Yasuda, 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
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.9 YASRusick, Jessica
Summary: "In this title, readers learn common symptoms and behaviors of blindness and how it affects kids at school and in relationships. Text includes suggestions on how to be a kind and respectful friend to someone who is blind and appropriate activities kids can enjoy together. A famous person who has overcome the challenges of blindness is highlighted."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.41 RUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J616.85 RUSQueen, Ben
Summary: "Bear is a guide dog who would do anything for his owner and best friend Patrick who is blind. But when Bear suddenly loses his vision, he worries he's lost his purpose in life - protecting Patrick! Following the misguided advice from some self-serving raccoons, Bear embarks on a transformative journey to regain his eyesight. Out of both necessity and survival, he learns to tap into his other...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 QUEHoagland, Edward
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HOASummary: A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VOYKleege, 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 KLEJohansen, Iris
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHRelin, David Oliver.
Summary: David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. This book takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 610 RELFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one's limited color perception. society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOLevine, Karen Rae.
Summary: Corey, a fourth-grader, explains how his color deficiency caused problems in kindergarten and how he learned to cope with the special way he sees colors. Includes new and updated information on living with CVD and the science of CVD.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Halesite Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Human LevineCooper, Gwen.
Summary: Gwen Cooper presents a heartwarming memoir based on her relationship with her cat, Homer. Already owning two cats, Cooper was unsure if she really wanted another animal in the house. However, when she was given an opportunity to take home Homer, an eyeless kitten, she couldn't refuse. Here, Cooper reveals Homer's extraordinary escapades, including surviving the 9/11 terrorist attacks and saving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.8 COOOnda, Riku
Summary: "In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction OndaSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IGodin, 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 GODJohansen, Iris
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSacks, Oliver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.759 SACJohansen, Iris
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M JOHMalerman, Josh
Summary: In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2014
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MALSaramago, José.
Summary: An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARSummary: Faced with a fatal disease, a professor agrees to an operation that restores his sight and after he returns to his family he discovers that he is unhappy with his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Films 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILCalandrelli, Emily
Summary: 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
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Calandrelli 2017Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CALKeller, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Airmont Pub. 1965
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 KELLevin, Caroline D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantern Publications 1998