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xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Although millions of people could use good advice about hearing loss, it turns out that asking is difficult, and accurate advice is hard to come by. This book directly addresses the problem: it provides useful, first-hand advice from people who have experienced hearing loss themselves, along with accurate treatment information from a highly experienced audiologist. Prompted to write this book by a patient who thought the reality of hearing loss and...
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210 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation--and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life, until, in 2009, everything changed again. 'Sound' draws on this extraordinary experience, exploring what it is like to lose your hearing and--as Bella eventually did--to get...
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English
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"Some people are deaf. What does that mean? Using simple, engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn what deafness is, how it can be caused, and what daily life is like for someone who can't hear. This book includes a video, which launches via a 4D app."--Publisher.
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76 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear -- they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, these poems confronts our time's vicious atrocities...
5) Soundless
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271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
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"Desde que Fei puede recordar, en su pueblo nadie puede oír. El terreno rocoso y los aludes frecuentes hacen que sea imposible abandonar el pueblo, por lo que Fei y su gente están a merced de una línea con la que se izan los alimentos por los traicioneros acantilados desde Beiguo, un reino lejano y misterioso. Cuando los habitantes del pueblo empiezan a perder la vista, disminuye la cantidad de comida que llega por la línea. Muchos pasan hambre....
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637 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Baby-sitters Club) volume 12
Physical Desc
134 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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...
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