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The Red Prince: the secret lives of a Habsburg archduke
By Timothy Snyder. 2008
Historian provides an account of the life and exploits of Wilhelm von Habsburg. Discusses his coming of age during World…
War I, his involvement in many international political conflicts, his work as a spy, his love life, and more. 2008Cochise: jefe apache (Grandes personajes en la historia de los Estados Unidos)
By Larissa Phillips, Eida de la Vega. 2004
Life story of the Apache chief who led his people against Spanish, Mexican, and US troops in the 1860s. Many…
of his offensives were carried out in retribution for attacks on his family and his Chiricahuan people. For grades 4-7 and older readers. Spanish language. 2004Colors of the wind: the story of blind artist and champion runner George Mendoza
By J. L Powers, J. L. Powers, George Mendoza, Hayley Morgan-Sanders. 2021
Profiles the life of George Mendoza, an athlete and artist who at the age of fifteen started to lose his…
sight from degenerative eye disease. Mendoza set a world record in the mile for blind runners and competed in the Paralympics. Now a full-time artist, Mendoza's collection of paintings, also titled Colors of the Wind, is a National Smithsonian Affiliates traveling exhibit. For grades K-3. 2014Black, blind, & in charge: a story of visionary leadership and overcoming adversity
By David A Paterson, David Paterson. 2020
The author reflects on accomplishing a career path that led to his appointments as state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor…
of New York. He discusses pushing past people's perceptions of his limitations, the causes he fought for, and his life since leaving office. 2020Blind man's bluff: a memoir
By James Tate Hill. 2021
The author reflects on his experiences as a blind man. In particular, he discloses the tricks he employed for fifteen…
years to trick those around him and pass as sighted. He describes the road to finally embracing a different way of life. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2021Confessions of a Labradiva: another blonde leading the blind
By Mark Carlson, Saffron. 2021
The author recounts his experiences working with Guide Dog Saffron as well as Saffron's early life at Guide Dogs for…
the Blind and in training. He reflects on Saffron's entrance to their family and her many differences from her big brother. Sequel to Confessions of a Guide Dog (DB 75126). 2021Pathway to freedom: how a seeing eye dog retrieved my life (Broken and healed #01)
By Patty L Fletcher. 2020
The author reflects on how her decision to gain independence by getting a guide dog helped her build a new…
life she had never imagined possible. She also discusses how she realized soon after that not all was right in her world. Strong language. 2020Through the dark
By Yolanda Nava. 2021
Emmy Award-winning journalist recounts her journey to self-discovery after an undiagnosed autoimmune disease resulted in blindness. She discusses the challenges…
she's faced, her spiritual awakening, and her growth as an individual. Some strong language. 2019Blind Man Running: a Product of the Ozark Mountains : The story of a blind man's quest for the joy of life
By Michael McIntire, Michael Mcintire. 2006
Michael McIntire was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa when he was in the third grade. In this humorous memoir he relates…
his experiences growing up while gradually losing his sight. Adult. Strong languageSnow blind: recovering after the random shooting : a memoir
By William M Johnson, William M. Johnson. 2021
Bill Johnson spent a good part of his career as a management consultant until a random shooting on a business…
trip changed his life forever. Faced with new challenges in a sightless world, Bill was determined not to let sudden blindness hold him back from living life on his terms. With a positive attitude, determination, and humor, Bill embraced his new life and began putting the pieces back together. Adult. Some strong languageNot by the sword: how a cantor and his family transformed a klansman
By Kathryn Watterson. 2012
Grand Dragon of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Nebraska, Larry Trapp was a wheelchair-bound amputee who…
led a campaign of fear against Jews and other minorities from his cramped apartment in Lincoln. After receiving death threats from Larry, Cantor Michael Weisser and his wife Julie extended friendship to him and later offered to take him into their home. Larry renounced all ties to the Klan, began working with youth groups to educate them about the danger of racist ideology, and, before dying from kidney disease, even converted to Judaism. Adult. Strong languageMerit not sympathy wins: the life and times of Blind Boone
By Mary Collins Barile, Christine Montgomery. 2012
Broken eyes, unbroken spirit: the story of a national blind golf champion
By David Meador. 2010
When a car accident robbed David Meador of his sight as a teenager, he thought his life was destined to…
be one of hardship and struggle. And he wasn't wrong. But, as you will discover, it has also been one of great accomplishment and reward. Broken Eyes, Unbroken Spirit is the inspirational story of one man suddenly faced with nothing but limitations, pain and frustrations, who nonetheless managed to triumph in life by winning golf championships, setting sales records, and beating cancer - twice. This book goes far beyond success. It will show you an entirely new world - one where you have the courage to overcome any of life's challenges - if only you will close your eyes and seeEyes at my feet
By Jessie Hickford. 1973
Louis Braille
By Jean Roblin. 1960
Prince Albert: the man who saved the monarchy
By A. N Wilson, A. N. Wilson, A. N. Wilson. 2019
Queen Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time in British history, but biographer A. N. Wilson makes a…
convincing case that her husband Prince Albert exerted a major influence on the modernization of British society and restoration of the crown's prestige. Adult. UnratedThe country of the blind: A memoir at the end of sight
By Andrew Leland. 2023
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn…
about blindness as a rich culture all its own “ The Country of the Blind is about seeing—but also about marriage and family and the moral and emotional challenge of accommodating the parts of ourselves that scare us. A warm, profound, and unforgettable meditation on how we adjust to new ways of being in the world.” —Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in, such that he now sees the world as if through a narrow tube. Soon—but without knowing exactly when—he will likely have no vision left. Full of apprehension but also dogged curiosity, Leland embarks on a sweeping exploration of the state of being that awaits him: not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, politics, and customs. He negotiates his changing relationships with his wife and son, and with his own sense of self, as he moves from his mainstream, “typical” life to one with a disability. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, The Country of the Blind represents Leland’s determination not to merely survive this transition but to grow from it—to seek out and revel in that which makes blindness enlightening. Thought-provoking and brimming with warmth and humor, The Country of the Blind is a deeply personal and intellectually exhilarating tour of a way of being that most of us have never paused to consider—and from which we have much to learnYoung queens: Three renaissance women and the price of power
By Leah Redmond Chang. 2023
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots—three queens exercising…
power in a world dominated by men. Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de' Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang's Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdomWitness: Stories
By Jamel Brinkley. 2023
What does it mean to really see the world around you—to bear witness? And what does it cost us, both…
to see and not to see? In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters—from children to grandmothers to ghosts—live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect with, stand up for, care for, and remember one another, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape their futures as well as the legacies and prospects of their communities and their city. In its portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief, and the meaning of home, Witness enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust—doctors, employers, siblings—too often turn away, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill, dancing in the street, glimpsing your purpose, change on the horizon. With prose as upendingly beautiful as it is artfully, seamlessly crafted, Jamel Brinkley offers nothing less than the full scope of life and death and change in the great, unending drama of the cityLucky to see at all: one man's journey with visual impairment
By William Bryan Waters. 2014
William Bryan Waters grew up during the Depression in eastern North Carolina and, when he was in his teens, learned…
that he had a hereditary, degenerative disease of the eye called retinitis pigmentosa. This book surprises and delights, however, with tales of the author's youthful escapades as well as insight into education practices. An Epilogue details many accomplishments of William Waters' distinguished career with the Division of Services for the Blind