The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability
By: Nancy L. Eiesland
4.03
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Draws on themes of the disability-rights movement to identify people with disabilities as members o…
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1. Spy Ski School (Spy School #4)
By: Stuart Gibbs
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Ben Ripley enrolls in ski school, where the slopes, and the stakes, get really steep in this follow… read more
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"Just clip the red one," Cyrus told her. "They're all red," Erica informed him. "They are?" Cyrus asked. "Curse those Soviets! Everything always has to be red with them."-Stuart Gibbs, Spy Ski School (Spy School #4)
2. Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
By: John Swinton
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Time is central to all that humans do. Time structures days, provides goals, shapes dreams and limi… read more
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- theology
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- disability
3. A Year of Biblical Womanhood
By: Rachel Held Evans
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embar… read more
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4. The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man
By: Susannah Heschel , Abraham Joshua Heschel , Ilya Schor
4.16
Format: 354 pages,
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabba… read more
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- theology
- philosophy
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5. The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #0.5)
By: Trenton Lee Stewart , Del Roy
3.57
Format: None pages, Audio
Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict has more problems than most children his age. Not only is he an orp… read more
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6. Extraordinary Bodies
By: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
As the first major critical study to examine literary and cultural representations of physical disa… read more
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- disability
- nonfiction
- disability studies
7. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
By: Martin Luther King Jr.
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
209 PAGES. read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
8. Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
By: Kate Bowler
3.80
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of… read more
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"I was immediately worn out by the tyranny of prescriptive joy."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"I failed to love what was present and decided to love what was possible instead."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
"A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first."-Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
9. Spy School Secret Service (Spy School, #5)
By: Stuart Gibbs
3.50
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Ben goes undercover in the White House to take on a SPYDER operative determined to assassinate the … read more
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10. The Bible, Disability and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God
By: Amos Yong
3.99
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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11. Jesus and the Disinherited
By: Vincent Harding , Howard Thurman
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In this classic theological treatise, the acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman … read more
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12. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
13. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
By: Esau McCaulley
4.43
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more
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- christian
- theology
- faith
- religion
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
14. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- disability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
15. Spy School Goes North (Spy School, #11)
By: Stuart Gibbs
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the eleventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley goes on a resc… read more
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16. Spy School British Invasion (Spy School, #7)
By: Stuart Gibbs
4.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all in this … read more
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17. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
By: Alice Wong
4.47
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, oth… read more
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- social justice
- disability
"Just knowing your rights (or your worth or value) will never be enough if you are powerless to force someone else to respect them."-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"The peculiar drama of my life has placed me in a world that by and large thinks it would be better if people like me did not exist. My fight has been for accommodation, the world to me and me to the …"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustice and inequality in the world. While you and I may not have sole responsibility for these inequities, tha…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
"He understood that each individual group’s liberation was inextricably linked to the other—that justice and liberation could only be had if we all stand together and fight for the rights and libertie…"-Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
18. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
By: Uché Blackstock
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more
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19. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
20. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
21. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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22. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.63
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more
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"Anxiety is not a passive predator."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
23. Spy School Goes South (Spy School, #6)
By: Stuart Gibbs
4.52
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Ben is taken to Mexico by his nemesis in the hopes that he’ll finally be able to take down SPYDER i… read more
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24. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By: Judith Heumann
4.48
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more
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- disability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
25. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more
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- disability
- nonfiction
- social justice
- disability studies
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
26. My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
By: Amy Kenny
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Much of the church has forgotten that we worship a disabled God whose wounds survived resurrection,… read more
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27. How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You're Going: Leading in a Liminal Season
By: Susan Beaumont
4.20
Format: 184 pages, ebook
How do you lead an organization stuck between an ending and a new beginning--when the old way of do… read more
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- theology
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
28. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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29. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability
By: Nancy L. Eiesland
4.03
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Draws on themes of the disability-rights movement to identify people with disabilities as members o… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- social justice
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30. Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church
By: Bethany McKinney Fox
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What does healing mean for people with disabilities? The Gospels are filled with accounts of Je… read more
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31. Autism and Worship: A Liturgical Theology
By: Armand Léon van van Ommen
4.78
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
In churches today, those on the autism spectrum are often at best overlooked by neurotypical church… read more
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