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By Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in…
music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars? 2008.By Eric Walters. 2003
Winston is suspended from school and keeps running away from home, so his mother sends him to stay with his…
father, a well-known newspaper reporter who's covering the story of Terry Fox and his friend Doug Alward. Winston spends time with Terry and Doug, and their determination to achieve what seems like an impossible goal makes a big impression on him. But can Winston learn enough to deal with an article of his father's that characterizes Terry and Doug in an unflattering way, and with his own problems? Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Grades 5-8. 2003.By David Lodge. 2008
When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not…
enjoying it. His wife Winifred's late-flowering career goes from strength to strength, reducing his role to that of escort and househusband. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on the welfare of his eighty-nine-year-old father. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss. 2008.By Debbie Macomber. 2016
Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, is a dying town. Lindsay Snyder used to visit her grandmother there, and now she has…
become the town's only schoolteacher. As Lindsay comes to know the town and its people, she learns she has a serious disadvantage--she's not a native. Followed by "Dakota home". 2016.By Debbie Macomber. 2016
People have started moving to Buffalo Valley, North Dakota--people like Lindsay Snyder, who came as a teacher and stayed, marrying…
local farmer Gage Sinclair. And now Lindsay's best friend, Maddy Washburn, has decided to pull up stakes and join her in Buffalo Valley, hoping for the same kind of satisfaction. And the same kind of love. Jeb McKenna is a rancher, a solitary man who's learned to endure. Maddy--unafraid and openhearted--is drawn to Jeb, but he rejects her overtures. Until one of North Dakota's deadly storms throws them together. Sequel to "Dakota born"; followed by "Always Dakota". 2016.By Debbie Macomber. 2016
A few years ago, Buffalo Valley in North Dakota was a dying town. Now it's come back to life! People…
are feeling good about living here again--the way they used to. They're feeling confident about the future. Stalled lives are moving forward. People like Margaret Clemens are taking risks on new ventures and on lifelong dreams and happiness. Margaret is a local rancher who's finally getting what she wants most: marriage to cowboy Matt Eilers. Her friends don't think Matt's such a bargain; neither did her father. But Margaret is aware of Matt's reputation and his flaws--she wants him anyway. And she wants his baby. Sequel to "Dakota home". 2016.By Julie Johnston. 1992
Twelve-year-old Keely Connor loves a challenge and is carefree and adventurous in her daily life in 1946 Canada. She faces…
a bigger challenge than she could have ever imagined, however, when her gifted older brother, Patrick, is paralyzed with polio and loses interest in living. Keely takes on the cause of healing Patrick's broken spirit and renewing his zest for life. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 1992.By Rose Bevins. 2004
Gina isn't looking forward to the weekend - instead of spending it at her best friend's house, her mother's friends…
are visiting with their son, Ricky, who's blind. She'll be stuck in the house with him while the adults go to a high school reunion. How is she supposed to act around Ricky when she's never even met a blind person before? Grades 4-7. 2004.By Sylvia McNicoll. 2004
Elizabeth's at it again - she's raising a puppy for the guide dog program. But this time, for sure, she…
won't fall in love. She's too busy, for one thing: it's her first year at high school, she's going to be an aunt, and she's engaged to be married - sort of, maybe, in sixteen years or so, if Scott's still around. Sequel to: "Bringing Up Beauty". For junior and senior high readers. 2004.By Rachna Gilmore. 1995
On holiday with her family, Nobby, short for Zenobia, meets Zilla, who is older than Zenobia but still lots of…
fun. Zilla is developmentally disabled but that doesn't matter to Nobby, because Zilla is a great friend and knows everything about birds and animals. Uncle Chad, however, doesn't seem to like Zilla. When he gets into trouble, will Nobby and Zilla help him out of danger? Grades 4-7. c1995.By Dean R Koontz. 2000
At the age of three, to stop a fast-spreading cancer, Bartholomew Lampion was blinded by eye surgery. Barty grows up…
a prodigy, and at the age of 13, he regains his sight and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him.By E. L Konigsburg. 2000
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech. Only his…
friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened. Grades 5-8. 2000.By Lesley Beake. 1995
Mponyane can't hear or speak. He lives with the Saunderson family and is deeply troubled by the way the family…
is ostracized. He can only feel their unhappiness and fear, and he has to keep his thoughts locked up like a cageful of butterflies. Junior high readers.By W. R Philbrick. 1993
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his…
body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. Junior and Senior High.1993.By Sylvia Plath. 1963
This autobiographical novel traces the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant 19-year-old college student who spends a month in…
New York City as a contest-winning junior editor on a fashion magazine. c1963.By Laura Fay Robbie. 2006
A heart-warming account about laughter, tears, and the importance of facing life's obstacles with courage. A true story about a…
memorable vacation, one big brother who daydreams, an important epiphany, and a hilarious little boy named Chase. 2006.By Victor Hugo. 1996
By Louis Sachar. 2006
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit (from "Holes", BR67316), is turning his life around in Austin,…
Texas, with the encouragement of his ten-year-old neighbour, Ginny, who has cerebral palsy. Then his friend X-Ray comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme, he meets a celebrity teen singer, and life will never be the same. Grades 5-8. 2006.By Kathleen O'Reilly. 2003
Employment in a new locale should help engineer Hilary Sinclair forget about her broken heart. Meeting the firm's security director,…
Ben MacAllister, is certainly a welcome distraction - until he makes her want things she shouldn't. Ben's not a "forever" guy, but could she be his reason to stay? Explicit descriptions of sex. 2003.By Anne Mather. 1995
When Quinn Marriott is asked to track down Julia Stewart he knows he should give the assignment to someone else.…
He knew Julia ten years ago and believes that he is the reason she has tried to disappear. What he doesn't know is that Julia has a ten year old secret she has been keeping from him and if he finds her he'll get the shock of his life.