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  • How to Lose Everything

    A Memoir about Losing My Children, My Leg, My Marriage, and My Voice

    by Christa Couture ...
    Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How to Lose Everything

    A Memoir

    by Christa Couture ...
    Narrated by Christa Couture ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion.From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent death of her second child, the divorce born of grief and ... Read more

    $35.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Owning It

    Our disabled childhoods in our own words

    Illustrated by Sophie Kamlish ...
    by Elle McNicoll, Rebekah Taussig, Nina Tame, M. Leona Godin, Christa Couture, Carly Findlay, Alex Wegman, Daniel Sluman, Ashley Harris Whaley, Jan Grue, Ilya Kaminsky, Imani Barbarin, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, Kendra Winchester, Steven Verdile, Eugene Grant, Sora J. Kasuga, Ali Abbas, Polly Atkin, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard ...
    Growing up disabled can be an isolating experience. As much as you might be surrounded by loving and well-meaning friends and family, chances are no one close to you is going through this alongside you . . . until now!From navigating sports at school, to facing the confusion of getting given free stuff all the time, to juggling hospital trips alongside your social life, this anthology of firsthand ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Owning It

    Our disabled childhoods in our own words

    by Sophie Kamlish, Christa Couture, Alex Wegman1, Ashley Harris Whaley4, Sora J. Kasuga6, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini8, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard0, Rebekah Taussig2, Kendra Winchester4, Carly Findlay6, Nina Tame8, Polly Atkin0, Elle McNicoll2, M. Leona Godin3, Daniel Sluman4, Jan Grue5, Ilya Kaminsky6, Imani Barbarin7, Steven Verdile8, Eugene Grant9, Ali Abbas0 ...
    Narrated by James Catchpole, Lucy Catchpole, Jen Campbell, Christa Couture, Alex Wegman0, Ama Badu2, Ashley Harris Whaley3, Sora J. Kasuga5, Matilda Feyisayo Ibini7, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard9, Rebekah Taussig1, Kendra Winchester3, Carly Findlay5, Nina Tame7, Polly Atkin9, Fawad Afa1 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Growing up disabled can be an isolating experience. As much as you might be surrounded by loving and well-meaning friends and family, chances are no one close to you is going through this alongside you . . . until now!From navigating sports at school, to facing the confusion of getting given free stuff all the time, to juggling hospital trips alongside your social life, this anthology of firsthand ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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