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22) Algorithms
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"In India, a group of boys dream of becoming Chess Masters, driven by a man with a vision. But this is no ordinary chess and these are no ordinary players. Algorithms is a documentary on the thriving but little known world of Blind Chess in India. Filmed over three years, Algorithms travels with three talented boys and a totally blind player turned pioneer to competitive national and world championships and visits them in their home milieu where they...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's Kenai and Russian rivers, a grizzly came tearing around a corner in the trail. Dan barely had time for "bear charging" to register before it had him on the ground, altering his life forever. "Upper nose, eyes, forehead anatomy...
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...
26) Tiresias
Publisher
Alfhaville Cinema
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Tiresia, a Brazilian transsexual of extreme beauty, lives illegally with her brother, Terranova, in the periphery of Paris. The one, an aesthetic with poetic ideas, observes Tiresia as if she were a perfect rose, and ends up kidnapping her so that she only belongs to him. Deprived of her daily hormones, Tiresia is transforming little by little in front of his eyes.
27) Love is blind
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A girl tries to win her blind ex-boyfriend back by learning to act and pretending to be other people.
28) Nowhere near you
Author
Series
Because you'll never meet me volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
" Ollie and Moritz might never meet, but their friendship knows no bounds. Their letters carry on as Ollie embarks on his first road trip away from the woods--no easy feat for a boy allergic to electricity--and Moritz decides which new school would best suit an eyeless boy who prefers to be alone. Along the way they meet other teens like them, other products of strange science who lead seemingly normal lives in ways Ollie and Moritz never imagined...
30) Man up
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Two orphan vampires (Les Deux Orphelines Vampires) follows Henriette and Louise (Isabelle Teboul and Alexandra Pic), two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision (they "see blue"), as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.
32) Heatwave
Author
Series
Naomi Blake mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
34) All I see is you
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves.
38) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
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
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Griffin, the teen who helped Cheyenne, who is blind, escape in Girl, Stolen, goes missing right before he's set to testify at his father's trial. Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel"--
40) A patch of blue
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.
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