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Series
Wayne County volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
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As an Amish midwife, Abigail Graber loves bringing babies into the world. But when a difficult delivery takes a devastating turn, Abigail is faced with some hard choices. Despite her best efforts, the young mother dies-but the baby is saved.
When a heartless judge confines Abigail to the county jail for her mistakes, her sister Catherine comes to care for her children while Daniel works his fields. Catherine meets Daniel's reclusive cousin, Isaiah,...
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Language
English
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Surrounded by her family's love and the townsfolk's kindness, 18-year-old Grace Knutson finds all she could want in Blessing--except for a sweetheart. But when God brings a rich New Yorker into her life, Grace fears a deaf girl won't find acceptance in his privileged world.
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Language
English
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
It's time to try something new, and Emma loves art. But Emma has never tried pottery before. It's a lot harder than it looks! Will Emma keep trying or give up before her project is done? Emma is Deaf and often uses sign language to communicate, and this early chapter book includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
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Language
English
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Description
After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
It's summer, and Emma and Izzie are bored and broke. Setting up a lemonade stand is a sweet way to solve both those problems! But, running a business isn't as easy as it seems. I hope that their hard work will pay off! Emma is Deaf and often uses sign language to communicate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Language
English
Description
Izzie loves roller-skating, and Emma can't wait to try it. It's the perfect spring day, she has all her gear, and she is ready to roll! Skating isn't easy, but Emma refuses let her fear of falling ruin her fun! Emma is Deaf and often uses sign language to communicate, and this early chapter book includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
13) First flight
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
Emma and her family are going to visit Aunt Betty who has a farm, but Emma has never flown before and she is a little nervous.
14) The printer
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Language
English
Description
A boy recalls the day his deaf father saved everyone's life when fire broke out at the newspaper printing plant where he worked.
16) Handtalk zoo
Author
Publisher
Four Winds Press
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Words and sign language depict children at the zoo discovering how to sign the names of various animals and how to tell time.
Author
Series
Blackbird Mountain novels volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart"--
When Aven Norgaard leaves Norway to serve as housekeeper to her late husband's cousins in Appalachia, she expects lads in need of care, not three grown men, each in need of a wife and bound by a powerful brotherhood. As the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After an influential man in the deaf community is murdered, Frank Malloy is assigned the case, presumably because his son attends the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Malloy suspects the murderer is tied to the school, and turns to midwife Sarah Brandt for help.
20) Feathers
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
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