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4) Ray
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Ray Charles was born in a poor predominantly black town in central Florida. He went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed a fierce resolve. He had wit and incredible talent which would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented...
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Selena D'Arcy is accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother, Rose-Ann, at the age of five. For the next 13 years she is confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with her grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selena meets Gordon Ralfe, an office worker whose kind treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to...
8) The eye
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Sydney is a young, blind violinist who is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death which captures the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney is convinced that her anonymous eye donor has opened the door to a terrifying...
9) Blind dating
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Danny is smart, handsome, popular, and blind-- and not just physically. He also can't see how wild women are for him. Even his sexy therapist can't keep her clothes on around Danny. After a series of painful blind dates set up by his brother, Danny falls for a young Indian woman named Leeza, and finally everything seems picture perfect. But when cultures clash, and Leeza reveals that she's been promised to someone else, Danny must prove to her that...
10) The eye
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Sydney is a young, blind violinist who is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death which captures the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney is convinced that her anonymous eye donor has opened the door to a terrifying...
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Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her twin sister Sara hanged in the basement of her house. Everything points to suicide, but Julia is compelled to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case. As Julia begins to uncover clues to the truth of her sister's death, those close to her begin to disappear. Her sight gone and confined to her sister's house, Julia soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare from which...
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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....
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Zooni, a blind Kashmiri girl, meets Rehan Qadri, a local tour guide and an incorrigible flirt. Her friends warn her against him. Rehan, fascinated by Zooni, wants her to see life as it should be seen, in its many colours. He promises her that time spent with him will be the most precious in all her life. What Zooni doesn't know is that Rehan has another side of his life that he has kept from her--that side can change her life but also destroy it.
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Una divertida historia de amistad, amor y superación contada a través de los ojos de un perro guía. Cross es un perro guía alegre y travieso. Mario es un joven invidente que intenta abrirse camino en la vida. Juntos forman un equipo inseparable. A través de mis pequeños ojos es una conmovedora novela que narra las divertidas peripecias de Cross en el mundo de los humanos. Emilio Ortiz nos cuenta una realidad que él conoce bien, pues tiene...
16) El acuerdo
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Desesperado por escapar del casamentero de su madre, Vincent Hunt, el vizconde Darleigh, huye a un remoto pueblo rural. Pero incluso allí surge otra trampa marital. Entonces, cuando la intervención de la señorita Sophia Fry en su nombre la encuentra expulsada sin contemplaciones de la casa de sus tutores, Vincent se ve obligado a actuar. Es posible que haya quedado ciego en la batalla, pero puede ver una solución a los problemas de ambos: el matrimonio....
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The young Helen Keller, blind and deaf since infancy as a result of scarlet fever, becomes prone to violent outbursts that grow more frequent and intense, resulting in her parents, Captain Arthur Keller (Victor Jory) and Kate Keller (Inga Swenson), reaching out to a school for the blind for help. That help arrives in the form of Anne Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a teacher whose personal struggles have provided her with the tools to assist Helen. And...
19) No es invisible
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Un adolescente de Londres que es ciego y su hermano más joven de viajes a Nueva York para encontrar a su padre desaparecido, usando claves de su cuaderno.
A London teenager who is blind and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.
20) Marianela
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Nueva biblioteca didáctica volume 7
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"Marianela es una joven pobre, deforme y menospreciada por todo el mundo. Sólo encuentra consuelo y un hombro en el que apoyarse en Pablo, el hijo ciego del dueño de las minas de Socartes, a quien la desdichada muchacha hace las veces de lazarillo. Sus paseos y sus conversaciones devienen en un lazo que parece inquebrantable, y Pablo promete a Nela casarse algún día con ella. Sin embargo, la posibilidad de un remedio para su ceguera hará tambalear...