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The girls
By Lori Lansens. 2006
Conjoined twins Rose and Ruby Darlen, born in the midst of a tornado and abandoned by their mother, are raised…
by Aunt Lovey, who refuses to see them as deformed. At age 29, Rose, the more verbal and bookish twin, begins writing their story. Rose shares her darkest memory and her deepest regret, while Ruby, the prettier, more practical twin, offers critical details, such as what prompted Rose to write their life story. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2006.The Finn bequest
By Kim Cheshire. 1978
The discovery of flight (Inanna young feminist series)
By Susan Glickman. 2018
Sixteen-year-old Libby is disabled by cerebral palsy. She writes a fantasy novel called The Discovery of Flight as a present…
for her sister Sophie's thirteenth birthday, in which Libby takes the form of a hawk telepathically linked to a girl who resembles Sophie. Interwoven with Libby's novel is Sophie's diary, in which she discusses the deteriorating condition of her older sister. 2018.The Honk and Holler opening soon
By Billie Letts. 1998
Caney Paxton, a Vietnam vet who has lost the use of his legs, runs a small roadside cafe in Sequoyah,…
Oklahoma. The regulars at the Honk and Holler are surprised when Caney hires first a Native American waitress and later a Vietnamese cook. The two newcomers soon bring life to the cafe's humdrum routine. 1998.The heart is a lonely hunter
By Carson McCullers. 1967
John Singer, a deaf-mute whose only friend has been committed to an insane asylum, is forced to listen and not…
"talk." He becomes the confidant of several people, but they do not recognize his problems.The Gunners: a novel
By Rebecca Kauffman. 2018
The custodian of paradise
By Wayne Johnston. 2006
Sheilagh Fielding - a striking, unconventional, six-foot-three Newfoundland columnist - has holed up on the island of Loreburn after her…
mother dies. There, Fielding senses the presence of her mysterious "Provider," who has shadowed her all her life and whom she has never met face-to-face. As Fielding tells her life story and keeps her secrets, her Provider draws closer. Sequel to "The colony of unrequited dreams" (DC17664). 2006.The butterfly ward
By Margaret Gibson. 1976
Collection of compassionate short stories by an award-winning Canadian writer. Delves into the personalities of those who are considered "insane"…
by those of us who consider ourselves "normal." Gibson attempts to show that one person's so-called madness us another person's reality. Some strong language. 1976.The birds on the trees
By Nina Bawden. 1971
Seeing red
By Lina Meruane, Megan McDowell. 2016
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.Star gazing
By Linda Gillard. 2008
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.Solomons seal
By Hammond Innes. 1980
With the once-great family fortune dwindling, Perenna Holland feels that she must sell their house on the English seacoast to…
provide for her paralyzed brother Tim's care. When an inventory turns up an album of curious old stamps among Tim's possession, an estate agent pursues the background of the stamps and unravels an age-old dark secret. 1980.Poppy Shakespeare
By Clare Allan. 2006
Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a day hospital in North London. N has been a patient here for thirteen years;…
day after day N sits smoking in the common room, swapping medication and comparing MAD money rates. Like all the patients at the Dorothy Fish, N's chief ambition is never to be discharged, until Poppy Shakespeare turns up and things begin to change. Strong language. 2006.Murder in Grub Street (A sir John Fielding Mystery Ser.)
By Bruce Alexander. 1995
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.Mantis dreams: The Journal Of Dr. Dexter Ripley
By Adam Pottle. 2013
A wheelchair user living voluntarily in a care home, Dexter Ripley lashes out at all those around him - his…
behaviour so outrageous yet insightful that Ripley is curiously both repelling and fascinating. With a boisterous, propulsive voice, Ripley shares his insights on life as a care home resident, his relationships with his sister and her son, his career as a professor, and, despite his bitter nature, his goal of creating a philosophy based on positivity and imagination. Through the voice of this embittered man, the author creates a treatise that views disability as a philosophical position rather than a physical or mental condition. 2013.Blindness: a novel
By José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero. 1997
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.Deaf sentence
By David Lodge. 2008
When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not…
enjoying it. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort and househusband. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss. 2008.Invisible man at the window
By Matt Cohen, Monique Proulx. 1994
Max is a paraplegic painter, fascinated by beauty and form, disharmony, and the surface of appearances. A careful observer of…
humanity, he constructs a meticulous reality for himself, until the re-appearance of his former girlfriend begins to break down his world. Strong language. 1993. Uniform title: Homme invisible à la fenêtre.In the land of birdfishes
By Rebecca Silver Slayter. 2013
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.Illuminations: a novel
By Tamás Aczél. 1981
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.