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1) Blindness
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her chargesamong them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tearsthrough the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as...
Author
Series
Inheritance trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
After a band of killers begins murdering godlings, blind artist Oree Shoth wonders if her recent guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in danger.
3) Night watch
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses (honed during her years in the dark), combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds...
7) The cay
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Language
English
Description
After the Germans torpedo the freighter on which he and his mother are traveling, Phillip must depend on an old West Indian, Timothy, for survival.
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
After writing a story in Amish country, New York journalist Philip Bradley returns to Lancaster County haunted by the memory of a soft-spoken widow he met there, but winning her heart is just the first step in long journey that will require him surrendering his own culture.
11) Scent of a woman
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A college student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
12) The dead secret
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Having previously tried my hand at short serial stories (collected and reprinted in After Dark, and The Queen of Hearts), I ventured on my first attempt, in this book, to produce a sustained work of fiction, intended for periodical publication during many successive weeks. The experiment proved successful both in this country and in America. Two of the characters which appear in these pages -- "Rosamond," and "Uncle Joseph" -- had the good fortune...
13) At first sight
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p1999.
Language
English
Description
Film about a blind man recovering sight, based on a true story.
14) Things not seen
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
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Series
Publisher
Mirror Press, LLC
Language
English
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Description
For nearly a year, Tavish O'Connor has carried the crushing weight of his family's future on his shoulders. He has taken on the care of his youngest brother, Finbarr, who lost his eyesight in a terrible accident. As a tutor to the newly blind, Cecily Attwater has dedicated her life to helping others overcome the obstacles she herself has conquered. Her new assignment in a remote corner of Wyoming proves trickier than usual: Finbarr refuses to learn....
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Language
English
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Description
Dick Heldar is a war correspondent & an artist, known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist & encounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. They fall in love. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of blindness, incurable--the result of a head wound he took during the war. As his...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a visit to the first school for the blind in Tibet, the author investigates the cultural history of blindness, revealing the oppression experienced by the sightless around the world as well as their resilience, integrity, strength, and ingenuity.
20) Proof
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A game of power between a blind photographer, his possessive housekeeper and a new friend.
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