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Polio Books
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Nemesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as polio)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,587 ratings — published 2010
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as polio)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,434 ratings — published 1996
We Are All Welcome Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as polio)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,891 ratings — published 2006
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as polio)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,104 ratings — published 2005
Chasing Orion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as polio)
avg rating 3.60 — 350 ratings — published 2007
Blue (Ann Fay Honeycutt, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as polio)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,497 ratings — published 2006
The Giant-Slayer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as polio)
avg rating 4.08 — 750 ratings — published 2009
The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as polio)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,043 ratings — published 2018
The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as polio)
avg rating 4.16 — 252 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as polio)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,438 ratings — published 2014
The Circus Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.01 — 25,370 ratings — published 2022
Crossing to Safety (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,727 ratings — published 1987
I'll Watch the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,678 ratings — published 2003
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.27 — 506 ratings — published 2013
To Stand On My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937 (Dear Canada)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.25 — 897 ratings — published 2010
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 3.52 — 334 ratings — published 2006
An American Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as polio)
avg rating 4.08 — 317 ratings — published 2002
The Girl Who Figured It Out: The Inspiring True Story of Wheelchair Athlete Minda Dentler Becoming an Ironman World Champion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.43 — 387 ratings — published
The Woman With the Cure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,543 ratings — published 2023
Jubilee: The First Therapy Horse and an Olympic Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.49 — 123 ratings — published
Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.12 — 25 ratings — published 2013
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.13 — 635 ratings — published 2005
Itzhak: A Boy Who Loved the Violin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.27 — 514 ratings — published 2020
Pixie Pushes On (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.25 — 300 ratings — published 2020
In The Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 4.12 — 59 ratings — published 1996
Odd & True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,539 ratings — published 2017
All the Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.92 — 386 ratings — published 2001
The Master's Muse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.57 — 514 ratings — published 2012
Dark Star of Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.50 — 22 ratings — published 1983
My Last Days as Roy Rogers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.92 — 426 ratings — published 1999
King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as polio)
avg rating 3.94 — 658 ratings — published 2012
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.48 — 7,107 ratings — published 2020
These Empty Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.28 — 168 ratings — published 2026
History's Pages (The Knocknashee Story, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,929 ratings — published
Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.26 — 54 ratings — published 1990
No One Leaves the Manor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published
Jim the Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,514 ratings — published 2000
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.69 — 4,979 ratings — published 2021
The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.97 — 104 ratings — published 2022
The Good Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,019 ratings — published 2019
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung (Vinyl Bound)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,303 ratings — published 1964
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,005 ratings — published 1982
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.08 — 412,912 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,570,004 ratings — published 2003
Curious Dorset (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2004
Die Freundin der Hexe, Band 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 3.43 — 30 ratings — published 2012
Each day a bonus;: Twenty-five courageous years in a wheelchair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as polio)
avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published 1971
“They sat on fold-up beach chairs and were talking about polio. The older ones, like his grandmother, had lived through the city's 1916 epidemic and were lamenting the fact that in the intervening years science had been unable to find a cure for the disease or come up with an idea of how to prevent it. Look at Weequahic, they said, as clean and sanitary as any section in the city, and it's the worst hit. There was talk, somebody said, of keeping the colored cleaning women from coming to the neighborhood for fear that they carried the polio germs up from the slums. Somebody else said that in his estimation the disease was spread by money, by paper money passing from hand to hand. The important thing, he said, was always to wash your hands after you handled paper money or coins. What about the mail, someone else said, you don't think it could be spread by the mail? What are you going to do, somebody retorted, suspend delivering the mail? The whole city would come to a halt.”
― Nemesis
― Nemesis
“She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn’t fly away. All her time was taken up with managing herself, working out new ways to do things. Being a different person in the world.”
― The Golden Age
― The Golden Age
