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Ability Diverse Fiction

Fiction always allows us to better understand other people's lives. Here are some wonderful examples.

Arapahoe Libraries

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  • I love Ginny! She is autistic and from an abusive background, but she is an amazing girl you will be pulling for all the way.
    BookDon Mills, Ontario : Park Row Books, [2017] — LUDWIG
  • Wallace Stegner won a Pulitzer Prize for "Angle of Repose." A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead.
    BookNew York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2014. — CF STEGNER
  • Amelia Winn loses everything: her job, her marriage and even her hearing. What will help her rebuild her life?
    BookDon Mills, Ontario : Park Row Books, [2017] — GUDENKAUF
  • A successful woman deals with Alzheimer's. Made into a movie.
    BookNew York : Pocket Books, [2019] — GENOVA
  • Odette Tucker doesn't let her prosthetic leg stop her pursuit of the truth in this thriller.
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, [2020] — HEABERLIN
  • Seventeen year old Ivan has been life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus after suffering birth defects in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2016. — STAMBACH
  • Chloe vows to have more life experiences despite suffering from chronic pain.
    BookNew York, NY : Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — RF HIBBERT
  • A traumatic but moving story of two people who were institutionalized but escaped to find love together.
    eBookGrand Central Publishing, 2011
  • Edward Hoagland, a prominent author who lost his vision, is writing about a topic he knows well. Press, a stockbroker going blind, has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move.
    eBookArcade, 2016