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2) Spit it out
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Jeff's father is intolerant of and rageful towards his son's imperfections, while his mother never discusses her own childhood stutter. As a teenager, Jeff turns to alcohol and drugs to mask his shame, and eventually marries an alcoholic who interacts with the outside world for him. After his wife gets sober, Jeff discovers the stuttering self-help community and embarks on a healing journey of sobriety, self-acceptance and forgiveness.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 2019, John Hendrickson wrote a groundbreaking story for The Atlantic about Joe Biden’s decades-long journey with stuttering, as well as his own. The article went viral, reaching readers around the world and altering the course of Hendrickson’s life. Overnight, he was forced to publicly confront an element of himself that still caused him great pain. He soon learned he wasn’t alone with his feelings: strangers who stutter began...
5) Sadie
Author
Language
Español
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Formats
Description
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
7) Sadie
Author
Language
English
Description
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
9) Wildoak
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Maggie Stephens's stutter makes school especially hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class or calling attention to herself. So when her unsympathetic father threatens to send her away for so-called 'treatment,' she reluctantly agrees to her mother's intervention plan: a few weeks in the fresh air of Wildoak Forest, visiting a grandfather she hardly knows. It is there, in an extraordinary twist of fate, that she encounters an abandoned...
Author
Publisher
Libros del Zorro Rojo
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edici?n.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Q? ocurre cuando las palabras se quedan atascadas y echan r̕aces den-tro de tu boca cada vez que intentas hablar? Quìz sea necesario un cambio de perspectiva para que las palabras fluyan. Esto es lo que vive el protagonista de Hablo como el ̕ro: "Me despierto cada m?ana con los sonidos de las palabras a mi alrededor. Y no puedo pronunciarlas todas." Un ̕da, su padre lo recoge de la escuela, y juntos ca-minan por la orilla de un ̕ro, desde...
11) Sing no evil
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-something guitarist Aksel stutters when he sings, and the latest reviews say he has the voice of a crow with throat plague. That's not a compliment, even for the avant-garde music his band Perkeros plays. Aksel is having a hard time keeping the band together, stopping his girlfriend from kicking him out, and not getting eaten by his drummer (who happens to be a cranky brown bear). There are also the rival bands that Perkeros find themselves...
12) Paperboy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
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