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A brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.

The life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who invented an alphabet enabling the blind to read.

Although blind, Matty is an excellent skateboarder, but when the former champion mocks him during the skating competition, Matty shows that seeing is not everything.

"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"--Provided by the publisher.

Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted into her forever home, and just maybe Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems.

Focuses on the early life of a woman who is well known for overcoming her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.

A London teenager, who is blind, and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.

College student Mike Mavic, having traveled to Steepleton to follow up on news that the body of Christopher Creed, who disappeared four years earlier, was found, realizes the people in the town have underlying streaks of meanness and the only person who cares about Christopher anymore is his younger brother, Justin, who is teetering on the edge of sanity.

When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

Driving through mountain fog to the beach, two young brothers compete to see who will catch the first glimpse of the ocean, but it is their blind sister Nellie who senses it first.