blind

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The summer-house loon

1979
A teenage girl and her blind history professor father help a young couple in love solve their biggest problem.

Belonging

a novel
1978
Fifteen-year-old Meg realizes that it's not her blindness that prevents her from joining the "in" crowd but her own individuality.

Half the battle

1982
Jealous of the attention that has always been focused on his blind brother, Loren takes drastic action to achieve recognition for himself when the teenagers enter an endurance ride on horseback.

Blind Justice

1994
First of a series featuring Sir John Fielding, a magistrate who in the 18th Century co-founded London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners. The narrator is Jeremy Proctor, a 13-year-old orphan who serves as Fielding's eyes. Fielding is blind. The series opens with the "suicide" of a lord known for his gambling and extra-marital affairs.

Person or Persons Unknown

A Sir Joh Fielding Mystery
1997
Legendary nineteenth-century London judge Sir Joh Fielding returns in this fourth mystery. John Fielding was the founder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, as well as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon detective ability. When a crime was committed, he often took it upon himself to solve it. What made this all the more remarkable was that he was blind.

Helen Keller

1995
Celebrates the life and accomplishments of Helen Keller, who became blind and deaf after a childhood illness and refused to let her disabilities stop her from becoming a scholar and lecturer.

Gift of gold

1972
A young girl is determined to prove she can succeed as a speech therapist despite her blindness.

Knots on a counting rope

1985
A grandfather and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race.

The man who sang in the dark

1987
Ten-year-old Leah, her young brother, and their recently widowed mother begin forging a new life for themselves through friendship with a blind man and the other inhabitants of their boarding house in Philadelphia during the Depression.

Her heart can see

the life and hymns of Fanny J. Crosby
2005
Profiles nineteenth-century American hymn writer Fanny Crosby discussing her songs and her work with New York City's rescue missions. Draws on primary sources which include thousands of unpublished Crosby manuscripts. Also includes over two dozen black-and-white photographs.

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