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The stolen light (Continents of exile. #6.)
By Ved Mehta. 1989
This volume of Ved Mehta's ambitious project to document his own life story deals with the author's experiences at college,…
and his young and illuminating adulthood in California. Ved, who set out to prove himself as a blind student among the sighted, refused to acknowledge gloomy predictions for his future made by `specialists'. Ved Mehta manages at least in part, to reconcile the conflicting forces of the Indian and American, sighted and unsighted worlds. Sequel to "Sound-shadows of the new world" (DC28717). 1989. (Continents of exile ; 6)The music of silence
By Andrea Bocelli, Stanislao Pugliese. 2000
Andrea Bocelli is one of the world's most successful male singers, selling 20 million recordings world-wide. He has become the…
popular face of classical music. Yet behind his extraordinary success lies a story of personal triumph. Andrea Bocelli was blinded at the age of twelve. Undeterred, he continued to pursue his childhood dream to sing, using Braille musical scores and lyric sheets. This is Bocelli's true story, told in his own words for the first time. He talks frankly about his blindness, the importance of his family, his stage fright, and the pressures of international stardom. 2000. Uniform title: Musica del silenzio.The ledge between the streams (Continents of exile. #4.)
By Ved Mehta. 1984
As a blind nine year old, the author once held a hand in each of two, very different streams: a…
symbolic experience which he has carried with him all his life. He writes of his adolescent years between 1940 and 1949 and of how he became aware of the disparate currents flowing through his own life and that of his country. Sequel to "Vedi" (DC28720). 1984. (Continents of exile ; 4)The inheritance of shame: a memoir
By Peter Gajdics. 2017
Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to “cure” him of his…
homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents’ tormented past--his mother’s incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father’s upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary--Gajdics explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. 2017.The island
By Robert Russell. 1973
A heart-warming adventure by an English professor, blind since five. In love with the St. Lawrence River, he buys a…
house on Hay Island near Ontario and tells of his own and his family's efforts to make the home livable. It is a unique account which shows the blind author hearing, smelling, and feeling the St. Lawrence, pursuing fishing, boating, and handiwork in spite of his blindness. Some strong language. 1973.Ike's mystery man: the secret lives of Robert Cutler
By Peter Shinkle. 2018
This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages…
of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our understanding of the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House. 2018.In search of pure lust: a memoir
By Lise Weil. 2018
When Lise Weil came out in 1976, lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a…
culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. But after fifteen years of torrid but ultimately failed relationships, Weil had to admit that desire was also a conduit for childhood wounds--and it tended to trump love, over and over again. When a friend invited her to attend a Zen retreat in the mid-'80s, she was desperate enough to say yes. Her first day of sitting zazen was mostly hell--but, smitten with the (female) roshi, she stuck with it. Ultimately, the dive into Zen practice became a turning point in her quest for love. 2018.Jimmy Neurosis: a memoir
By James Oseland. 2019
Before James Oseland was a judge on Top Chef Masters, he was a teenage rebel growing up in the California…
suburbs. Diving headfirst into the churning mayhem of punk, he renamed himself Jimmy Neurosis and journeyed into a vibrant underground world of visionary musicians and artists. With humor and verve, Oseland brings to life the effervescent cocktail of music, art, drugs, and sexual adventure that characterized the end of the seventies. Through his account of how creativity saved his life, he tells a thrilling and uniquely American coming-of-age story. 2019.You don't have to be blind to see
By Jim Stovall. 1996
The author, blind before the age of thirty as a result of juvenile macular degeneration, encourages others to achieve through…
their dreams. Using examples from his own life, Stovall suggests that people can succeed by changing the way they think. He recommends that once a path is decided, people should find mentors to help them along the way. c1996.Louis Braille, l'enfant de la nuit
By Margaret Davidson. 1990
Voici l'histoire d'un petit garçon aveugle qui, à l'âge de douze ans, se jura de trouver le moyen de lire…
tout ce que ses yeux inutiles ne pouvaient déchiffrer. Années 3-6. 1999.Cécité-nécessité
By Pierre De Michelaine. 1985
Témoignage de Pierre de Michelaine. Il nous raconte dans quelles circonstances il a perdu la vue. Et surtout il nous…
parle des milieux hospitaliers, en particulier du corps médical, qu'il accuse de se faire le seul dépositaire du savoir et de vouloir dominer les patients par son autorité. 1985.On verra bien (Vivre autrement ; #2)
By Roland Roux. 1982
Un homme dans la quarantaine, devenu aveugle à la suite d'un accident de chasse, raconte comment il a réussi sa…
réintégration dans la vie familiale, sociale, professionnelle et culturelle. Orientation chrétienne. Annexes centrées sur l'aspect médical de la cécité. 1982.Ivy remembers
By Ivy Ainsworth. 2009
Ivy Ainsworth is a blind eighty-six year old Plymouthian woman who has lived through the war and the austerity that…
followed. This is a story of everyday life with its joys and its tragedy. 2009.Music will out: the autobiography of Norman Silcock
By Norman Silcock. 1997
Norman Silcock, born blind in 1915 in Yorkshire, studied at the School for the Blind. He taught at the Royal…
Normal College. He is known as a composer, notably of anthems, and as an organist. 1997.Dark days: recollections of two blind boys in wartime Guernsey
By Neville Tostevin. 1995
The text is an account of the feelings, thoughts and experiences of Neville and Michael during the 1930s and throughout…
the Occupation. It offers a new perspective of the life and times in Guernsey over 50 years ago. It also documents the early history of Blind Welfare in Guernsey. 1995.Blindness and beyond: a memoir
By Monique Raffray. 2004
Eyes at my feet
By Jessie Hickford. 1973
The author thought life had come to an end when she lost her sight at the age of fifty. Then…
she met Prudence, her guide dog, and life once again became full and happy. 1973.Blind to misfortune: a story of great courage in the face of adversity
By Bill Griffiths, Hugh Popham. 1989
Bill Griffiths lost both hands and both eyes when he was a prisoner of the Japanese in Java in 1942.…
Here he relates the story of how he overcame his tragedy, helped by the care and devotion of his wife, Alice. 1989.Keep in touch
By Graeme Edwards. 1942
As I see it
By Judy Taylor. 1989
Determined not to let her blindness prevent her living life to the full, and assured of her independence by her…
devoted guide dogs, Judy Taylor trained as a teacher and successfully taught sighted children in local secondary schools. She married and raised two sons. In 1987, an operation restored 25 per cent of normal vision, and she saw her husband and sons for the first time. 1989.