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Disability Resource Library Catalogue

This is the catalogue of the Disability Resource Library. Below are tables of all the resources in the library at present. The details may not all be correct, and much is missing as we have not read all of the resources, if you are able to provide more details (especially content warnings), want to suggest corrections or review one of the resources then please email us.

Contents:

Academic Self Help Anthology Biography Fiction Audio – Music DVD – Documentary DVD – Film DVD – TV Non-Fiction: General Resources

Content Warnings:

U = unknown - there may be other triggers. A = ableism - significant discrimination against disabled people or discussion thereof D = death, generally character death SA = sexual assalt/rape Ab = abuse SI = self injury/suicide

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Academic

Title Author Warnings Available? Area of

focus Year ISBN

Claiming disability: knowledge

& identity

Simi Linton U Yes

1998 0814751342

Nothing about us without us:

Disability oppression and

empowerment

James

Charlton U Yes

2000 0520207955

The New Politics of

Disablement

Mike Oliver U Yes

2012 0333945670

Why I burned my book and

other essays on disability

Paul

Longmore U Yes

2003 1592130240

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Self help

Title Author Warnings Available? Area of focus Year ISBN

Benefits and Work

DLA guide

Benefits and

Work A Reference

Disability

Living

Allowance

2012

Caged in Chaos: A

dyspraxic guide to

breaking free

Victoria Biggs U

Dyspraxia 2005 1843103478

I had a black dog

Matthew

Johnson None

Depression 2005 1845295897

Living with a Black

Dog

Matthew and

Ainsley

Johnson

None

Depression 2008 1845297431

Taming the black

dog: How to beat

depression

Patrick

Elleverton U

Depression 2004 1857039998

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Anthology

Title Author Warnings Available? Area of

focus Year ISBN

Lives worth living:

women's experiences

of chronic illness

Veronica

Marris U Yes

Disabled

women,

Chronic

Illness

1996 0044409389

Mustn't Grumble:

writing by disabled

women

Lois Keith U Yes Disabled

women 1994 0704343444

Staring back: The

disability experience

from the inside out

Kenny Fries U Yes

1997 0452279135

The Ragged Edge: The

Disability Experience

from the Pages of the

Disability Rag

Barrett Shaw U No

1994 0962706450

What happened to you? Lois Keith U Yes Disabled

women 1996 1565840259

With the power of each

breath: a disabled

women's anthology

Susan Brown,

Debra

Conner, Nanci

Stern

U Yes Disabled

women 1990 0939416069

Women with disabilities:

Found voices.

Mary Willmuth

and Lillian

Holcomb

U Yes Disabled

women 1994 1560230460

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Biography

Title Author Warnings Available? Area of

focus Year ISBN

Annie's Coming Out

Rosemary

Crossley &

Anne

McDonald

A U Yes Cerebral

Palsy 1980 0140224432

Don't worry, he won't

get far on foot

John Callahan U Yes Paralysis 1990 1873922086

Missing Pieces Irving Zola U Yes

Polio and

mobility

impairments

1982 0877223114

Moving Violations:

War zones,

wheelchairs, and

declarations of

independence

John

Hockenberry D U No Paralysis 1995 0786881623

My Left Foot Christy Brown U Yes Cerebral

Palsy 1954 1900480107

Nobody Nowhere Donna Williams U Yes

Autistic

Spectrum

disorders

1992 0380722178

Phone at nine, just

to say you're alive

Linda Hart U

Mental health

impairments 1995 033035180X

Planet of the blind: A

memoir.

Stephen

Kuusisto U Yes

Sensory

impairments 1998 0571196969

Spasm: a memoir of

lies

Lauren Slater U Yes Epilepsy 2000 0413742504

The Diving Bell and

the Butterfly (book)

Jean-

Dominique

Bauby

U Yes Locked-in

syndrome 1997 1857027949

Too late to die

young: Nearly true

tales from a life

Harriet

McBryde

Johnson

U Yes Muscular

Dystrophy 2005 0805075941

Twitch and Shout Lowell Handler U Yes Tourette's 1999 0816644519

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Why Can't Sharon

Kowalski Come

home?

Karen

Thompson &

Julie

Andrzejewski

A O U Yes Legal rights 1988 0933216467

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Fiction

Title Author Warnings Available? Area of focus Year ISBN

Accidents of

Nature

Harriet McBryde

Johnson U Yes Cerebral Palsy 2006 1842707418

Apprentice

Devil

Lisa Vasil U Yes Epilepsy

1869500776

April Witch Majgull Axelsson U Yes Cerebral Palsy 1997 0812966880

Blood Songs Penelope Rowe U Yes Mental Health

Impairments 1997 009183628X

Bone Truth Anne Finger U No Polio 1994

Cordelia's

honour

Lois McMaster

Bujold U Yes

Multiple

disabilities

1986

-

1991

0671578286

Out of my mind

Sharon M

Draper U Yes Cerebral Palsy 2011 1416971718

Peckham

Invalids Issue 1

Howard

Hardiman, Julia

Scheele and

Sarah Gordon

U Yes

A range of

disabled

characters

2011

-

2012

Peckham

Invalids The

Cooperage

Howard

Hardiman, Julia

Scheele and

Sarah Gordon

U Yes

A range of

disabled

characters

2011

-

2012

Psychiatric

Tales by Darryl

Cunningham

Darryl

Cunningham U Yes

Mental health

conditions 2010 1906653089

Skallagrigg William Horwood U Yes Cerebral Palsy 1987 0140231773

Star Dancer Beth Webb U Yes

2006 1405091754

Stones from

the River

Ursula Hegi U Yes Short stature 1997 0684858096

The Deptford

Trilogy

Robertson

Davies A U Yes

Mental health

impairments,

physical

disfigurement

1970

-

1975

0140147551

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You know

you've been

pushing it

when...

Hannah Ensor U Yes Mobility

impairments 2010 0956428479

Young Miles

Lois McMaster

Bujold U Yes

Multiple

disabilities

1986

-

1990

0671877828

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Audio - music

Title Author Warnings Available? Area of

focus Year ISBN

Reasons to Be

Cheerful: the Best of Ian

Dury

Ian Dury U Yes Singer with

polio

1974 -

1999 B000AMSRU8

Respect: Songs of the

Self-Advocacy

Movement

Karl

Williams SA U Yes

Self-

advocacy 1998 B001HEIFSW

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DVD - Documentary

Title Accessibility notes Warnings Available? Area of focus Year ISBN

Brother's

Keeper

English Audio U Yes Mental Health

Impairments 1992 B00008DDJ6

In the Land

of the Deaf

English Subtitles U Yes Sensory

Impairments 1992 B000A16HTC

Murderball English Audio U Yes Paralysis 2005 B000BY9ALA

My Flesh

and Blood U No

Multiple

disabilities 2003

Sound and

Fury

English Audio,

English Subtitles,

Closed Captions

U Yes Sensory

Impairments 2000 B00005RIY3

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DVD - Film

Title Accessibility

notes Warnings Available? Area of focus Year ISBN

Away from her

English Audio,

English Subtitles,

Closed Captions

U Yes Alzheimers 2006 B00005RIY3

Colour of

Paradise

English Subtitles U Yes Sensory

Impairments 1999 B00005QB99

Elling English Subtitles U Yes Mental Health

Impairments 2001 B0041KY4W0

Profoundly

Normal

English Audio U Yes Mental Health

Impairments 2003 B001J2XRLC

The Diving Bell

and the

Butterfly (DVD)

English Audio,

English Subtitles D Yes

Looked-in

syndrome 2007 B0015VI366

The Eighth

Day ( Le

Huitième Jour )

English Subtitles U Yes Down's

syndrome 1996 B00018QU32

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DVD - TV

Title Accessibility

notes Warnings Available? Area of focus Year ISBN

Avatar The

Last Airbender

Season 1

English Audio A D Yes

Sensory, mobility

and mental health

impairments

2005 B001KQ034G

Avatar The

Last Airbender

Season 2

English Audio A D Yes

Sensory, mobility

and mental health

impairments

2005 B0028PIQDI

Avatar The

Last Airbender

Season 3

English Audio A D Yes

Sensory, mobility

and mental health

impairments

2005 B002XDQH54

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Non-fiction general

Title Author Warnings Available? Area of

focus Year ISBN

Nothing ventured:

Disabled people travel

the world

Rough Guide

edited by Alison

Walsh

U

Travel 1991 0747102082

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Resources

Self help and information

Title Author Subject

Area Description Warnings

Benefits and

Work Collaboration

DLA &

ESA Detailed guides to DLA and ESA A

More

Info

NHS Carers

Direct NHS Benefits

Guides to what benefits and help

you might be entitled to None

More

Info