Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A Shine of Rainbows A Shine of Rainbows Lillian Beckwith ***Mairi and Sandy live on a lonely Hebridean island, content with each other, despite their lack of children.*** When Mairi brings home Thomas, a child from the orphanage, Sandy is jealous of Mai… OL10591088W
White Banners White Banners Lloyd C. Douglas **A heartening story of a domestic servant who molded wisely the lives of her employers and their children, knowing that service, whether as servant or king, is a noble destiny.** **Lloyd Cassel D… OL12589W
Les yeux noirs Les yeux noirs Gilles Tibo "Un livre magnifique qui nous fait partager la vie d'un enfant aveugle. Une vie vue par de multiples yeux qui voient beaucoup plus que les nôtres ..." Réf. La Sélection de livres pour enfants et adol… OL24281532W
Private and confidential Private and confidential Marion Ripley When Laura finds out that her new Australian pen pal, Malcolm, is blind, she learns to use a braille machine to write to him. OL5954693W
Louis Braille Louis Braille Madeline Donaldson,Susan Bivin Aller Introduces the life of Louis Braille, who developed braille, an alphabet which allowed the blind to read. OL6028730W
Never Love a Stranger Never Love a Stranger Harold Robbins **Harold Robbins' very first novel is also one of his most powerful.** Never Love a Stranger tells the gritty and passionate tale of Francis "Frankie" Kane, from his meager beginnings as an orphan in… OL8045876W
Out of Darkness Out of Darkness Kate Kiesler,Russell Freedman A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write. OL85965W