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Beyond the Shelves: Disability Pride Month Book Picks
Beyond the Shelves: A Podcast from the Des Moines Public Library
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In honor of Disability Pride Month, Jes and Sarah are discussing some of their favorite books that center characters with disabilities. They also discuss the history of Disability Pride Month and the importance of audiobooks.
You can also listen to the podcast on YouTube.
Disability Pride Month Picks:
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert
- Being Heumann, by Judith Huemann
- Golem Girl, by Riva Lehrer
- Seven Days in June, by Tia Williams
- All the Little Bird-Hearts, by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
- True Biz, by Sarah Nović
What Jes and Sarah are reading:
- All Fours, by Miranda July
- Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle
- The Wedding People, by Alison Espach
- Margo's Got Money Troubles, by Rufi Thorpe
- This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- The Book That Broke the World, by Mark Lawrence
- Barons, by Austin Frerick
Book Bulletin
- The first draft of Rebecca Yarro's next book, Black Onyx, is complete
- Ransomware attack at Seattle Public Library - full service is "weeks or even months away"
- Hoopla has started providing content ratings on books and concerns on soft censorship
- Libro FM's 10 best selling audiobooks of all-time
- 2016 Rogowsky study on Audiobooks
- 2019 Neurological Study on Written vs Spoken Word
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