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Author
Series
Me before you volume 1
Language
English
Description
Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Terror began in January, by the light of the full moon. The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf's fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom. Now scenes of unbelievable horror unfold each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker's Mills. Only one thing is sure-- when the full moon rises, a paralyzing fear sweeps through...
3) Coming home
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
4) Eden mine
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For generations the Fabers have lived near Eden Mine, but Jo and Samuel will be the last: their family home has been seized by the state through eminent domain. Samuel said he was going to find work, but he is last seen by a security camera near the district courthouse at Elk Fork-- just before the bombing. And a nine-year-old girl, the daughter of a pastor of a storefront church, is in critical condition. After violence took their mother and Jo lost...
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"People use wheelchairs for a variety of reasons, and it's important to see the person first and not just the tool they're using to help them get around. This empathetic look at what life is like for someone who uses a wheelchair encourages readers to think about how they can be more accepting of people who experience the world in a different way. Text that presents this sensitive subject in a relatable way, colorful photographs, and fact boxes work...
Series
Criterion collection volume 705
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Director-approved dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
Believing that her prayers to God to bring her husband home from his job on an offshore oil rig caused an accident that left him paralyzed, a pious, young Scottish woman tragically submits to his wish that she take on other lovers.
Author
Series
Surprised by love volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recovering from a horse and buggy accident that took the lives of his family, Jeremiah Zook is struggling to regain both his spirit and his body. While his legs remain stubbornly opposed to moving, he exercises his hands by writing, and finds the perfect outlet for his grief in inspirational letters to the Amish newspaper. When Keturah Esch, a woman who works at the Green Valley Farmer's Market, responds with gratitude, Jeremiah has no idea that his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tornado strikes the farms surrounding Cody's Creek, Anna Schwartz's life is changed forever. She suffers a spinal cord injury and suddenly finds herself learning to live as a paraplegic. Three people--Chloe Roberts, Jacob Graber, and Ruth Schwartz--join forces to help Anna through her darkest days. Chloe is an Englischer who writes for the local paper. Jacob has recently arrived in town and stays on as a hired hand at her uncle's. And Ruth...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alongside his sister Tanya in their battered Biloxi, Mississippi, neighborhood where only half the houses made it through Katrina. One stiflingly hot August afternoon as Cameron sits waiting for Tanya during their daily run to the Biz-E-Bee convenience store, he suddenly and inexplicably rises up and out of his wheelchair. In the aftermath...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xiv, 241 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After a car accident ended the lives of two of his family members and rendered him a paraplegic, the author undergoes rehabilitation at the Mayo Clinic and decides to become a disabled yoga instructor.
13) Perfect match
Author
Language
English
Description
"An injured ex-athlete discovers that giving up on the game of life is not an option... As far as former NFL star Jake Masters is concerned, dreams are risky propositions. Years ago he came achingly close to achieving his ambition of playing in the Super Bowl--before a spinal injury ended his career. Confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility, Jake now stays cocooned behind the imposing...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An accident paralyzed his legs, but not his will to live and love! TV-movie about the struggles of a paraplegic college athlete. Paul Stallings, a happy-go-lucky veterinary student, is paralyzed from the waist down during a polo match. Feeling despondent, he decides to go to his grandfather₂s ranch and meets a young horse trainer, Marnie Clarkson, who helps him overcome his handicap and learn how to live and love again.
Series
Film Movement volume 4, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in a farm tractor, leaving them both paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. But rather than feel sorry for themselves, the embittered paraplegics decide to seek revenge against the tractor's manufacturer. They take to the road, redirecting their frustrations with their plights towards the people they meet on the way to Helsinki.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous, inspirational, or angelic. She longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Here she writes about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn't fit. Taussig reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity,...
19) Warm springs
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Flatscreen tells the story of Eli Schwartz as he endures the loss of his home, the indifference of his parents, the success of his older brother, and the cruel and frequent dismissal of the opposite sex. He is a loser par excellence-- pasty, soft, and high-- who struggles to become a new person in a world where nothing is new. Into this scene of apathy rolls Seymour J. Kahn. Former star of the small screen and current paraplegic sex addict, Kahn...
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