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1) Blindness
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Series
Language
English
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"A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers--among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears--through...
Author
Series
Chromatacia novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestseller hailed as “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” (The Washington Post) from the author of the Thursday Next series and Red Side Story.
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. But Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the...
Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. In this world, you are what you can see. But Eddie Russet wants to move up. When he and his father relocate to the...
4) Ya veremos
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
A boy makes a list of places to visit and things to see after learning that he could lose his eyesight. To fulfill his dreams, his estranged parents agree to come together and take their son on an adventurous and wacky journey of discovery.
5) Grey eyes
Publisher
Bayview Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, mankind is color blind. A brilliant scientist suddenly dies, leaving his precious briefcase, filled with a highly-addictive synthetic drug that allows people to see colors again, to Ana, a mere twelve-year-old girl. Possession of the briefcase makes her the target of a doctor with wicked plans for the drug, and her only hope to escape his pursuit relies on the aid of the dead scientist2s two devoted bodyguards. Together,...
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English
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From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.
In this transporting book, 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...
In this transporting book, 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...
Author
Series
Chromatacia novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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.
10) The mind's eye
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English
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Includes stories of six individuals who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing "indispensable" senses and faculties: the ability to read, the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation.
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English
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"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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye--forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye,...
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Series
Publisher
Amicus Illustrated
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Kadence! She loves to bake cookies and hang out with friends. She's also partially blind. Kadence is real and so are her experiences. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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 used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Publisher
DistriMax
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Homero is a painter. Mei is a young girl who has been abandoned by her mother at a brothel. Homero has a difficult time accepting the fact that he is going blind from an inherited condition. He visits his father, who is blind from the same condition, at a rest home. He does everything he can to not let his father know that he is going blind. He has even gone so far as to memorize passages of books so he can pretend to read them to his father during...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Three episodes from the television series about D.C.I. Ross Tanner, who is desperate to conceal the fact that he's losing his vision. In "Hide and Seek", Tanner is working on the two-year-old murder of a famous violinist in which the only one who may know who killed her is the victim's nine-year-old son. In "Parasomnia", Tanner is investigating a murder in which the murderer claims to have been sleepwalking. In Kingdom of the blind, Tanner is caught...
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