The Book Company: New Products - People with Disabilities

Pokerworld (At the Table with Cheats and Saints)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:26:28 +0000

A riveting insider’s journey through the unusual and ruthless world of high-stakes poker—where every hand is a lesson in how to think, risk, and survive under pressure.

Poker is more than cards, chips, and million-dollar pots. At its highest levels, it is a..

Price: $28.00

Holding the Moon (Grace in Disability-A Memoir)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:07:37 +0000

For fans of Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones, a memoir about a woman paralyzed at seventeen who spends four decades unlearning the “disease to please” that’s been quietly running her life—and finding her way, at last, to forgiveness.

At seventeen, Elizabeth Fetter f..

Price: $18.99

I Am Not Achilles (A Memoir)

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:26:39 +0000

A searing memoir about what it means to live in a body that is always being evaluated, by ourselves and others—and the impossible quest for normality

Emil Sands grew up learning to manage a body that is deemed unruly. Born with cerebral palsy, he is taught—by doctors, his pare..

Price: $28.00

What Now? (Finding Strength in Our Invisible Wounds)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:38:11 +0000

A disabled entrepreneur finds strength in the invisible wounds we all carry, using the lessons from successful people who have overcome their own grief, trauma, guilt, and shame to thrive—not despite their wounds but because of them.

As a young boy, Jamie Diaferia decided n..

Price: $28.99

Duct Tape and Determination (A True Story of Turning Devastation into Grit)

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:58:44 +0000

"Duct Tape and Determination is the unexpected story of Jacky Hunt-Broersma, who is forced to find courage and determination, inviting the reader to do as she does: Just keep going. A truly inspiring read for striving under any passion or craft." —DEENA KASTOR, Olympic medalist and New York..

Price: $18.99

Dear Blind Lady (Disability Advice You Didn't Know You Needed)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:08:23 +0000

An unfiltered disability advice book answering the awkward, honest, and often complicated questions disabled and nondisabled people encounter in everyday life.

In Dear Blind Lady, Deafblind author and disability rights activist Elsa Sjunneson delivers candid, funny, and practi..
Price: $19.99

See Us, Know Us (Profiles of Disability)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:15:25 +0000

“Compelling, intimate vignettes of individuals living with disabilities.”— Publishers Weekly Booklife Reviews, Editor’s Pick
“An illuminating collection of photographs and essays. … See Us, Know UsPrice: $39.95

Silence Is My Habitat (Wonder, Wildness, and the Art of Attention)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:42:37 +0000

In poetic essays, Jessica White reveals how deafness sharpens her perception and deeply attunes her to her landscape, community, and self.
"Where a biography recounts a human life, an ecobiography shows how that life has been shaped by its ecosystem," Jessica White says. Deaf since..
Price: $20.00

How Will They Know If I'm Dead? (Transcending Disability and Terminal Illness)

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:13:19 +0000

Most books on terminal illness focus on death and dying. This book is about neither. It doesn't deal with statistics or the medical aspects of a crippling disease, and it isn't written by a celebrity about their amazing recovery. This book is about a real person and a true hero.
Price: $140.99

Reconstructing Identity After Brain Injury (A Search for Hope and Optimism After Maxillofacial and Neurosurgery)

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:29:38 +0000

Reconstructing Identity After Brain Injury tells the remarkable story of Stijn Geerinck and his journey from road traffic accident to recovery. After he was hit by a drunk driver whilst cycling, Stijn suffered a traumatic brain injury and had to undergo drastic maxillofacial and neuros..
Price: $233.99