Hoxie, Jim
Summary: "When Grandpa loses his sight, he attends a school for veterans who are visually impaired. There he regains his confidence for independent living. Grandpa shares these experiences and talks about educating children about the tall white cane."--Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Disabl HoxieMahoney, Rosemary.
Summary: Inspired by a visit to the first school for the blind in Tibet, the author investigates the cultural history of blindness, revealing the oppression experienced by the sightless around the world as well as their resilience, integrity, strength and ingenuity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.91 MAHGodin, M. Leona
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 GODLeland, Andrew
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B LELAND LELFrith, Margaret
Summary: Examines the life and times of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who developed the system of raised dots by which blind people read and write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Summary: "The story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHYasuda, Anita
Summary: "Gives readers a look into the lives and abilities of people who are blind, as well as the challenges they face. Learn how people who are blind read and write, navigate public transportation, and play sports" --Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.9 YASBarry, Susan R.
Summary: "Doctors have been able to cure some forms of congenital blindness and deafness for decades. But this has created another problem: most people end up hating their new senses. To ask someone to adapt to a new sense is to ask them to reshape their entire world. Many simply cannot. Every waking minute, they are bombarded by meaningless sights or sounds. Some sink into a depression so great that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 BARKleege, Georgina
Summary: A first-hand exploration of blindness, looking at how the blind have been presented in film and literature, attempting to capture in words the visual experience of someone with severely impaired sight, and including information from the author about the ways she reads, and the freedom she felt when she stopped hiding her blindness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.41 KLEHingson, Michael
Summary: Thunder Dog details a remarkable journey as Hingson and Roselle rely on each other and inspire others to survive. Listen in as Hingson faces almost certain death and discover what happens when small, intensely human moments rise up--and even redefine--one of the most inhumane acts in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HINGSON, MICHAEL HINLevin, Caroline D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantern Publications 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 LEVLash, Joseph P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AFB Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LASMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: "When seventh-grader Eleanor reads an article online claiming that an asteroid will hit Earth in April, she starts an underground school club to prepare kids for the end of the world as we know it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCAMellor, C. Michael.
Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman, accidentally blinded as a child, who originated the raised dot system used by the blind throughout the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Braille Press 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 686.2 MELDunant, Sarah.
Summary: In 1527, when the city of Rome is sacked and burned by an invading army, the famed courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini and her dwarf companion, Bucino Teodoldi, escape to the wealthy and powerful city of Venice in order to rebuild their business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DUNLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LE GLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASClark, Anna (Anna Leigh)
Summary: "When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ ClarkHanna-Attisha, Mona
Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Hanna-AttishaHanna-Attisha, Mona
Summary: "The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power. Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan--in the name of austerity--shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: 615.9 HAN Book Club KitArem, Ridha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Med AremMcLaughlin, Kathleen
Summary: "Bad Blood meets Dreamland in this kaleidoscopic investigation into the shadowy and vampiric blood business and the dangerous limits of demand for the crucial resource that runs through our very veins. Every year, about twenty million Americans sell blood plasma for cash in a barely regulated market dominated by private industry and off-the-grid trafficking. These commercial efforts prey on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.17 MCLArem, Ridha
Summary: Includes material on thyroid imbalance, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, thyroid hormone as antidepressant, weight control, hormones and sexuality, fatigue, chronic fatigue, hypoglycemia, fibromyalgia, thyroid problems in women (premenstrual syndrome, menopause, infertility, miscarriage, postpartum depression), the T4/T3 protocol, thyroid eye disease, thyroid cancer, and other topics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.4 AREKnight, P. V.
Summary: Skeptical readers may not think a spider could take down and eat a bird, but this book certainly proves it. These menacing monsters stalk their flying prey, though they mostly stick to insects and other, easier-to-hunt victims. One of the most amazing things readers discover about this fierce predator is that much like other scary, hairy tarantulas they re mostly harmless to humans! Bird-eating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018