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3) Soundless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"A fantasy adventure steeped in Chinese folklore about a teenage girl named Fei. When her village is suddenly in danger, Fei finds herself on a journey from the peak of her jagged mountain village to the valley of Beiguo, where a startling truth and an unlikely romance will change her life forever"--
For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village, where rocky terrain and frequent avalanches prevent residents from self-sustaining....
4) Blindness
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
7) Blindness
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1980
Description
Discusses blindness and how those afflicted by it overcome this handicap.
8) Blind spots
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Blind Spots is a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes. Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark...
Author
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...
10) Blind
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Five years after best-selling novelist Bill Oakland loses both his wife and his sight in a terrible car crash, socialite Suzanne Dutchman is forced to read to Bill in an intimate room as a plea bargain for being associated with her husband's insider trading. As their sessions evolve, a passionate affair ensues, forcing them both to question whether it's ever too late to find true love.
11) Bird box
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go,...
12) Hindsight
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses--honed during her years in the dark--and keen deductive abilities. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar:...
13) Apple of my eye
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Bailey is a talented young teenager who tragically loses her sight in a horse riding accident. Her devoted parents, Caroline and Jason do everything possible to help her adjust, but she's unable to connect to anyone or anything. That is, until she meets Charlie, a Guide Dog Trainer who introduces her to Apple, an affectionate miniature horse, who becomes her new eyes, and new best friend, in this inspiration film for the whole family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster, Jr
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Polly and Her Duck Costume tells the true story of Polly, a little blind goat who was rescued by Leanne Lauricella, rescuer of farmyard animals and founder of the immensely popular Instagram account The Goats of Anarchy. Polly has some trouble adapting to her new life until her new mom gives her a warm and fuzzy duck costume, which turns out to be the perfect fit! Follow along with Polly as she finds love with her new family, gains confidence, and...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Press, a stockbroker going blind, has lost his job and his wife and is holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general ne'er-do-wells. Solace and purpose come from the unlikeliest sources as he learns to navigate his new landscape without sight"--
16) Second sight 2
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Three episodes from the television series about D.C.I. Ross Tanner who is desperate to conceal the fact that he's losing his vision. In "Hide and Seek", Tanner is working on the two-year-old murder of a famous violinist in which the only one who may know who killed her is the victim's nine-year-old son. In "Parasomnia", Tanner is investigating a murder in which the murderer claims to have been sleepwalking. In Kingdom of the blind, Tanner is caught...
Author
Series
Ada Lace adventure volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Eight-year-old Ada Lace is determined to win the robot-building competition but is struggling with her art class so she soon wonders if there might be a way to use both science and art to solve her problems.
18) Blink of an eye
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 8
Formats
Description
"Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful -- able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a deadly foe. This time Kendra gets assistance from recurring...
20) At first sight
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Amy's blind masseur Virgil becomes her new boyfriend. When a miraculous operation retores Virgil's sight, the two discover that even the most wonderful of life's gifts can come with a price and that both of them must now look at the world in a whole new light.
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