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"On June 10, 2008, Carol Decker walked through the hospital doors a healthy woman with flu-like symptoms and early labor contractions. Three months later, she returned home a blind, triple-amputee struggling to bond with a daughter she would never see. Unshattered recounts Carol's fight for survival against sepsis and its life-shattering complications."
3) Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero
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English
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Discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America's darkest days.
4) Helen Keller
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Series
Language
English
Description
A biography stressing the childhood of the woman who overcame the handicaps of being blind and deaf.
10) Louis Braille
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Series
Publisher
Heinemann Interactive Library
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of the man who invented a special system of raised dots on paper enabling blind people to read.
11) Louis Braille
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Series
Publisher
Bookwright Press
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
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.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own. We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the strange 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 complete sightedness to complete blindness over...