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Language
English
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Lady Emily Marlowe is beautiful, independent, and unspoiled. Deaf since childhood, she appreciates her family's efforts to nurture her spirit, but the man they've chosen for her betrothal can never fulfill her. The only one Emily has ever desired is bold and reckless Lord Ashley Kendrick. Her childhood amour inspired her fantasies and vowed never to forget her -- even as he left her for a new life in India and a new love. Seven years and countless...
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
If you could make your deaf child hear, would you? Sound and fury is the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Together they confront a technological device that can help the deaf to hear but may also threaten deaf culture, and their bonds with each other.
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 3
Language
English
Description
An accident leaves Jolene Yoder deaf and rebuilding her life as a teacher to deaf children in her hometown. Ella Miller, Jolene's cousin, worries Jolene will have her heart broken by Jake Beechy, but Jake has his heart set on someone else.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear, and having a deaf child is not analogous to having a hearing child who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, deaf children are far more diverse than their hearing age-mates. A lack of access to language, limited incidental learning and social interactions, as well as the possibility of secondary disabilities, mean that deaf children face a variety of challenges in language,...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her feelings change over time?
12) A touch of Grace
Author
Series
Daughters of Blessing volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life in Blessing, North Dakota, becomes difficult when courageous and gentle Grace Knutson is presented with an agonizing dilema.
Publisher
Two Little Hands
Language
English
Description
From their magical, animated world, Alex (who can hear) and Leah (who is deaf) invite infants and children to "come sign with us!" Watch and enjoy as Alex, Leah and their friends of varying ages share American Sign Language (ASL) with your child in a fun and playful way.
15) Amy
Series
Publisher
On-Demand
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A poignant and inspiring drama about a young woman who flees her wealthy but domineering husband to take a job as a teacher in a rural school for the deaf. As Amy enters this world without sound, she teaches the deaf children to speak. And in return, they teach her to love.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Myron Uhlberg was born the hearing son of deaf parents at a time when American Sign Language was not well established and deaf people were often dismissed as being unintelligent. In this young reader adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Hands of My Father, Uhlberg recalls the daily difficulties and hidden joys of growing up as the intermediary between his parents' silent world and the world of the hearing."--Amazon.
Publisher
Simitar
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
19) Hide and seek
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Series
Language
English
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At the center of this 1854 work, a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known only as Madonna?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...
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