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Helen shares her struggles with unassuming charm and intelligence: the frustration of not being able to express herself-- like wandering though a dense fog-- and the happiness of finally apprehending light breaking through the mist. The joy she felt when she first made the connection between the word water and the cold, wet liquid that poured over her fingers, comes spilling onto the pages with girlish, infectious enthusiasm. Written when she was...

A biography of the one-handed pitcher of the California Angels baseball team.

Relates how fourteen people overcame such handicaps as blindness, paralysis, and amputation to become notable scientists, musicians, and otherwise contributing members of society.

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.