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Summary: In the 1970s an important disability rights law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, was waiting to be signed. Judy [Heumann] and other disability rights activists fought for YES! They held a sit-in until Section 504 was signed into law. Section 504--established thanks in large part to the ongoing work of Judy and her community--laid the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HEUSummary: Meet Jill, the unhinged owner of a small town beauty salon, and enter her dysfunctional world. Pretending that her hospitalized husband is dying, Jill is on a mission to find a man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NIGBerne, Emma Carlson
Summary: "Discover 25 women whose disabilities did not stand in the way of their great achievements. Each woman profiled in this collection faced the challenge of a disability while pursuing excellence in her field, including the arts, sciences, sports, and politics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 BERSummary: The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Absorbed in research directed towards freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerated into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll takes steps to do away with his evil self.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HAMBrown, Keah
Summary: "From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn't always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, KEAH BROBalogh, Mary
Summary: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society-even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMaso, Carole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 MASCronin, Mary Eileen.
Summary: A woman born without legs describes her life growing up as one of eleven children in a large Catholic family, wearing prosthetics, going to school, facing bullies, and searching for love and happiness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRONIN, MARY EILEEN CROBalogh, Mary
Summary: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: After leaving her no-good rodeo boyfriend, Mary Madigan ends up in Oklahoma Creek where she meets journalist Rick, pregnant Phoebe, and HIV-positive Ness, all of whom join forces to help, comfort, and love each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAPTaussig, Rebekah
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAUSSIG, REBEKAH TAUSummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADMasumoto, David Mas
Summary: "A family separated by racism against Japanese Americans and the discrimination of people with developmental disabilities--reunited seventy years later, returning to their roots on a farm and bound by family secrets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASUMOTO, DAVID MAS MASRapp Black, Emily
Summary: At first sight of Frida Kahlo's painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist. An amputee from childhood, Rapp Black grew up with a succession of prosthetic limbs and learned that she had to hide her disability from the world. Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo's art, Rapp Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Notting Hill Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAPP BLACK, EMILY RAPP BLABaker, Mishell
Summary: Four months ago, Millie left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of an Unseelie fey countess. Now, in a final visit to the scene of the crime, Millie and her former boss Caryl encounter Teo's tormented ghost. But there's one problem: according to Caryl, ghosts don't exist. Millie has a new life, a stressful job, and no time to get pulled back into the Project,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKRogers, Judi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Demos 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.3 ROGWatson, Brad
Summary: "Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog- Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions ofthe South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATBaker, Mishell.
Summary: "A cynical, paraplegic screenwriter with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in the first book of a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Confined to a wheelchair since childhood, Rebekah Stoltzfus believes it'll take a miracle for her to ever enjoy the blessings of marriage or self-sufficiency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRUFanning, Dakota
Summary: A young autistic women runs from her caregiver and looks to submit her manuscript to a Star Trek writing contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2018
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Summary: When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF OKODelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: When a friend is charged with a fifteen-year-old murder, wheelchair-bound Poppy Blake at first refuses to believe the charges but then wonders if her friend may have justifiably changed her identity in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DELSpanogle, Joshua.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006