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Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller by Kim E Nielsen Publisher Comments After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Cockeyed (06 Edition) by Ryan Knighton Publisher Comments On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Helen Keller: A Life by Dorothy Herrmann Publisher Comments Dorothy Herrmann's powerful biography of Helen Keller tells the whole story of the controversial and turbulent relationship between Helen and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Herrmann also chronicles Helen's doomed love affair, her struggles to earn a living,... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisible by Hugues De Montalembert Publisher Comments “You live in a city like New York. You read the papers. You look at the television. But you never think it will happen to you. It happened to me one evening.” One summer night in 1978, Hugues de Montalembert returned home to his New York City... (read more) Your price: $13.00 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Miracle Worker by Kim E. Nielsen Publisher Comments After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $16.86 Google eBooks - Electronic
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God, Money, and Politics: English Attitudes to Blindness and Touch, from the Enlightenment to Integration (PB) by Simon Hayhoe Synopsis Our book examines the role of three factors, God, Money, and Politics, in theepistemological theory of blindness, (the theory of the construction of knowledgeon blindness and touch by social and cultural change). This book also illustratesthis... (read more) List Price $57.25 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Helen Keller :a life by Dorothy Herrmann Publisher Comments A full-scale biography that takes us beyond the image of Helen Keller as the young girl portrayed in The Miracle Worker and brings to life the complex woman whose private self has until now been shrouded in legend. Helen Keller couldn't hear, couldn't... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The World I Live in and Optimism: A Collection of Essays (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Helen Keller Publisher Comments These poetic, inspiring essays offer remarkable insights into the world of a gifted woman who was deaf and blind. Helen Keller relates her impressions of the world's beauty and promise, perceived through the sensations of touch, smell, and vibration... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller by Kim E Nielsen Publisher Comments After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Kellers teacher and mythologized as a... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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God, Money, and Politics: English Attitudes to Blindness and Touch, from the Enlightenment to Integration by Simon Hayhoe Publisher Comments Our book examines the role of three factors, God, Money, and Politics, in the epistemological theory of blindness, (the theory of the construction of knowledge on blindness and touch by social and cultural change). This book also illustrates this... (read more) List Price $36.80 Your price: $32.66 Google eBooks - Electronic
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My Maggie by Richard King Publisher Comments My Maggie is the story of a woman who overcame enormous odds to live a happy and fulfilling life. She suffered from three different cancers in her life and also battled a rare disease called Usher Syndrome, which slowly took away her sight and hearing... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic by Helen Keller Publisher Comments The story of Helen Keller, who triumphed over deafness and blindness and became "a symbol of the indomitable human spirit," is now considered one of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library).... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson Staff Pick Crashing Through is the remarkable story of Mike May, one of only a handful of people to gain sight after being blinded in an accident at age three. Robert Kurson (of Shadow Divers fame) does a wonderful job depicting both May's extraordinary life up... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Invisible: A Memoir by Hugues De Montalembert Publisher Comments The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen“You live in a city like New York. You read the papers. You look at the television. But you... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cockeyed by Ryan Knighton Publisher Comments This irreverent, tragicomic, astoundingly articulate memoir about going blind — and growing up — illuminates both the author's reality and our own. On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a congenital... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Helen Keller (Women Who Dare) by Aimee Hess Publisher Comments Illuminates the fascinating and inspiring life of Keller, with 42 exceptional color and black-white-images.... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Story of My Life (Dover Thrift Editions) by Helen Keller Publisher Comments Great story of human courage and dedication recounted in autobiography of a remarkable woman: the magical moment when Miss Keller first recognizes the connection between words and objects, her joy at learning how to speak, friendships with notable... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson Publisher Comments Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Story of My Life by Helen Keller Publisher Comments The Story of My Life is Helen Keller's own account of how she miraculously triumphed over blindness and deafness-and became one of the most inspiring and intriguing figures of our time.... (read more) Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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How I Would Help the World by Helen Keller List Price $11.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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