Biographies/Memoirs
Deaf Child Crossing
Megan is excited when Cindy moves into her neighborhood-maybe she'll finally have a best friend. Sure enough, the two girls quickly become inseparable. Cindy even starts to learn sign language so they can communicate more easily.
But when they go away to su...
I’ll Scream Later
From Children of a Lesser God to Dancing with the Stars, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actress Marlee Matlin shares her incredible life story in a moving and often surprising memoir.
Simon and Schuster
Sounds Like Home Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
Mary Herring Wright's book adds an important dimension to current literature in that it is a story about an African American deaf child. Her account is historically significant because it provides valuable descriptive information about the faculty and staff of the r...
Mean Little Deaf Queer – A Memoir
In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-procla...
Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption
Brandi Rarus was just 6 when spinal meningitis took away her hearing. Because she spoke well and easily adjusted to lip reading, she was mainstreamed in school and socialized primarily in the hearing community. Brandi was a popular, happy teen, but being fully part...
Ready to Be Heard – How I Lost My Hearing and Found My Voice
When author Amanda McDonough started losing her hearing at the age of 4 she swore her parents to secrecy. She hid her hearing loss for 18 years from her friends, family, teachers, and acquaintances. As the author grew older, her hearing gradually decreased, causing...
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she disc...
No Excuses
Trailblazing Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman Jr.—the first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL—tells his inspirational journey of persevering through every obstacle, remaining dedicated to the hard work and a no-excuses attitude that ultimately earne...
Alone in the Mainstream
When Gina Oliva first went to school in 1955, she didn't know that she was "different." But, when the kindergarten teacher played the piano to signal the next activity and other students began to move, Oliva didn't react. She couldn't hear the music. So began her ...
Silent Alarm
Steven Schrader spent 15 years as a firefighter and EMT (emergency medical technician), most of them in Atlanta, Ga, where he experienced the full scan of human distress and misery. Like so many EMTs, he faced these tragedies and various associated hazards with unfl...