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Top 10 Books with Deaf Characters |
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True biz : a novel
by Sara Noviâc
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both at the same time. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another--and changed forever. This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
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The Sign for Home
by Blair Fell
Arlo Dilly, deaf, blind, a Jehovah's Witness and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle, sets out, with his gay interpreter and his wildly inappropriate Belgian best friend, to find the love of his life, who he thought he lost forever. 100,000 first printing.
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Echo: The Saga of Maya Lopez
by David Mack
She is Echo. A deaf young Native American woman with the uncanny ability to assimilate the skills of others by sight. Dancing, piano playing...even hand-to-hand combat! Though Maya Lopez and Matt Murdock meet as seemingly kindred souls, their secret identities are very much at odds. For Maya is seeking vengeance against her father's killer, a man that the Kingpin claims...is Daredevil! Can Matt clear his name before his new love becomes his executioner? And with Echo's entire history defined by her quest for justice and revenge, can she make sense of the world when everything she thought she knew is called into question? And will a vision quest help pick up the pieces of her shattered life?
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In This Sign
by Joanne Greenberg
Deaf since birth, Abel Ryder grows up misunderstood and forced to learn to speak. It is not until he's sent from his rural hometown to a school for deaf students that he's exposed to Sign, opening his eyes to the richness of language and leading him to Janice, a fellow deaf student whose command over words enamors him.
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A Sign of Affection
by Christine Dashiell
Yuki is Deaf and a typical college student, whose world revolves around her friends, social media, and the latest sales. But when a chance encounter on a train leads to her meeting friend-of-a-friend and fellow student Itsuomi, her world starts to widen.But even though Itsuomi can speak three languages, sign language isn't one of them. Can the two learn to communicate the budding feelings between them?
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On the Bright Side
by Anna Sortino
When eighteen-year-old Ellie's Deaf boarding school shuts down, she attends a public high school where she struggles to adjust, but finds an ally in Jackson, a soccer player going through a disability diagnosis of his own.
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Give Me a Sign
by Anna Sortino
Ready for a change, Lilah, who suffers from hearing loss, becomes a counselor at a summer camp for the deaf and blind where she finds a community and a gorgeous Deaf counselor who volunteers to help her with her signing, stealing her heart in the process. Simultaneous eBook.
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The Hearing Test
by Eliza Barry Callahan
Diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, an artist in her late twenties keeps a record of her year—one filled with a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters—as she reorients her relationship to the world while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.
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Interesting Facts About Space
by Emily Austin
A woman obsessed with space and true crime podcasts begins a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of their absent father and begins to become increasingly paranoid that someone is following her.
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The Loudest Silence
by Sydney Langford
Two disabled queer teens, Casey, who's trying to conceal her hearing loss from her new classmates, and soccer captain Hayden, whose Generalized Anxiety Order stops him from telling his parents he wants to pursue a career on Broadway, form an intimate, platonic friendship that changes everything.
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