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Author
Series
Blackbird Mountain volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Aven Norgaard understands courage. Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard, a deaf man in rural Appalachia. That the Lord saw her along the winding journey and that Aven now carries Thor’s child are blessings beyond measure. Yet while Thor holds her heart, it is his younger brother and rival who haunts her memories. Haakon—whose selfish choices shattered...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological marvel, an intricate assembly of delicate membranes, bones, receptor cells, and neurons. Yet many people take their ears for granted, abusing them with loud restaurants, rock concerts, and Q-tips. And then, eventually, most of us start to go deaf." -- Publisher's description
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Maggie meets Jake, a cardiologist with a penchant for tandem skydiving. Getting ready for a post-jump date, Maggie comes across an old list of things she wanted to do "maybe one of these days," and decides what better time than now? She keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can't help but worry, even as Sydney grows more and more suspicious about their friendship. If Sydney is going to move past this jealousy, she will need to reconcile how...
4) Soundless
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fantasy adventure steeped in Chinese folklore about a teenage girl named Fei. When her village is suddenly in danger, Fei finds herself on a journey from the peak of her jagged mountain village to the valley of Beiguo, where a startling truth and an unlikely romance will change her life forever. --Provided by publisher.
6) Boy
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The king's battles with the dragon were always mighty and loud. Boy lived in a silent world and couldn't hear the fighting. But Boy could see the fear around him...and how everyone would be much happier without it.
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hearing impairment can be a debilitating condition. From tinnitus and benign paroxysmal positional vertigo to chronic migraines and ear infections, there are a host of underlying causes that can impact your ability to hear well. And hearing loss often goes hand-in-hand with feelings of vertigo. Problems with balance and chronic dizziness can affect every aspect of daily life and put you at risk of injury. In Mayo Clinic on Better Hearing and Balance,...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
For twenty-two years, Katherine Bouton had a secret that grew harder to keep every day. An editor at The New York Times, at daily editorial meetings she couldn’t hear what her colleagues were saying. She had gone profoundly deaf in her left ear; her right was getting worse. As she once put it, she was “the kind of person who might have used an ear trumpet in the nineteenth century.” Audiologists agree that we’re experiencing a national epidemic...
10) Etta Invincible
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster's Children Publishing Divison
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Etta Johnson has Loud Days where she can hear just fine and Quiet Days where sounds come from far away and she gets to retreat into her thoughts. Etta spends most of her time alone, working on her comic book about Invincible Girl, the superhero who takes down super villain Petra Fide. Invincible Girl is brave, daring, and bold--everything Etta wishes she could be. But when Louisa May Alcott, a friendly Goldendoodle from across the...
11) Sound of metal
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Darius Marder's Academy Award-winning film stars Riz Ahmed in an intense, committed performance as a drummer who loses his hearing and comes to discover deafness not as a disability but as a rich culture and community.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club graphix volume 12
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jessi recently moved to Stoneybrook and is one of the newest members of The Baby-sitters Club. She's getting ready to start regularly sitting for the BSC's newest charge, Matt Braddock. Matt has been Deaf since birth and uses sign language to communicate, so Jessi has to use it, too. It's a secret language! Soon all the neighborhood kids want to learn how to sign, which keeps the BSC busy. Jessi's the busiest of all -- she's preparing for her dance...
13) I am deaf
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Explore
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young girl who is deaf describes her daily life and how she manages to be happy despite the challenges posed by her disability.
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