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Lucca
Par Jens Christian Grøndahl. 2002
Thirty-two-year-old actress Lucca Montale loses her sight in a near-fatal car accident. Over time she becomes close to her recently…
divorced doctor, Robert. The two fall in love while reliving tense family relationships and troubled romances in the past. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1998Phantom waltz
Par Catherine Anderson. 2001
Rancher Ryan Kendrick of Oregon falls in love with paraplegic Bethany Coulter. Bethany was injured during a barrel-racing contest eight…
years ago and resists romance. But Ryan puts aside all of her obstacles and continues pursuing her. Sequel to Baby Love (DB 50821). Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2001The rescuer
Par Dee Henderson. 2003
Following The Healer (BR 14407) paramedic Stephen O'Malley leaves his job due to burnout, grief from losing his sister, and…
loss of faith. But when his blind friend, Meghan, is threatened by a gang of jewel thieves he rescues her and rediscovers his roots. 2003Come home, my heart
Par Phyllis Campbell. 1988
Dr. Susan Perry, an obstetrician, becomes blind after a brain tumor is removed. Once rehabilitated, she moves to a poor,…
rural Virginia town. In her new career as a social worker, she becomes an integral part of the community and falls in love. 1988The silent boy
Par Lois Lowry. 2003
America, early 1900s. Katy Thatcher recalls her early childhood as the daughter of a country doctor. She had befriended Jacob…
Stoltz, a teenager "touched in the head," who, though silent, cared for animals and seemed kind. But then Jacob was accused of a terrible crime. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2003Blind sighted
Par Peter Moore. 2001
Eleventh-grader Kirk Tobak is moody and bored with school, his alcoholic mother, and druggie friends. His job reading for an…
independent young blind woman, with whom he discusses his problems, gives Kirk new insights. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2002The art of seeing: a novel
Par Cammie McGovern. 2002
As a child, Jemma watched older sister Rozzie blossom into a teenage beauty and promising actress. But Rozzie kept her…
failing vision a secret. Now as adults they seek to reestablish their relationship against the backdrop of celebrity. 2002Stuck in neutral
Par Terry Trueman. 2000
Fourteen-year-old Shawn has a phenomenal memory for everything he's ever heard, but nobody knows it because his cerebral palsy has…
made him unable to communicate. Now Shawn suspects that his father, in a misguided plan to end the boy's pain, is planning to kill him. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. Printz Honor. 2000The fated sky
Par Henrietta Branford. 1999
Ran, a sixteen-year-old Viking girl, is blamed for her mother's death and selected for sacrifice to Odin. Toki, a blind…
musician, helps her escape and the two flee Norway for Iceland. Unfortunately, their enemy, Vigut, reappears. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. For senior high readers. 1996Hope Mountain
Par Jon Land. 1998
Jen feels guilty that a traffic accident led to the loss of her teenage brother's leg. At an adaptive ski…
school, they meet instructor Jamie Brooks, who was a champion until an injury sidelined his career. Matt learns quickly and challenges Jamie to ski a dangerous trail. Some strong languageBad Girl Creek: a novel
Par Jo-Ann Mapson. 2001
After wheelchair-user Phoebe inherits a California flower farm from her aunt, she needs help running it. So she takes in…
three women housemates--Ness, Nance, and Beryl--who have each made bad decisions in the past and welcome a new start. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2001Silent melody
Par Mary Balogh. 1997
As a young child, Lady Emily Marlowe has a fever that leaves her deaf and unable to speak, yet she…
learns to communicate with Lord Ashley Kendrick in their own special language. So she is devastated when he goes to India and then marries. Later, in 1763 Ashley returns home, and Emily knows she loves only him--but she is engaged to another. Some descriptions of sexFor your eyes only
Par Rebecca York. 1997
Jenny Larkin lost her sight in a car accident in high school. She blames herself, though no one else does.…
Ben Brisco has always loved Jenny, yet never expressed it. Their feelings come to the surface when Jenny becomes a possible witness in her best friend's murder. Some descriptions of sexThe light that failed
Par Rudyard Kipling. 1986
Kipling's first novel, published in 1890, is the story of an artist who received a sword wound while working in…
the Sudan as an illustrator. Knowing that his sight would soon be gone, he strove to finish his painting, "Melancholia," at the same time suffering from an unhappy love affairOf such small differences
Par Joanne Greenberg. 1988
Twenty-five-year-old John Moon, blind since birth and deaf since the age of nine, lives alone in a small apartment, has…
a job, and writes poetry. But life is not easy for John. Then he meets and falls in love with Leda, an actress, who drives one of the vans that transport blind persons to work. For a time their relationship works, but their lives and needs are too different. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexGoing blind
Par Jonathan Penner. 1977
Novel about a young professor who loses an eye in a car accident and then suffers sympathetic failure of vision…
in the other. He decides to conceal his ailment to keep his position at the university and the woman he loves. Strong languageApparitions
Par Adam Pottle, Marissa Van Uden. 2023
"An intensely unsettling read." -David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED XVIOLENCE WAS HIS FIRST LANGUAGE. After years…
of imprisonment, a Deaf teen escapes his father's basement. Bloody, alone, and without language, he stumbles through the Saskatchewan prairie until he lands in an isolated psychiatric facility, where he meets Felix, another Deaf teen, who eagerly teaches him Sign Language. As the two grow closer, the ambitious and cunning Felix begins to see his pupil less like an individual and more like a mind that he can mold in his own image, and as his ego grows, his plans to break free from the facility become increasingly more dangerous.Told entirely from a Deaf perspective, Apparitions is a powerful story like no other. With prose compared to Cormac McCarthy and Jack Ketchum, this is horror literature at its finest.The morning and the evening
Par Joan Williams. 1994
Forty-year-old Jake Darby, who is mute and lives with his mother, is considered "not quite right in the head" by…
his Mississippi neighbors, who subject the disabled man to ridicule and cruel jokes. Jake's mother dies, tragedy strikes, and the townspeople come to regard Jake in a new lightHead above water
Par S. L Rottman. 1999
High school junior Skye is on the swim team and looks after her older brother, Sunny, who has Down syndrome,…
while their single mother works two jobs. When popular Mike begins dating Skye, she has to be devious to find the time. For junior and senior high readers.The Space between Here & Now
Par Sarah Suk. 2023
Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You’ve Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows…
a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific memories.Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she’ll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee’s fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life.When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom—a moment Aimee has never remembered before—she becomes distraught. Not only was this her longest disappearance yet, but the memory doesn’t match up with the story of how her mom left—at least, not the version she’s always heard from her dad.Desperate for answers, Aimee travels to Korea, where she unravels the mystery of her memories, the truth about her mother, and the reason she keeps returning to certain moments in her life. Along the way, she realizes she’ll need to reconcile her past in order to save her present.From acclaimed author Sarah Suk comes an aching, powerful exploration of memory, grief, and the painful silences we must overcome to discover our truest selves.