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Blindness: a novel
Par José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero. 1997
Written by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author. Without cause people are suddenly becoming blind. A doctor's wife is spared but…
pretends she is blind to remain with her husband. Quarantined by the government in an abandoned mental hospital, the blinded citizens create a reign of terror. 1997. Uniform title: Ensaio sobre a cegueira.Knots on a counting rope (Series C Ser.)
Par John Archambault, Bill Martin. 1987
Deaf sentence
Par 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.Death of a cad (Hamish Macbeth mystery. #2.)
Par M. C Beaton. 2008
When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiance home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted -- save perhaps for…
love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain Bartlett, is murdered on a grouse hunt. Sequel to "Death of a gossip". 2008.Death of a gossip (Hamish Macbeth mystery. #1)
Par M C Beaton. 2008
When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling…
feathers - or should that be fins? - of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue is Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth, yet not even Hamish thinks someone would seriously want to silence Lady Jane's shrill voice permanently - until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Followed by "Death of a cad". 2008.Jamais je ne t'ai promis un jardin de roses
Par Hannah Green, Eudes de Saint-Simon. 1978
La démarche et la lutte intérieure d'une jeune fille de 16 ans, internée pour schizophrénie. Saura-t-elle se libérer des griffes…
du mal? 1978. Titre uniforme: I never promised you a rose garden.Invisible man at the window
Par Matt Cohen, Monique Proulx. 1994
Max is a paraplegic painter, fascinated by beauty and form, disharmony, and the surface of appearances. A careful observer of…
humanity, he constructs a meticulous reality for himself, until the re-appearance of his former girlfriend begins to break down his world. Strong language. 1993. Uniform title: Homme invisible à la fenêtre.In the land of birdfishes
Par Rebecca Silver Slayter. 2013
In rural Nova Scotia, two sisters witness the suicide of their mother. Their father, sick with grief, blindfolds the children…
to shield them from the misery of the world. Left that way for years, they are each scarred in their own way: Mara is rendered fully blind, and Aileen partly so. When a neighbour discovers their condition, they are immediately separated for treatment, and it isn’t until decades later, after Aileen’s marriage has fallen apart, that she decides to seek out her lost sister. 2013.Illuminations: a novel
Par Tamás Aczél. 1981
A political philosophical novel about Feldheimer, a middle aged Jewish dentist. Once of Budapest, now of London, he has survived…
the Austro-Hungarian secret police, Nazi death camps and a communist party purge. Blinded after a traffic accident, he travels to Vienna to consult a philosopher/ophthalmologist. During his epic journey he meets many other survivors who recount their stories of horror and death. 1981.Cammie takes flight
Par Laura Best. 2017
Eleven-year-old Cammie Turple grew up with more obstacles than most. Visually impaired and abandoned by her parents, she was raised…
by her tenacious, bootlegging aunt in rural Tanner, Nova Scotia. After Cammie and her best friend, Evelyn Merry, destroy the local moonshine still, forcing Evelyn's abusive, alcoholic father to sober up but nearly killing Evelyn in the process, Cammie convinces her aunt to send her to the Halifax School for the Blind. Cammie navigates life at her new school, armed with an envelope with her estranged mother's address on it. Unsure if she can trust her new friend, Nessa, Cammie enlists her help in tracking her mother down. Will Cammie finally learn why she was abandoned and be able to start her new life? Or will she find too many secrets to count, and realize that she might never put the past behind her? Sequel to "Flying with a Broken Wing". Grades 4-7. 2017.Flying with a broken wing
Par Laura Best. 2013
Cammie Deveau began life with a few strikes against her. She’s visually impaired, abandoned by her mother at birth, her…
father was a casualty of the Second World War—and if all that isn’t enough, she’s being raised by her bootlegging aunt. No wonder she dreams of starting a brand new life. When Cammie learns about a school for blind and visually impaired children she becomes convinced a new life is waiting for her in Halifax, but how will she ever convince her aunt to let her go? Grades 3-6. 2013.Forward, Shakespeare! (Orca young readers)
Par Jean Little. 2005
Seeing Eye dog Shakespeare from "Rescue Pup" (DC30998) is about to be matched up with a blind boy, ready to…
begin his working life. Tim is enraged by his blindness and wants nothing to do with a guide dog. But he is no match for Shakespeare. Grades 4-7. 2005.Beauty returns (Beauty Ser.)
Par Sylvia McNicoll. 2006
Liz is irresistibly drawn to Kyle, and Kyle is drawn to Liz - dragged to her, actually, by Beauty Two,…
his guide dog who is so glad to see her old friend that she starts to forget her training. More problems soon get in their way: Kyle's teacher loads him down with work; Liz's parents think she's too young; and Beauty needs correction or she'll be taken away. Sequel to Bringing up Beauty. For junior high readers. 2006.Freddy the detective (Freddy adventure.)
Par Walter R Brooks. 1998
Freddy the pig is so stimulated by reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries that he sets up his own detective bureau. When…
a model train disappears, Freddy gets his first crack at a real mystery. Grades 3-6. 1998.From Anna
Par Jean Little. 1972
When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness…
and apparent inability to do anything right. Followed by "Listen for the singing." Grades 3-6 and older readers. 2012, c1972.Fragile bones: Harrison & Anna (One-2-one. #1)
Par Lorna Schultz Nicholson. 2015
Meet Harrison and Anna. One is a fifteen-year-old boy with an uncanny ability to recite every bone in the skeletal…
system whenever he gets anxious - and that happens a lot. The meaning of "appropriate behaviour" mystifies him: he doesn't understand most people and they certainly don't understand him. The other is a graduating senior with the world at her feet. Joining the Best Buddies club at her school and pairing up with a boy with Aspergers/autism is the perfect addition to her med school applications. Plus, the president of the club is a rather attractive, if mysterious, added bonus. Told in the alternating voices of Harrison and Anna, this is the story of two teens whose lives intertwine in unexpected ways. For junior high readers and older. 2015.Honest money: and other short novels
Par Erle Stanley Gardner. 1991
Happy birthday, Grampie
Par Susan Pearson. 1987
Martha's grandfather is blind and has reverted to speaking his native language of Swedish. When she visits him for his…
89th birthday, she takes him a very special birthday card. Grades K-3. 1987.How late it was, how late
Par James Kelman. 1994
A Glaswegian ex-convict awakens in police custody after a two-day drinking bout to find that he has gone completely blind.…
The novel follows his thoughts over the next few days, and charts his attempts to get a grip on his situation and figure out what to do next. Strong language. Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize. 1994.Hot six: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum novel. #6.)
Par Janet Evanovich. 2000
In this sequel to "High five" (DC21574), bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's mentor, the dangerously appealing Ranger, is the one who…
has skipped bail. Meanwhile, Stephanie is being tailed, her apartment is tossed, her relationship with cop Joe Morelli turns interesting, and her grandmother moves in. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. Followed by "Seven up". 2000. (Stephanie Plum novel ; 6)