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Sound-shadows of the New World (Continents of exile. #5.)
By Ved Mehta. 1986
In 1949, 15-year-old Ved went to America to attend the Arkansas School for the Blind. In the three years there…
he fell afoul of two members of staff: the PE teacher who believed only the combative could survive in a sighted world and an Evangelical Baptist musician who told him he was damned because he was a Hindu. Girls too were a problem... but he learnt to get around Little Rock himself by perceiving objects and terrain by means of "sound-shadows". Sequel to "The ledge between the streams" (DC28718). 1986. (Continents of exile ; 5).Smile please: an unfinished autobiography (Twentieth Century Classics Ser.)
By Jean Rhys. 1990
"Smile please" was begun when the author was 86 years old, and left unfinished due to her death three years…
later. This book is a collection of autobiographical vignettes. As a novelist she speaks with originality of the plight of the disaffected, but self-aware; here she reveals the influences that shaped her life, and with perfect recall she returns to the tensions of her childhood on the island of Dominica and to the rebellious uncertainties of her later life in London and Paris. 1990.Slackjaw: You Better Start Learning Braille Now
By Jim Knipfel. 1999
At age twelve, Knipfel's uncle told him he "better start learning braille," but it was years before he knew he…
had retinitis pigmentosa. Then a brain lesion began causing erratic behaviour. With humour and honesty, Knipfel recalls his reluctance to accept his condition and how he has coped. Strong language. 1999.Sixty: a diary of my sixty-first year
By Ian Brown. 2015
"Sixty" is a report from the front, a dispatch from the Maginot Line that divides the middle-aged from the soon…
to be elderly. Ian began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as keeping a running tally on how he survived the year, Ian explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. "What pleasures are gone forever? Which ones, if any, are left? What did Beethoven, or Schubert, or Jagger, or Henry Moore, or Lucien Freud do after they turned sixty?" And most importantly, "How much life can you live in the fourth quarter, not knowing when the game might end?" Bestseller. 2015.At twenty-one Maya Angelou's life has a double focus - music and her son. Working in a record store at…
the start of this third volume of autobiography, she is on the edge of new worlds: marriage, show business and, in 1954, a triumphant tour of Europe and North Africa as a feature dancer with "Porgy and Bess". Sequel to “Gather together in my name”, followed by “The heart of a woman“. 1985.Sinc, Betty, and the morning man: the story of CFRB
By Donald Lamont Jack. 1977
Simply speaking: how to communicate your ideas with style, substance, and clarity
By Peggy Noonan. 1998
A former speech writer for U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush offers "advice and anecdotes about the writing and…
giving of speeches." Exhorts both veteran and novice speakers to organize their message using logic, sincerity, humour, and short sentences, while keeping the speech under twenty minutes. c1998.Signing on: the birth of radio in Canada
By Bill McNeil, Morris Wolfe. 1982
Silk parachute: Essays
By John McPhee. 2010
Sight unseen
By Georgina Kleege. 1999
Kleege was diagnosed with macular degeneration at the age of eleven and learned coping mechanisms. In eight essays she describes…
her experiences as well as the cultural aspects of blindness in language, film, and literature. As an author and professor, Kleege outlines the reading process and her delight in learning braille later in life. 1999.Shelley: the pursuit
By Richard Holmes. 2005
Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany…
in 1822, a brief life packed with love affairs, alarums and excursions. This biography offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. 2005, c1994.Shadowlands: the story of C S Lewis and Joy Davidman (Hodder Christian paperbacks)
By Brian Sibley. 1985
The unique private story of C.S. Lewis's love for Joy Davidman, in whom he truly found love and was drawn…
out of his shell. But his happiness was short-lived as she died months after they were married. Brian Sibley looks at Lewis's childhood, his literary legacy and shows how, despite grievous doubts, Lewis's Christian faith shone through. 1985.Shakespeare: the world as stage (Eminent lives series)
By Bill Bryson. 2007
The author documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American…
who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunker-like room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. 2007.Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
By Rosemary Sullivan. 1995
Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto…
poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Second sight: the true story of Britain's most remarkable medium
By Sharon Neill. 2007
Born prematurely and blinded by the oxygen in her incubator, it was clear that Sharon Neill would lead anything but…
a conventional life. In her autobiography, Sharon describes her journey to become one of the most revered mediums in the psychic world. 2007.Second sight
By Robert V Hine. 1993
As a young man, Hine was informed that his eye condition, uveitis, would eventually lead to blindness. After graduate school…
and marriage, and well into his career as a history professor, Hine did gradually lose his sight to cataracts, which the uveitis made inoperable. Hine used braille, talking computers, and readers to continue teaching and writing for the next fifteen years, and then underwent an operation that restored sight in one eye. c1993.Seems like yesterday
By Art Buchwald, Ann Buchwald. 1980
Her and his versions of love in Paris, a romantic lark that, despite misgivings and misadventures, led to a secure…
and happy marriage. At first, religion appeared to be a stumbling block in this union between a Catholic and a Jew with very different backgrounds, but these recollections describe a charmed life. 1980.Self-healing: my life and vision (Arkana Ser.)
By Meir Schneider. 1989
A remarkable Russian Israeli who has gone some way to understanding the latent power of self-healing which is locked inside…
human beings. In this book Meir Schneider relates the experiences of his own life and his later work with people affected by chronic headaches, polio and muscular dystrophy. Meir was born blind, the son of a deaf father, yet he has insisted upon living a regular life making no concessions to himself for his lack of sight, and offering hope to others. 1989.Sean
By Eileen O'Casey, J. C. John Courtney Trewin. 1971
When Eileen O'Casey read "Juno and the Paycock" in 1926, she was so overwhelmed by its tragi-comedy that she returned…
to England to meet its author. That meeting was the beginning of a 37-year love affair that endured celebrity and sorrow, through happy and hard-up days until O'Casey's death in 1964. Eileen's portrait compliments the bitter passion of the plays and offers a further dimension to O'Casey's own autobiographies. 1971.See it my way
By Peter White. 1999
Unsentimental and humorous autobiography by the BBC's disability affairs correspondent, the second blind son born to sighted parents. The text…
covers Peter White's childhood, his experiences at special schools, the shock of `real life' - of the problems of coping with seemingly ordinary, everyday living away from home or a special school, his career with the BBC, marriage and parenthood, his love of sport, his occasional rage at the attitudes of `normal' people, and his sometimes volatile relationship with his father. 1999.