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A dog called Dez: the true story of how one amazing dog changed his owner's life
By John Tovey, Veronica Clark. 2013
When John Tovey lost his sight at the age of 42, he thought his life was over. He was wrong…
- it was just beginning. John asked for help and, thanks to Guide Dogs for the Blind, was introduced to a bouncy black labrador called Dez. Dez brought colour and light back into John's life and slowly he learned how to live again. 2013.To the left of inspiration: adventures in living with disabilities
By Katherine Schneider. 2006
Millions of North Americans have chronic illnesses or disabilities requiring them to make accommodations in their lives. The author, a…
psychologist who has been blind since birth, hopes to help this adjustment with her own humorous life stories, as well as provide understanding of what life is really like for those with disabilities. 2006.Not fade away: a memoir of senses lost and found
By Rebecca Alexander, Sascha Alper. 2014
Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight…
and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by age 30. Then, at 18, a fall from a window left her athletic body completely shattered. None of us know what we would do in the face of such devastation. What Rebecca did was rise to every challenge she faced. Now, at 35, with only a sliver of sight and significantly deteriorated hearing, she is a psychotherapist with degrees from Columbia University, and an athlete who regularly competes in extreme endurance races. She greets every day as if it were a gift, with boundless energy and a strength of spirit that have led her to places we can only imagine. 2014.Stanford professor Krieger describes adapting to life with progressively limited vision caused by birdshot retinochoroidopathy. She writes of embarking upon…
local and long-distance trips and exploring the southwest desert with her guide dog Teela and her lover Hannah. c2010.Jo Milne had already lived a lifetime surrounded by silence, profoundly deaf from birth, when she began to lose her…
sight. Just before turning 30, Jo was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether. Jo has always been determined to live her life to the full. In 2014 she had cochlear implants fitted allowing her to hear for the first time. Every moment of Jo's days since the operation has become a journey of discovery. 2016.Out of the darkness
By Tina Nash. 2012
Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at ground zero
By Michael Hingson, Susy Flory. 2011
Michael Hingson, an executive who worked in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, recounts his escape after the…
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Hingson, blind since birth, describes what he and his guide dog Roselle experienced as she led him down seventy-eight flights of stairs to safety. 2011.Undaunted by blindness: concise biographies of 400 people who refused to let visual impairment define them
By Clifford E Olstrom. 2010
Director of the Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind presents four hundred capsule biographies of notable blind people in various occupations…
and from different historical periods. Includes profiles of Irish composer Torlogh Carolan (1670-1738), American publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), and Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso (b. 1921). 2010.To love this life: quotations
By Helen Keller. 2000
Quotations from speeches, letters, articles, and interviews by the author, lecturer, and humanitarian who became deaf-blind at nineteen months of…
age. Topics include the senses, faith, women in society, human nature, war and peace, education, happiness, friendship and love, and triumph over adversity. Includes a chronology of Keller's life from 1880 to 1968. 2000.Blind justice: Jacobus tenBroek and the vision of equality
By Floyd W Matson. 2005
Biography of the founder of the National Federation of the Blind, written by friend and collaborator Matson. Tells how tenBroek…
(1911-1968), blinded at age seven, obtained a law degree and became an advocate not only for blind people but for people with disabilities, poor people, and other minority groups. 2005.Finding time for serenity: every woman's book of days
By Barbara Cawthorne Crafton. 2004
Crashing through: the extraordinary true story of the man who dared to see
By Robert Kurson. 2008
Award-winning author profiles Michael May (born 1953), who was blinded at age three and later became a champion skier, CIA…
analyst, and entrepreneur. Relates May's internal conflict over whether to undergo a revolutionary stem-cell procedure and a cornea transplant to restore his sight. 2007.Veterans with a vision: Canada's war blinded in peace and war (Studies in Canadian military history,)
By Serge Marc Durflinger. 2010
A history of Canada's war-blinded veterans and of the organization they founded in 1922, the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of…
War Blinded. Durflinger details the veterans' process of civil re-establishment, physical and psychological rehabilitation, and social and personal coping, and describes their public advocacy for government pension entitlements, job retraining, and other social programs. Captures the spirit of perseverance that permeated the veterans' community, and highlights the impact made by the war blinded as advocates for all Canadian veterans and for all blind citizens. 2010.Her special vision: a biography of Jean Little (Contemporary Canadian biographies)
By Barbara Greenwood, Audrey McKim. 1987
As a young girl, Jean Little was teased by the other children because of her visual impairment. Today, Jean is…
the award-winning author of over a dozen books for children. Grades 5-8. Grade I braille. 1987.Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy : a tribute by the foster-child of her mind
By Helen Keller. 1985
Deaf-blind Helen Keller tells of her early years with Anne Sullivan, the Irish immigrant girl who became her teacher-companion. She…
also describes her years at Radcliffe, Anne's marriage to John Macy, and their work together for the blind. 1985.Things no longer there: a memoir of losing sight and finding vision
By Susan Krieger. 2005
Krieger, a sociologist and writer who is also losing her vision to a rare eye disease, goes bird watching in…
New Mexico, learns to use a white cane, revisits an old love, and returns to the summer camp of her youth, while reflecting on the nature of blindness and sight. She explains that that while outer landscapes may change, the inner visions persist, giving meaning and jarring the senses with a very different picture from what appears before the eyes. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.The windhorse
By Elaine Brook, Julie Donnelly. 1986
Julie Donnelly has been blind since the age of eight - the result of glaucoma. She is a switchboard operator…
in a London bank and travels to and from work with her yellow Labrador guide dog, Bruno, her first release from the prison of blindness. She met Elaine Brook, an experienced mountaineer, and her horizons took another great leap. After learning to climb in this country they began to plan the impossible: the trek, in winter, to the 18,000 foot summit of Kala Patthar. 1986.A new earth: awakening to your life’s purpose
By Eckhart Tolle. 2006
Triumph over darkness: the life of Louis Braille
By Lennard Bickel. 1988
Bickel tells the life of Louis Braille, creator of the code of raised dots which allows the blind to read…
and write. He tells of how Braille was blinded in an accident, and how he began to work on his tactile system of writing. He also describes the difficulties Braille faced in the initial lack of acceptance of the code by those who refused to recognize a system not based on the shapes of the print alphabet. 1988.Yoga vrksa: the tree of yoga
By B K S Iyengar, Daniel Rivers-Moore. 1988
Iyengar offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects, ranging from the place of yoga in our daily lives…
to Patonjolis Yoga Sutras. He includes chapters on yoga and health, childhood, love, death, faith, teachers and teaching. The author argues that yoga is a spiritual path involving a great deal more than physical exercise. Yet this spirituality is deeply rooted in practicality, and all the philosophical concepts covered in the book are related directly and specifically to the practice of yoga postures and breathing. 1988.