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C'mon Papa: dispatches from a dad in the dark
By Ryan Knighton. 2010
Describes Knighton's voyage through the first year of fatherhood, made more daunting by his blindness. He wonders how he will…
get to know his pre-verbal bundle of coos and burps when he can't see her smile or look into her eyes. Tackling these hurdles with grace and humour, Ryan is determined to do his part as a father, despite the pitfalls. Some strong language. 2010.Cockeyed: a memoir
By Ryan Knighton. 2006
Knighton, who teaches at Capilano College in Vancouver, began losing his sight early enough in life that milestones such as…
his first driving lesson and his first relationships with girls were anything but ordinary. Experiences in adulthood covered (often humorously) in this memoir include attending college in Vancouver, teaching English in South Korea, and getting married. Canada Reads 2012. 2006.Can I give him my eyes?: the inspiring story of a boy blinded in war who found freedom in forgiveness
By Richard Moore, Don Mullan. 2009
Richard Moore was ten years old when he was shot by a British soldier, on his journey past an army…
base on his way home from school. Here Richard Moore lends us his eyes as he shares his story, from his early years growing up on the Catholic working-class Creggan Estate in Derry, the second youngest of a family of twelve children. In it he describes the moment of grace that accompanied the realisation that he would never again see, where he accepted his fate instantly and without bitterness, and tells of wonderful childhood escapades, including 'endless cycles down Malin Gardens' guided by the voices of his friends. 2009.Brighton Beach memoirs
By Neil Simon. 1984
An autobiographical play set in 1937. Eugene, the 15-year-old narrator, dreams of becoming a writer and fulfilling his sexual curiosity.…
Includes strong language and sex. Winner of the 1983 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. 1984.Blood brothers (Methuen Modern Classics Ser.)
By Willy Russell. 2001
Twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them…
away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. Includes strong language. 2001.Blind man's buff
By H. Garland Minton. 1974
Late one evening in February 1966, the author was drinking a cup of tea in Waterloo Station. Suddenly, everything around…
him was enveloped in a veil of mist and, within minutes, he was blind. This is an account of that experience and of his efforts to come to terms with the catastrophe. 1974.Belle moral: a natural history
By Kathleen Gallagher, Ann-Marie MacDonald. 2008
Scotland, 1899. Following her father's death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family's past, which…
her father had kept hidden with the help of the family doctor. A story of family secrets that have come to life and of the birth and evolution of ideas, including Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contemporary medical beliefs and the concept of eugenics. Some descriptions of sex. 2008.Balconville: a play
By David Fennario. 1980
Montreal playwright Fennario presents the lives of people in the poor area of Pointe Saint-Charles. Three families, French and English,…
and Thibeault, the neighbourhood rummy, sit on their balconies and deal with unemployment, an election, and the losing Expos baseball team. Poverty, domestic problems and French-English relations are explored with humour as the characters endure a hot summer in the late 1970's. With French and English dialogue. Strong language.As you like it (Shakespeare, Penguin Ser.)
By William Shakespeare, H. J Oliver. 1968
A pastoral comedy set primarily in the forest of Arden. A duke is exiled by his cruel brother, who later…
banishes his daughter as well. The action switches from the count to the forest where the exiles and friends wander in a maze of romances and mixed identities. For Senior High readers. 1968, c1599.Animal farm (SmartPass)
By George Orwell, Phil Viner, Jools Viner, Jonathan Lomas. 2006
Orwell's political fable is told from the viewpoint of its key characters--the animals--who are quizzed and questioned about how 'some…
animals are more equal than others' in this vibrant guided drama. 2006.Arcadia (Acting Edition)
By Tom Stoppard. 1993
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus…
Hodge. 180 years later Bernard Nightingale has arrived at this house to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park. 1993.And the journey begins
By Cyril Axelrod. 2005
Born deaf and Jewish yet became a Catholic priest; could not walk until he was three yet his work has…
spanned five continents; could not speak until he was nine yet has knowledge of fifteen languages; grew up under apartheid but did pioneering multiracial work; lost his sight but never lost his vision; is now both deaf and blind but that is no barrier to his faith or work. This is a remarkable autobiography of a deaf-blind priest, who was brought up in the Orthodox Jewish faith. 2005.And there was light: The Autobiography Of A Blind Hero In The French Resistance
By Jacques Lusseyran. 1964
With the help of his friends he found that the "cure" for blindness was to "immerse oneself in a life…
that is as real and difficult as the lives of others". With the war Jacques, aged sixteen, decided to organize his school friends into resistance and was eventually betrayed to the Germans, interrogated by the Gestapo and incarcerated for fifteen months in Buchenwald. 1964. Uniform title: Et la lumière fut.An American daughter
By Wendy Wasserstein. 1998
Play featuring Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, senator's daughter, descendant of Ulysses S. Grant, and wife and mother, who has been…
nominated for surgeon general. During a television interview, her husband and a gay friend both contribute information that creates a scandal leading to withdrawal from her position. Includs strong language. c1998.Afghanistan: théâtre
By Véronique-Marie Kaye. 2013
Il y a huit mois, Axelle et Jim, jeune immigrant, ont passé la nuit ensemble. Depuis cette nuit-là, Jim n'a…
pas revu Axelle qui est maintenant enceinte de lui. À une heure de son départ pour la base militaire de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Axelle vient le retrouver à la salle de quilles où il travaille. Tandis que Jim avoue ses sentiments pour elle et tente de la raisonner afin de sauver leur relation, Axelle refuse de se laisser aller et lui annonce qu'elle donnera son bébé en adoption. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. 2013.After Emma
By Sheila Hocken. 1988
Sheila Hocken's clan of chocolate Labradors began with Emma, a guide dog during the author's temporary blindness, and has expanded…
to include a German shorthaired pointer. In this story, she introduces four newcomers. Sheila also reveals her fear that an eye infection may once again threaten her sight. 1988.A woman alone & other plays
By Dario Fo, Franca Rame. 1991
A collection of twenty monologues from the 1997 Nobel Prize-winning playwright and his actress wife. The plays deal with political…
and sexual themes that are often repressed in traditional Italian society, including rape, the double standard, and trophy wives. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 1991.A view from the bridge (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
By Arthur Miller. 1961
Eddie Carbone is an Italian longshoreman working on the New York docks. When his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, seek…
refuge as illegal immigrants from Sicily, Eddie agrees to shelter them. Trouble begins when his wife's niece, Catherine, is attracted to the glamorous younger brother, Rodolpho. Eddie's baffled jealousy culminates in an unforgivable crime against his family and the Sicilian community. 1961.A singular view: the art of seeing with one eye
By Frank B Brady, Ron Hearnden. 1992
A streetcar named Desire
By Tennessee Williams. 2008
In this play, a recently widowed, faded southern belle visits her bohemian sister and lusty brother-in-law in the French Quarter…
of New Orleans. Seeking the lost gentility of her early life, she instead faces a mental breakdown because of the insensitivity of those around her. First published in 1947, c2008.