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The broken kingdoms
After a band of killers begins murdering godlings, blind artist Oree Shoth wonders if her recent guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in danger.
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The Radical Lives of Helen Keller
A political biography that reveals new sides to Helen Keller Several decades after her death in 1968, Helen Keller remains one of the most widely recognized women of the twentieth century. But the fascinating story of her vivid political life—particularly her interest in radicalism and anti-capitalist activism—has been largely overwhelmed by the sentimentalized story of her as a young deaf-blind girl. Keller had many lives indeed. Best known for her advocacy on behalf of the blind, she was also a member of the socialist party, an advocate of women's suffrage, a defender of the radical International Workers of the World, and a supporter of birth control—and she served as one of the nation's most effective but unofficial international ambassadors. In spite of all her political work, though, Keller rarely explored the political dimensions of disability, adopting beliefs that were often seen as conservative, patronizing, and occasionally repugnant. Under the wing of Alexander Graham Bell, a controversial figure in the deaf community who promoted lip-reading over sign language, Keller became a proponent of oralism, thereby alienating herself from others in the deaf community who believed that a rich deaf culture was possible through sign language. But only by distancing herself from the deaf community was she able to maintain a public image as a one-of-a-kind miracle. Using analytic tools and new sources, Kim E. Nielsen's political biography of Helen Keller has many lives, teasing out the motivations for and implications of her political and personal revolutions to reveal a more complex and intriguing woman than the Helen Keller we thought we knew.
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In the dark
\"Jenny Aaron was once part of an elite police unit in Berlin, tracking the country's most dangerous criminals. She was the best. Until a mission went wrong and she lost her sight forever. Five years later, Aaron has shut out her past life and learnt to get by in a darkened world. A world now guided by sound, smell, instinct and intuition. But she's still haunted by her failure. Then she receives a call from her old boss. A prisoner has committed a brutal murder in his high security cell. And he will only confess to one person: Special Agent Jenny Aaron. IN THE DARK is a tense, gripping thriller, full of twists you won't see coming\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Workshop on Rebuilding Abalone Stocks in British Columbia
An international Workshop on Rebuilding Abalone Stocks in British Columbia was held during February 23-26, 1999, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The main goal of the workshop was to develop a realistic strategy to rehabilitate depleted northern (pinto) abalone, Haliotis kamtschatkana, stocks in British Columbia.
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Augustown
\"Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth. Ma Taffy may be blind but she sees everything. So when her great-nephew Kaia comes home from school in tears, what she senses sends a deep fear running through her. While they wait for his mama to come home from work, Ma Taffy recalls the story of the flying preacherman and a great thing that did not happen. A poor suburban sprawl in the Jamaican heartland, Augustown is a place where many things that should happen don't, and plenty of things that shouldn't happen do. For the story of Kaia leads back to another momentous day in Jamaican history, the birth of the Rastafari and the desire for a better life\"--Provided by publisher.
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El corazón de la noche
Un instructor de manejo se enamora de una muchacha que acompaña a un ciego. El instructor la sigue y descubre que ella y el ciego dan masajes de rehabilitación y finge necesitar sus servicios. Luego pacta con el ciego pagar con clases a la joven, que es sordomuda. Un desorejado también la pretende. Asombrado el instructor descubre que el ciego dirige una sociedad secreta de lisiados que pretende defenderse de los normales. La sordomuda le corresponde y juntos provocan la muerte del ciego. Los lisiados los persiguen, pero luego los perdonan. El instructor comprende que debe mutilarse para ser aceptado y se vacía los ojos.
A driving instructor falls in love with a girl who accompanies a blind person. The instructor follows her and discovers that she and blind person give rehabilitation massages and pretends to need her services. Then makes a pact with the blind person to pay for classes with the girl, who is deaf and dumb. He also pretends to be deaf. Amazed the instructor discovers that the blind person leads a secret society that seeks to defend the disabled normal. The deaf mute and together corresponds cause the death of the blind. The disabled people pursue them, but then pardon them. The instructor realizes that he must mutilate himself to be accepted and gouges out his eyes.
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Gregory's game : a Naomi Blake novel
Ex-DI Alec Friedman is recovering from the car crash that almost killed him. Now back at home, with his wife Naomi, he feels as though he has lost something of himself. He may be alive, but he is hollowed out and empty. Another man standing at the same crossroads is Gregory. Soldier, mercenary, hired killer, Gregory is contemplating retirement and struggling to find meaning in the idea. Then a brutal murder, followed by the kidnap of a mother and child, drags Alec, Naomi and Gregory back into the game. Why was Anthony Palmer tortured and killed and what sort of kidnappers send no ransom demand and make no contact with the family of the victim? Whoever they are, they killed Palmer, and now the race is on to find Katherine and her baby before they too end up dead.
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In the land of birdfishes
Follows the lives of two Nova Scotian sisters who have to deal with their mother's suicide. Aileen, who is partially blind, travels to Dawson City, Yukon, where her fully blind sister, Mara, is supposedly living. Instead she finds Jason, Mara's angry son, with many stories to share.
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