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21) At first sight
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1998
Language
English
Description
A man who has been blind since shortly after birth undergoes a surgical procedure that allows him to see again, which both enriches and complicates his life.
23) Be my eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Most nineteen year olds believe they are invincible. They wake up each day thinking they have all the time in the world to travel, to get an education, to fall in love. Ruby Sewell isn most nineteen year olds. She wakes up every morning unable to see a thing, her only goal to make it to the west coast before her time runs out. Most twenty-six year olds don live life in a self-destructive spiral. They don engage in bar fights, scrape by on low-end...
24) Breaking free
Publisher
Distributed by Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"When Rick and Lindsay meet at a camp for the blind, they each have a challenge to overcome. Lindsay is coping with blindness, and Rick must prove that he can be trusted. Although they clash at first, it isn't long before they are leaning on each other for strength. As Lindsay finds the courage to compete again, Rick must choose between keeping his friends and being responsible. Together, they must break free from the past and face the future...
25) Ice castles
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Alex Winston is young, beautiful and talented. She comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her boyfriend behind. When a tragic fall leaves her blind, she needs someone to believe in her, to love her and convince her she has the strength to skate and dream again.
Author
Series
Kay Farrow mysteries volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
When one of her subjects is murdered, San Francisco photographer Kay Farrow, a policeman's daughter, turns sleuth to catch the killer. Kay was shooting a story on the city's male prostitutes. Her probe takes her into the world of magic, the victim having also been an assistant magician.
27) Blindness
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"People who can see with their eyes find it hard to imagine what life must be like for those with blindness or visual impairment. For thousands of kids, though, this is a reality. While some are born with blindness or some type of visual impairment, others lose their sight later on because of a disease, infection, or injury. For kids with blindness or visual impairment, life presents a unique set of challenges. Overcoming these challenges is easier...
Author
Series
Off season volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ria and Drew Martin's chemistry had always kept their marriage together--until suddenly it didn't. Now a single mom, hotel manager Ria is at a loss when one of her teen daughters starts spiraling. Panicked, she calls on her estranged ex-husband for backup, but she's not prepared for the man he's become--or the unresolved emotions that still linger between them. After his divorce, Drew pulled away from everyone when he lost his eyesight and his job...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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 terms, blindness can also be made to suggest a door to artistic or spiritual transcendence. And she makes clear how all of this has obscured the reality of blindness, as a consequence of which...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"It's one challenge after another for 10-year-old John Avery Whittaker! He tinkers with electronics, takes on the lead in the school Christmas play, and comes up against a new bully, all while continuing to investigate the mysterious properties of the cloth from his grandfather's trunk - if he can find it! It's missing! Meanwhile, strangers have come to Provenance and they're askings lots of suspicious questions about the Confederate gold Johnny and...
Series
Ada Lace adventures volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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.
