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1) Soundless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A fantasy adventure steeped in Chinese folklore about a teenage girl named Fei. When her village is suddenly in danger, Fei finds herself on a journey from the peak of her jagged mountain village to the valley of Beiguo, where a startling truth and an unlikely romance will change her life forever"--
2) Blind spots
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Blind Spots is a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes. Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark...
Author
Series
Chromatacia novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Color Control Agency employee and House of Red member Eddie Russett experiences discontent with his limited vision when he meets Gray Nightseer Jane, who suggests that their color-blind world was brought about by a disaster that nobody is allowed to acknowledge.
4) Blindness
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
1999, ©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to a 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 seven strangers--among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears--through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings...
5) Blindness
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Promise me Forever -- Joy Nielsen is a private nurse and physical therapist who's never been daunted by the challenges of her career. And her latest patient, businessman Sloan Whittaker, isn't going to change that. Confined to a wheelchair after a serious accident, he's lost the will to walk. Joy is determined to make sure he recovers, and once he does, she's prepared to move on to her next patient, no matter how strongly she feels about Sloan. There's...
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime."--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness -- in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience -- that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Author
Series
Brides of Amish country volume 5
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, Rebecca Beachy kept her reasons for rejecting Gideon Troyer's marriage proposal a secret. Then Gideon left their Amish community. Now, Rebecca crafts quilts to raise money to cure her blindness. She's also busy guarding her heart against love. Until Gideon returns, at risk of being shunned, to make the winning bid on one of her exquisite quilts. Will the quilt - a patchwork promise of rediscovered love - bring Gideon and Rebecca back together...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack, an introverted goat, and Charlie, a blind horse, meet at Open Bud Ranch, an animal rehabilitation center, and form an unlikely friendship that grows stronger in the face of adversity.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape. But what Afra has seen is so terrible she has gone blind, and so they must embark on a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece towards an uncertain future in Britain. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken...
Author
Series
Ada Lace adventures volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Ada Lace is determined to win the robot-building competition but is struggling with her art class so she soon wonders if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Documents the inspiring story of a partnership between an American and Nepali doctor to provide eyesight-saving treatments to tens of thousands of patients throughout the world, from cataract-stricken children and blind laborer to elderly patients who live near dangerous mountain trails.
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
They couldn't look outside anymore. Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, and mattresses are nailed over the windows. They are out there. She might let them in. The children sleep in the bedroom across the hall. Soon she will have to wake them. Soon she will have to blindfold them. Today they must leave the house. Today they will risk everything.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Press, a stockbroker going blind, has lost his job and his wife and is holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne'er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest sources as he learns to navigate his new landscape without sight"--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans--
Sonia y sus amigos siembran un jardín, y cada uno contribuye a su manera.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Saylok volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Nursing Ghisia, an orphaned stowaway, with a prophecy surrounding her, back to health, Hod, a blind cave dweller, discovers that they cannot be separated and are both plunged into a desperate world of warring clan chieftains and catastrophic power struggles where they must save each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Illustrated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Kadence! She loves to bake cookies and hang out with friends. She's also partly blind. Kadence is real and so are her experiences. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"-- provided by publisher.
19) Hindsight
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses--honed during her years in the dark--and keen deductive abilities. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar:...
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