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63) Blended
Language
English
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Description
"After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren ... and Jim ... agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again. But when they each separately sign up for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week"--Container.
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Language
English
Description
"A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the strange liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: He's midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from complete sightedness to complete blindness over...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye--forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye,...
Author
Publisher
The Freeman Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"How do you live in a dark world? Travis Freeman has answered that question for twenty years, since the day he lost his sight at 12 years old to a raging illness. Through the years of playing football blind, to living in the glare of the national media spotlight, to serving as an equipment manager for the University of Kentucky football team, to educational and vocational accomplishments, his answer has expanded. Today, Travis knows that his answer...
68) Ray
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as he overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & company
Pub. Date
1913.
Language
English
Description
The hand of the world -- How I became a socialist -- An appeal to reason -- The workers' right -- The modern woman -- An apology for going to college -- To the new college girl -- A letter to an English woman-suffragist -- How to become a writer -- Our duties to the blind -- What the blind can do -- Preventable blindness -- The plain truth -- the truth again -- The conservation of eyesight -- The training of a blind child -- A letter to Mark Twain...
71) All I see is you
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves." --
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2018]
Language
English
Description
"Braille Code School is cool because Kelly, Charlie and Bobby attend this wonderful place where they are learning, adapting and creatively growing in their blind/visually impaired world. They are happy, loving friends who care for one another while overcoming their special needs. They all have their own special gifts which they are ready to share with anyone and everyone who is willing to embrace them. The Braille Code School teaches pride and independence...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones ; 23
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship." --
75) Touch and go
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"To escape an addiction, a young blind man in California steps into a station wagon with his friends and their foster kids to deliver a handmade casket to a dying grandfather in Florida. As they battle their way across the southern half of the nation, this rag-tag American family falls prey to love and lies, greed and violence, crime and Katrina"--P. [4] of cover.
76) Undaunted
Author
Language
English
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Description
Falling in love with her boss's handsome millionaire neighbor was easy for young Emma Copeland. Despite the vast differences between them, and a past that's left Connor Sinclair reclusive and wary, Emma gambles her heart on a desire that rocks them both. But there's something Connor doesn't know: Emma is responsible for an accident that changed his life forever. Connor lives by rules intended to protect both him and his vast wealth. Emma's innocence...
77) Blind
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Ingrid lithe, beautiful, and married to an up-and-coming architect, is a woman contending with the recent loss of vision. While attempting to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days reconstructing the visual world by writing salacious stories that slowly morph into fantasies about her husband and other characters that may or may not actually exist. When real-life crashes into Ingrid's creations, she must finally come to terms with her...
