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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Sally, blind as a result of an accident, lives a sheltered life with her grandparents, until Jamie Finn from America arrives, and everything seems suddenly to change. 1978.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Mikey Callahan is a thirty-year-old suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connections--even his emotional life is a blur. 2018.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer…
despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. For junior high readers. 2001.
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Adventure stories, Blind and visually impaired fiction, General fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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Mary may not be able to see properly, but she's determined to go to the sweet shop alone. Her adventure…
turns into a nightmare as she gets caught up in a robbery, and finds herself the victim of a desperate kidnap. Mary must use all her ingenuity and courage if she is to escape unharmed from her captors. Grades 3-6. 2001.
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Award winning fiction, Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke,…
leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Winner of the Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz Prize (Mexico), 2012, and of the Anna Seghers Prize (Germany), 2011. 2016. Uniform title: Sangre en el ojo.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.
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Blind and visually impaired fiction, Family stories
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This is a story of six people: Grace Teape, her orphaned niece, Lily, and young lover, sculptor Johnny Cochrane; Grace's…
brother, photographer Oliver Cary, his journalist wife Melissa and blind son, Sebastian. 1995.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Eighth-grader Micah is psyched to have made the BC junior goalball team -- even though he gets the news while…
dealing with a flare-up of his degenerative eye condition. What he's not happy about is his parents' decision to get him a guide dog, and the possibility of losing his independence. When Liam, a new, first-rate player, joins the goalball team, Micah's frustration with his vision spills onto the court. He is rude to Liam and starts a fight with another teammate, Sebastian, after practice. It's only with the help of Cam, his Orientation and Mobility Specialist, that Micah starts to get a handle on his aggression and trust people enough to communicate how he feels. But with the team's big junior tournament quickly approaching, Micah has to reconcile his differences with Liam and Sebastian so as to become a real team player and help his team win the championship. Grades 5-8. 2015.
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Blind and visually impaired fiction, General fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers, School stories
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Ex-cop Finn was left blind by violence, but he can still see the body of his wife, Dani, and a…
crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn learns that an isolated girls' prep school can be every bit as dangerous as city streets when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard during a raging blizzard. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Blind sixteen-year-old Parker Grant navigates friendships and romantic relationships, including a run-in with a boy who previously broke her heart,…
while coping with her father's recent death. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding investigates the murders of a publisher and his family. Although a visiting poet was found…
bloodied at the scene, Fielding enlists the help of his ward, Jeremy Proctor, to search for the truth. A shady Christian organization from America becomes suspect after a synagogue is burned. Sequel to "Blind justice". 1995.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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In 1932 twelve-year-old Bess loses her sight in a sledding accident. Dictating her thoughts to her twin sister, Elin, on…
weekend visits home, Bess keeps a diary describing life at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, where she learns to read braille. Grades 5-8. 2002.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Whenever Lilly tries to help Davy, a kindergartener, she keeps getting into trouble. Davy is small, and he's also blind,…
and he wants to play soccer with the bigger boys but he only wants to play his way. Lilly decides that it's up to her to find a way for everyone to play together, but then Davy insists that he has to score a goal! Grades K-3. 2004. (First Novels ; 29)
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction, Movie and television tie-ins
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Written by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author. Without cause people are suddenly becoming blind. A doctor's wife is spared but…
pretends she is blind to remain with her husband. Quarantined by the government in an abandoned mental hospital, the blinded citizens create a reign of terror. 1997. Uniform title: Ensaio sobre a cegueira.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, a young Indian boy who is blind, begs his grandfather to tell him the story of the night he was born. Grades K-3. c1987.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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In rural Nova Scotia, two sisters witness the suicide of their mother. Their father, sick with grief, blindfolds the children…
to shield them from the misery of the world. Left that way for years, they are each scarred in their own way: Mara is rendered fully blind, and Aileen partly so. When a neighbour discovers their condition, they are immediately separated for treatment, and it isn’t until decades later, after Aileen’s marriage has fallen apart, that she decides to seek out her lost sister. 2013.
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Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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A political philosophical novel about Feldheimer, a middle aged Jewish dentist. Once of Budapest, now of London, he has survived…
the Austro-Hungarian secret police, Nazi death camps and a communist party purge. Blinded after a traffic accident, he travels to Vienna to consult a philosopher/ophthalmologist. During his epic journey he meets many other survivors who recount their stories of horror and death. 1981.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised…
by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's abusive, alcoholic father to sober up but nearly killing Evelyn in the process, Cammie convinces her aunt to send her to the Halifax School for the Blind. Cammie navigates life at her new school, armed with an envelope with her estranged mother's address on it. Unsure if she can trust her new friend, Nessa, Cammie enlists her help in tracking her mother down. Will Cammie finally learn why she was abandoned and be able to start her new life? Or will she find too many secrets to count, and realize that she might never put the past behind her? Sequel to "Flying with a Broken Wing". Grades 4-7. 2017.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Cammie Deveau began life with a few strikes against her. She’s visually impaired, abandoned by her mother at birth, her…
father was a casualty of the Second World War—and if all that isn’t enough, she’s being raised by her bootlegging aunt. No wonder she dreams of starting a brand new life. When Cammie learns about a school for blind and visually impaired children she becomes convinced a new life is waiting for her in Halifax, but how will she ever convince her aunt to let her go? Grades 3-6. 2013.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Disabilities fiction, Blind and visually impaired fiction
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Seeing Eye dog Shakespeare from "Rescue Pup" (DC30998) is about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to…
begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match for Shakespeare. Grades 4-7. 2005.