovering the murderer also reveal infidelity and backstabbing.
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The High Tide Club
by Mary Kay Andrews
Unexpectedly hired by an eccentric millionaire from a vast barrier island home, a young attorney learns the story of the new client's now-deceased circle of friends, her determination to protect the land from developers, disturbing clues about a long-unsolved murder and her ambitious plans for heirs and descendants.
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The Hotel Nantucket : a Novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
Attempting to win the favor of the Hotel Nantucket's new London billionaire owner, general manager Lizbet Keaton, with drama behind closed doors, staff and guests with complicated pasts, a ghost roaming the halls and her own romantic uncertainty, has her work cut out for her.
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