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1) Night watch
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses (honed during her years in the dark), combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds...
2) Undaunted
Author
Language
English
Description
Falling in love with her boss's handsome millionaire neighbor was easy for young Kate Martin. Despite the vast differences between them, and a past that's left Garrett Carlton reclusive and wary, Kate gambles her heart on a desire that rocks them both. But there's something Garrett doesn't know: Kate is responsible for an accident that changed his life forever.
Author
Series
Elmwood Springs volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Captures the humorous and complex realities of ordinary people living in Elmwood Springs, Missouri, including Neighbor Dorothy, a radio hostess, her son Bobby, the Oatman Family gospel singers, and hotshot salesman Hamm Sparks.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Using carefully honed sensory skills gleaned from a childhood spent blind to solve cases, music therapist Kendra Michael is tapped by former FBI agent Adam Kyle, who is investigating the work of a serial killer who may be responsible for the disappearance of Kendra's ex.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing used throughout the world by the blind.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A profile of Michael May, a man blinded by a chemical explosion at the age of three, describes his life as a CIA analyst, champion skier, entrepreneur, and family man, who is offered a rare chance to see once again through stem-cell transplant surgery.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[c1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
unp col illus
Language
English
Description
In 1845, Cobtown's Christmas is affected by the failure of the organ at the party being given to feed the residents' pets and by the arrival of a mysterious blind man who does not speak English
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of the blind pianist who toured the country after the Civil War, bringing ragtime and other African American music to the concert stage.
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventure volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
381 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c. 1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. of print col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he just about gives up trying to find the right birthday gift for Toot in Pip's Pet Shop, Puddle needs to look no further because the special present finds him.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The author describes how in seventy-two hours she went completely blind, could not walk, and lost her sense of touch, but also how the recovery from that experience changed her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...