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2) The Passage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Formats
Description
First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear - of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
3) The silence
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the darkness of a underground cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed. Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death. Deaf for many years, Ali knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can...
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jolene Yoder returns to Indiana to teach lip reading and sign language to the newly deaf Amish man Lonnie Hershberger. As she begins falling for Lonnie, Jolene wonders if she'll ever see "signs" of his love for her. Lovelorn Lonnie is fighting his attraction to Jolene, especially since she seems smitten by Jake Beechy. And Ella Miller is worried the roving Jake will end up breaking her cousin Jolene's heart, never realizing that Jake has really set...
5) The twelve
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the end of book one into a half human, half viral--but...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, the ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town in ways no one could have imagined"--
Author
Series
Caleb Zelic novels volume 1
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up telltale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But he can't do it alone. Caleb and his troubled friend Frankie, an ex-cop, start with one clue: Scott, the last word the murder victim texted to Caleb....
Author
Series
Spanish Bit Saga superedition volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
From birth he'd been called Speajs-not. Deaf and mute he lives in a world of silence apart from his people, who later rename him Hunts-Alone for his unsual but successful approach to securing sustenance from the wild game that roams the land. Stronger than his handicap, he finds love, establishes his own lodge, and begins a family of his own-all of which is shattered forever the day the forest people attack his encampment.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After someone breaks into her home and tries to assault her, Alexis Roberts, who is hearing impaired, believes the intruder is her husband, who, after she made a horrifying discovery, disappeared without a trace, and finds herself trapped in a nightmare of fear and uncertainty.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair's Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons...
Author
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a small Michigan town in 1942, over the course of four days, Sandra Horowitz, a deaf Jewish woman who dreams of being a veterinarian, and Rudy Townsend, a hearing Gentile soldier about to ship out to the war in Europe, meet and fall in love, despite all the opposition and prejudice they encounter.
Author
Series
The Montgomerys and Armstrongs volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Eveline Armstrong, a remarkable deaf woman with a rare gift, teaches a gruff Scottish warrior how to listen with his heart.
15) Silent lotus
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although she cannot speak or hear, Lotus trains as a Khmer court dancer and becomes eloquent in dancing out the legends of the gods.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
18) Next of kin
Author
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two bickering strangers trying to foster their younger siblings team up to create a stable home, but the chemistry between them threatens to undo their plans. When people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn't hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services' financial evaluation, she is faced with a choice: see her baby sister placed in foster care...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Arlo Dilly is young, handsome and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim to none. And yet, it happened once before: many years ago, at a boarding school for the Deaf, Arlo met the love of his life-a mysterious girl with onyx eyes and beautifully expressive hands which told him the most amazing stories....