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Quentin Kenihan is living proof that superheroes don't need capes, just the right attitude. When he was a kid, Quentin loved Superman. Ironic, really. Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta, his bones broke all on their own. When Quentin was seven, Mike Willesee made a documentary about him. Australians fell in love with his wit and never-say-die attitude. Over the years he grew up before our eyes. But there was a dark side to his life. The true story was never told...until now.

The Awakening of HK Derryberry is the inspiring story of how one man was willing to step out of his upper-middle-class world into the life of a young, disabled boy with a dismal future but an amazing ability. Little did Jim Bradford know the transformational potential of that friendship - for HK and himself.

In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans.

A Rocky Start feels like a potential classic: an authentic treatise on the state of America's mental health establishment and the help or damage it metes out to people who desperately need its services, written by someone who knows that world intimately, from inside both its real and perceived walls. Fisher describes A Rocky Start as "a candid and rare look into one particularly complex life." It is that and more. Fisher's natural intelligence drives the narrative.

Eight Fingers and Eight Toes: Accepting Life's Challenges is a story of the power of a mother's love for her children and her journey of self-love. It is a story of struggles and learning to accept and overcome challenges. One takes a front row seat as the author learns answers to questions asked decades ago that result in part from the family being the first ever to have their entire genome sequenced.

La tarde no habiacute;a comenzado de esta manera.

Texas governor and rising star in the Republican Party - one of the first prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair since Franklin D. Roosevelt - Governor Greg Abbott pens his deeply personal and inspiring life story and proposes a plan to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich calls a "bold and compelling" read. Texas Governor Greg Abbott lost his ability to walk when a huge oak tree crashed down on his back, fracturing vertebrae into his spinal cord, leaving him forever paralyzed.

Don entered the workforce as a young man barely out of high school, full of enthusiasm and idealism. He soon received a reality check about corporate America. Raised in the middle class, he believed in the value system of an honest day's work for an honest wage. That by doing what was "right" and working hard, he would succeed. The Company Store, however, had other plans for him and his coworkers - the American working class.

¿Por qué contentarnos con vivir a rastras cuando sentimos el anhelo de volar? En el maravilloso reino de la mente he de ser libre como los demás. Helen Keller nació en Alabama, Estados Unidos de América, en 1880. Por una grave enfermedad, antes de los dos años de edad, perdió la vista y el oído, lo que le impidió también aprender a hablar.

The autobiography of Nymphus Coridon (N. C.) Hanks with notes by John Hanks, great nephew; Joseph E. (Jay) Hanks, brother; and Lori K. Hanks Hill, grandniece. Cory tells how he rose from the depths of hell to the pinnacle of human experience, sharing his victory with the world. You will never look at your troubles the same way again.

February 29th is a date that comes into existence just once every four years. It is also the birthday of Thais - author Anne-Dauphine Julliand's darling daughter - who died of a genetic disease. Thais lived just shy of her fourth birthday. She had a short life but good one. As this special day is about to reappear on her calendar for the first time since her daughter passed away, Anne-Dauphine struggles with how to mark this momentous occasion. She wants to live fully on this special day: Thais would have been eight years old.

Ein persönliches Plädoyer für Toleranz und Freude am Leben Menschen tätscheln ihm den Kopf oder starren ihn an - Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen, der aufgrund seiner Glasknochen im Rollstuhl sitzt und kleinwüchsig ist, weiß, dass viele Menschen Schwierigkeiten haben, mit Behinderten unverkrampft umzugehen. Dabei ist jeder zehnte Deutsche behindert, da sollten wir uns doch eigentlich an den Umgang mit jenen gewöhnt haben, die nicht "normal" sind.

Most sixteen year-old kids joyride in Daddy's pickup. Not Brian Thomas. Instead, you find him out buzzing the football team in Daddy's airplane. Flying is his life - it's in his blood. Both of his parents are pilots. His older brother is in the Air Force. And he can't imagine himself as anything but an aviator. That is, until the bleeding disorder he's battled since he was two years old sidelines him.

Blinded at age three, Mike May defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May's vision.

They put a price on his head. They did everything they could to disrupt his mission. Finally, when an antitank mine tore off his right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most resourceful, determined foes.

"Mal Himmel, mal Hölle!" ist eine biographische Reise durch das Leben und Werk Wolfgang Borcherts, dessen Leben von Extremen angesichts Krieg und Krankheit geprägt war. Dennoch sind seine Geschichten mit Humor und Lebenslust durchzogen, sie erzählen von seiner Begeisterung für Frauen und seiner Besessenheit von der Literatur und dem Theater. Es ist ein Werk, das heute moderner und aktueller denn je erscheint. Absolut hörenswert!

Bárbara Anderson narra con brutal franqueza el día a día de tener un hijo con discapacidad: los retos dentro y fuera de casa, las complicaciones de salud y de vida; los cambios de prioridades; el Everest de cada día al tener un hijo con - hasta ahora - un diagnóstico irreversible como es la parálisis cerebral infantil.

Mit drei Jahren erlitt Ingrid Mundschin-Bohn eine Hirnhautentzündung, an der sie fast gestorben wäre. In Deutschland, wo sie als Tochter eines deutschen Vaters und einer Schweizer Mutter aufwuchs, war gerade der Krieg zu Ende gegangen, die Medikamente waren immer noch knapp, und die Ärzte wollten keine Antibiotika verschwenden an einem Kind, das in ihren Augen bereits abgeschrieben war. Aber Ingrid Mundschin ließ sich nicht abschreiben, sondern wuchs zu einer lebensfrohen und selbstbewussten Frau heran.

It was a crisp winter day when six-year-old Kacey McCallister lost both of his legs, forever altering the course of his life. This unthinkable trial could have broken him, but from that day forward, he chose to rise above his circumstances and learn to live without limits. For those struggling to find hope in the depths of physical, spiritual, or emotional trials, this incredible story of one man’s unbreakable courage will inspire and motivate listeners to not only survive, but thrive amidst life’s challenges.

Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative nonfiction that details the author’s experiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as she grew up, she was estranged from people and turned to reading and writing for solace, eventually establishing a career as a writer.