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Author
Series
Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 2
Language
English
Description
After a band of killers begins murdering godlings, blind artist Oree Shoth wonders if her recent guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in danger.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After writing a story in Amish country, New York journalist Philip Bradley returns to Lancaster County haunted by the memory of a soft-spoken widow he met there, but winning her heart is just the first step in long journey that will require him surrendering his own culture.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Accidentally blinded as a child, 18-year-old Selina D'Arcey falls in love with a gentle and charming man, Gordon Ralfe, whom she meets in a rare visit to a park. Her racist mother declares that because Gordon is black, their relationship cannot continue, forcing Selina to choose between her family and her heart.
5) Night watch
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living in the darkness. Then, thanks to a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's Night Watch Project, she was given the gift of sight. Her highly-developed senses (honed during her years in the dark), combined with her new found vision, have made her a remarkable investigator, sought after by law-enforcement agencies all over the country. But her newest case finds...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The time is 1946, the town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly...
8) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
None
Formats
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
It was supposed to be a pleasant autumn walk in a quiet canyon with her German shepherd. But when Noletta Fahr stumbles upon a murder scene, the young law student becomes the next victim. Believing his bullet has killed Noletta, the murderer flees. But later he finds out firsthand she has survived. However, his alarm quickly turns to smug complacency when he learns she has been blinded by his actions and can't recognize him. But Noletta's dog, which...
11) Look behind you
Author
Series
Kendra Michaels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"A serial killer is on the loose in San Diego, and he has a most unusual M.O.: With each kill, he leaves behind objects with unclear meanings. Most of the recent killings are centered near Kendra Michaels' home and office, so it comes as no great surprise when the FBI shows up at her door. The investigators soon make a startling discovery: the left-behind objects are actually souvenirs of other unsolved serial murder cases in various U.S. cities....
12) Wait until dark
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A photographer unknowingly brings home a drug-filled doll. His blind wife is terrorized by two murderous men in search of it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale.
"The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news. A single mother, she manages her well-ordered career meticulously, always prepared on the air or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the second moving installment of her new "Kinship and Courage" series, bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick weaves a compelling tale of courage and loss, heartache and joy, as demonstrated in a small community of women whose faith and friendship must sustain them on a trip across the Oregon Trail.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor's army blew a hole in the wall of God's eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant's epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on...
16) 18 seconds
Author
Series
Sherry Moore novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A blind psychic possessing an ability to see murder victims' final moments of life, Sherry Moore is enlisted for help by New Jersey police Lieutenant Kelly O'Shaunisy, who is being targeted for her father's role in a serial killer's capture years earlier.
18) Dead eyes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The one-man stalker squad of the Beverly Hills Police Department begins his hunt for the stalker of a young Hollywood actress.
19) A patch of blue
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Selena D'Arcy is accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother, Rose-Ann, at the age of five. For the next 13 years she is confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with her grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selena meets Gordon Ralfe, an office worker whose kind treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
In Havana, Cuba an up-and-coming singer searches for confidence, a young woman in love longs for motherhood and a veteran of the Revolution comes to terms with the death of her husband. Three women, united by blindness and a desire for independence, guide us through Cuba's current economic and social landscape while pursuing their dreams and breaking through personal and societal limitations. Jennifer Redfearn gained intimate access to her subjects...
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