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1) Song for a whale

Author

Kelly, Lynne

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.

2) Sons of Blackbird Mountain: a novel

Author

Bischof, Joanne

Series

Blackbird Mountain novels volume 1
A Blackbird Mountain novel volume 1

Publisher

Thomas Nelson

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Two handsome brothers. An age-old Appalachian feud. And a love that may tear the Norgaard family apart.

After the tragic death of her husband, Aven Norgaard is beckoned to give up her life in Norway to become a housekeeper in the rugged hills of nineteenth-century Appalachia. Upon arrival, she finds herself in the home of her late husband's cousins—three brothers who make a living by brewing hard cider on their three-hundred-acre

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3) Show me a sign

Author

LeZotte, Ann Clare

Series

Show me a sign volume 1

Language

English

Formats

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Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, in 1805, over a hundred years later, many people there -- including Mary -- are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated. She is proud of her lineage. But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary's brother died,...

4) Impossible music

Author

Williams, Sean

Language

English

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Find Your Voice - Teen

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In a class for the newly deaf, former musician Simon meets G and his quest to create an entirely new form of music helps him better understand her, himself, and his relationship to the hearing world.

5) "22"

Author

Deaf Havana

Language

English

6) A touch of Grace

Author

Snelling, Lauraine

Series

Daughters of blessing volume 3

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle

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The arrival of a wealthy young man leads Grace to question what she really wants in life. The third book in this best-selling historical series. Daughters of Blessing book 3

7) Abigail's new hope

Author

Ellis, Mary

Series

Wayne County series volume 1

Publisher

Harvest House Publishers

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Abigail, a young midwife, is sent to jail after a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn. Her sister, Catherine, comes to stay and help care for Abigail's children while Abigail's husband works the field. Catherine meets Isaiah, a deaf man thought to be simpleminded, and discovers that he possesses unexpected gifts and talents.

8) Set me free

Author

LeZotte, Ann Clare

Series

Show me a sign volume 2

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...

9) What the deaf-mute heard: a novel

Author

Gearino, G. D

Physical Desc

221 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

10) Unspeakable

Author

Brown, Sandra

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle

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A drifter working as a ranch hand in East Texas must protect a widow and her young son from the ruthless criminal who is determined to destroy them.
Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he's going back to where he began: Blewer County, Texas.
Born deaf and recently widowed, Anna Corbett fights to keep the ranch that is her son's birthright,...

11) Report of the trustees of the Tennessee institution for the deaf and dumb, at Knoxville, to the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee

Author

Tennessee School for the Deaf

Publisher

[Knoxville Register Office]

Pub. Date

1852.

Language

English

12) Words for a deaf daughter

Author

West, Paul

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1970]

Edition

[first edition].

Physical Desc

188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

13) You're welcome, universe

Author

Gardner, Whitney

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a "mainstream" school in the suburbs, where she's treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy...

14) The Quiet ear: deafness in literature : an anthology

Publisher

Faber and Faber

Pub. Date

1988.

Physical Desc

247 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

15) Love ... and beyond

Publisher

[Tennessee School for the Deaf]

Pub. Date

[between 1900 and 1999?]

Physical Desc

22 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Language

English

16) Deaf hearing boy: a memoir

Author

Miller, R. H

Series

Deaf lives

Publisher

Gallaudet University Press

Pub. Date

2004.

Physical Desc

xviii, 155 pages : illustrations, geneological table ; 22 cm.

Language

English

17) Living with a deaf dog: a book of advice, facts and experiences about canine deafness

Author

Becker, Susan Cope

Publisher

S.C. Becker

Pub. Date

1998.

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

115 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

18) Tennessee School for the Deaf scrapbook, 1950-1980

Publisher

The School

Pub. Date

1982.

Physical Desc

106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

19) The other side of silence: sign language and the deaf community in America

Author

Neisser, Arden

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

1983.

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

xi, 301 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

20) Outsiders in a hearing world: a sociology of deafness

Author

Higgins, Paul C

Series

Sociological observations volume 10

Publisher

Sage Publications

Pub. Date

[1980]

Physical Desc

205 pages ; 22 cm.

Language

English

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1) Song for a whale

2) Sons of Blackbird Mountain: a novel

3) Show me a sign

4) Impossible music

5) "22"

6) A touch of Grace

7) Abigail's new hope

8) Set me free

9) What the deaf-mute heard: a novel

10) Unspeakable

11) Report of the trustees of the Tennessee institution for the deaf and dumb, at Knoxville, to the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee

12) Words for a deaf daughter

13) You're welcome, universe

14) The Quiet ear: deafness in literature : an anthology

15) Love ... and beyond

16) Deaf hearing boy: a memoir

17) Living with a deaf dog: a book of advice, facts and experiences about canine deafness

18) Tennessee School for the Deaf scrapbook, 1950-1980

19) The other side of silence: sign language and the deaf community in America

20) Outsiders in a hearing world: a sociology of deafness

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