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  Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

  One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.
  
  A story of fighting to b…

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  Hell Followed With Us

  Prepare to die. His kingdom is near.
  
  Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population…

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  Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

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  Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

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  Living a Feminist Life

  In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of…

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  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectu…

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  The Interpretation of Dreams

  Freud's discovery that the dream is the means by which the unconscious can be explored is undoubtedly the most revolutionary step forward in the entire history of psychology. Dreams, according to his …

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  The Story of My Life

  When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-wi…

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  Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

  Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the …

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  Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

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  Stone Butch Blues

  A free PDF copy of this book is available at the author's website.
  
  Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up i…

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  Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

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  When We Dead Awaken

  When We Dead Awaken (Norwegian: Når vi døde vågner) is the last play written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Published in December 1899, Ibsen wrote the play between February and November of that…

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  Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake.
  
  Note: For a complete Table of Contents of the included poems, see the 'Questions' section below.
  
  This book appeared i…

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  The Weird and the Eerie

  What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new book, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Ee…

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  The King in Yellow

  For readers who delight in the darker corners of the human experience, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers is a masterful collection of short stories that will transport you to a realm of eerie m…

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  The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

  In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are o…

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  Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

  Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar transla…

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  The Souls of Black Folk

  This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black …

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  Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."
  
  So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of…

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