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1) Blindness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to a empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element 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 the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings...
Author
Series
Shades of Grey volume 1
Language
English
Description
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 backwater village of East Carmine, his carefully cultivated plans to leverage his better-than-average red perception and marry into a powerful family are quickly upended. Eddie must contend with lethal swans, sneaky Yellows, inviolable...
4) The visitor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lori Wick's bestselling English Garden series (more than 720,000 copies sold) is filled with endearing characters and engaging stories. Now with fresh, new covers, each of the four books in the series will hold a favorite spot on the nightstand or bookshelf of any reader who loves a great romance.
The Visitor, book three in the series, is set in the English countryside, 1812. After being thrown from his horse, Alexander Tate is left with bandaged...
5) Blind spots
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Series
A shades of grey novel volume 2
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
438, 15 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
9) Fox River
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Daughter of a legendary Virginia hunt master and aristocrat, Julia Warwick grew up in a world where Thoroughbreds and foxhunting are passions, not pastimes. Julia finds her own passion in Christian Carver, a talented young horse trainer. But when a beautiful heiress is murdered and Christian is convicted of the crime, a pregnant, desperate Julia marries a friend who offers solace. Now, though blindness darkens her world, it opens her eyes to hidden...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
As a young intern at an art gallery in Paris, Isabelle McAvoy meets Putnam Armstrong, wealthy, gentle, older, and secluded from the world. Isabelle's relationship with Putnam, and her time at his château on the Normandy coast, are the stuff of dreams. But it turns real when she becomes pregnant, for she knows that marriage is out of the question. When Isabelle returns to New York, she enters a new relationship that she hopes will be more stable and...
Author
Series
Dawn of Hawaii volume 3
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
344 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
13) Gifts
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While his father fights in the war for water, eleven-year-old Auden and his mother move to Cambridge, where Auden and his new friend Vivi discover his dead uncle's last, unfinished scientific achievement--a poetry-spouting robot seeking his purpose.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Grant has been sheltered and underestimated her entire life. Her blindness may set her apart, but she's just as fierce and loyal as any of her clansmen. So when she catches word that her brother's best friend is in jail, she doesn't hesitate to race to the brawny Highlander's rescue. Laird Ciar MacDougall is on a vital mission for Scotland when he witnesses a murder--and then is blamed for the death and thrown into a Redcoat prison to rot. He...
Author
Series
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
432 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nursing Ghisia, an orphaned stowaway, with a prophecy surrounding her, back to health, Hod, a blind cave dweller, discovers that they cannot be separated and are both plunged into a desperate world of warring clan chieftains and catastrophic power struggles where they must save each other.
A curse is weakening the Norse kingdom of Saylok: no daughters have been born in years. Washed up on these plagued shores, Ghisla is nursed back to health by a...