Blindness


Annotation:“Knighton writes with rare insight and humour about a common experience from an uncommon perspective.

Annotation:Remarkable autobiography of Dr. Jane Poulson, a sighted medical scientist who became blind in the first year of her professional career. She learned not only to accept every challenge to her health, but also how to live and work in a sighted world. And she did more than survive, she went on to a stellar career as a phsician, teacher and researcher

Annotation:A pet rescue volunteer describes her relationship with a 3-pound blind cat whose daredevil character and affectionate personality saw the author through six moves, a burglary, and the healing of her broken heart.

Annotation:The author of the highly regarded Planet of the Blind instructs us in the fine art of listening.




Annotation:Saramago's 1998 Nobel prize-winning novel, about the citizens of an unnamed city going blind and succumbing to their basest instincts.


Annotation:Sir John Fielding, the blind chief magistrate of the Bow Street Court, and his able assistant, orphan Jeremy Proctor, must solve a possible murder at sea by investigating why Captain Josiah Markham went overboard. 3rd in the popular series.

Annotation:15-year-old Bobby discovers that he has become invisible overnight. He reaches out to a blind girl, Alicia Van Dorn, and together they begin to fight back as best as they can.

Annotation:The gripping true-life adventure of six blind Tibetan teenagers on a climbing expedition up formidable Mount Everest.

Annotation:Captures the stories of four extraordinary teenagers at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a public residential high school in Austin that has educated visually impaired students for more than 150 years.
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