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1) Blindness
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A stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive,...
An International Bestseller • "This is a shattering work by a literary master."—Boston Globe
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive,...
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Years ago, Rebecca Beachy kept her reasons for rejecting Gideon Troyer's marriage proposal a secret. Then Gideon left their Amish community. Now, Rebecca crafts quilts to raise money to cure her blindness, and carefully guards her heart against love. Then Gideon returns, at risk of being shunned, to make the winning bid on one of her exquisite quilts. Will Rebecca's quilt - a patchwork promise of rediscovered love - bring Gideon and Rebecca back together...
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Kendra Michaels volume 8
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"Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful--able to detect what other investigators may not. So when a world-famous pop star is kidnapped mid-show, investigator Kendra leads a pulse-pounding race to rescue the young woman from a deadly foe. This time Kendra gets assistance from recurring...
4) Blind spots
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"Blind Spots is a riveting crime novel with a speculative edge about what we really see with our own eyes. Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark...
5) Soundless
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"A fantasy adventure steeped in Chinese folklore about a teenage girl named Fei. When her village is suddenly in danger, Fei finds herself on a journey from the peak of her jagged mountain village to the valley of Beiguo, where a startling truth and an unlikely romance will change her life forever"--
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OBD Mysteries Around the World - Adult
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2022-2023 (Adult)
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2022-2023 (Adult)
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"In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime"--Publisher.
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To powieść o nieustającym poszukiwaniu miłości, wyzwaniach, które stoją przed samotną matką i nie zawsze prostych relacjach z dorosłymi - jakże różnymi córkami (co nie dziwi, skoro mają trzech ojców...). Paryż - stolica miłości i sztuki. Isabelle McAvoy, młoda stażystka w galerii malarstwa zakochuje się bez pamięci w bogatym, znacznie starszym arystokracie. W jego zamku w Normandii przeżywa cudowny sen na jawie. Aż dowiaduje...
8) Ecstasy
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About to lose her eyesight, schoolteacher Jeannetta Rollins believes that her only hope lies in surgeon Mason Fenwick, a doctor who has left medicine because of an unavoidable tragedy, and risks everything to get him to operate.
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"Rand Prescott believes that his chances for happiness are limited because he's going blind. But when he meets Karen McAlister one magical starlit night, he begins to imagine a different future-one filled with love. Karen already knows she wants to be with him for the rest of her life. But Rand refuses to consider marriage; he refuses to bind her to a man who can't see. Brokenhearted, Karen is prepared to walk away, but can Rand really let her go?"--P....
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As a light-talent, Alice North has the rare ability to make things disappear, including herself -- a gift that comes in handy during her magic act with her dust bunny Houdini. Business mogul Drake Sebastian is day-blind, since his sight was nearly destroyed in a lab accident. But he's the one man who can see Alice when she disappears -- and he needs her. On Rainshadow Island, two dangerous Old World crystals are missing, igniting a paranormal storm....
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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.
12) Fox River
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Daughter of a legendary Virginia hunt masterand aristocrat, Julia Warwick grew up in a world whereThoroughbreds and foxhunting are passions, not pastimes.Julia finds her own passion in Christian Carver, a talentedyoung horse trainer. But when a beautiful heiress is murderedand Christian is convicted of the crime, a pregnant, desperateJulia marries a friend who offers solace.Now, though blindness darkens her world, it opens her eyesto hidden truths....
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Deano was a star soccer player at her school in Jamaica, but things are so different at her American school. The boys have a "No Girls Allowed" rule and she hates it! But Jay is different from the other boys in her class. He reads with his fingers and has a cool dog he gets to bring to school. And he loves soccer, too! There's just one thing Deano can't figure out: How can Jay play soccer if he can't see?
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With an "astute sense of musical form and a wonderful sense of passion" (New York Times Book Review), master storyteller Margriet de Moor, one of Europe's foremost novelists, once again brings us a richly imagined and highly original tale of passion and jealousy.
The unnamed narrator, a young musicologist, meets and befriends the famous blind music critic Marius van Vlooten. Their first encounter is on an airplane en route to a master class in Bordeaux,...
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"Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hoagland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is trying to figure out his next move, holed up in his Vermont cabin surrounded by a hippy commune, drug runners, farmers-gone-bust, blood-thirsty auctioneers, and general...
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Una epidemia de ceguera golpea una ciudad y el resultado es el caos, el gobierno emite órdenes de disparar a matar. Gran parte de la acción se ve a través de los ojos de una mujer que dice ser ciega para no ser separada de su marido. Una mirada a cómo se comportan las personas bajo estrés. Por el autor de La Historia del Sitio de Lisboa.
An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders....
18) Beyond the night
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Maddie teeters between life and death. Her husband Paul begs her to remember their love, regain consciousness, and come home. She recalls pushing Paul away--just before their love found voice and just as her blindness stole her hopes and dreams. And then she remembers Paul's unselfish, undying love.
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She's the only one who can help... But will he let her? After an explosion leaves Juan Kuepfer injured and blind, Amish widow Annalise Overgard is asked to help him adjust to living without his sight. She's raising a daughter who is blind, so she can understand some of the challenges he might face. But Annalise doesn't trust her neighbor--until she learns who he really is. Now, falling for Juan is the one thing Annalise won't see coming...