Adult Braille Books – Fiction
Disabled Fiction
BR73908
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan.
4 v. of braille.
Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a day hospital in North London. N has been a patient here for thirteen years; day after day N sits smoking in the common room, swapping medication and comparing MAD money rates. Like all the patients at the Dorothy Fish, N's chief ambition is never to be discharged, until Poppy Shakespeare turns up and things begin to change. Strong language. 2006.
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Family Stories (Fiction)
BR74520
Soucouyant by David Chariandy.
2 v. of braille.
Said to wear the skin of an old woman by day and take the form of a wandering fireball by night - and sucking the blood of her victims - the spectre of the Soucouyant haunts Adele, a Trinidadian Canadian. Adele is sliding into early-onset dementia when her husband is killed in an industrial accident, and her older son leaves home after Adele ceases to recognize him. Her younger son tries to unravel the hidden tragedies of Adele's youth, which included an encounter with the Soucouyant itself. Some descriptions of sex. Some descriptions of violence. Some strong language. 2007.
BR73630
A wall of light by Edeet Ravel.
3 v. of braille.
This is the story of one remarkable day in the life of Sonya Vronsky, a mathematics professor; on this day she kissed a student, pursued a lover, found her father and left her brother. Sonya's life-changing journey leads her to the heart of Jerusalem and to the heart of family secrets. 2005. (Tel Aviv trilogy ; 3)
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BR74039
The friends of meager fortune by David Adams Richards.
4 v. of braille.
Postwar New Brunswick. Mary Jameson, the widow of a lumber magnate, hopes to stymie the prophecy she receives from a fortune-teller - that her oldest son will be powerful and her younger son will bring glory upon the family, but they will be the end of the family. When Will, the brash older brother, suffers a fatal logging accident, and Owen, the intellectual younger son, returns a wounded hero from WWII, it seems the prophecy may come true. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2006.
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Fantastic Fiction
BR74284
The twilight watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
5 v. of braille.
An Other has exposed the truth about their kind to a human, and now intends to convert that human into an Other. Now cooperating, the Night Watch and the Day Watch, along with an Investigator from the Inquisition, seek to unmask the culprit. Anton will represent the Night Watch, while the Day Watch is sending High Vampire Kostya Saushkin, once Anton's teenage neighbour. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "Day watch" (BR74268). Followed by "The last watch" (BR74628). 2004, c1998. (Watch ; 3)
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General Fiction
BR74350
The communist's daughter by Dennis Bock.
3 v. of braille.
Battlefield surgeon Norman Bethune - when not tending to Mao's starving army - is diligently writing a philosophical yet jarringly frank memoir for the daughter he has never seen. His musings over bombs, blood, betrayals, and lost love offer little in the way of comfort, providing trenchant insights into human nature instead. They reflect the troubled soul of a war-weary idealist whose dreams of a better world were battered by ugly reality. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.
BR74618
The cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway.
2 v. of braille.
Sarajevo, 1992. A cellist plays Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor as a memorial on each of twenty-two days following a mortar attack that kills twenty-two citizens who are standing in a bread line. The music deeply affects a sniper, a father, and an older man. Inspired by historic events. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2008.
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BR74450
Rose of no man's land by Michelle Tea.
3 v. of braille.
With a hypochondriac mother, an older sister who dreams of being on reality TV, and Mom's live-in, unemployed slacker boyfriend passing for a family, it's no wonder Trisha is a loner. Tiring of never leaving her bedroom, the 14-year-old makes a plan for the summer: meet someone and make a friend. That friend turns out to be chain-smoking Rose, the classic dangerous friend, who introduces Trisha to life on the edge. Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and explicit strong language. 2005.
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Love Stories (Fiction)
BR74776
After that night by Ann Evans.
4 v. of braille.
Jenna Rawlins is a straitlaced kind of woman, but on the one night she allows herself to be seduced, she becomes pregnant. Trying to claim her independence from her overprotective family, she's determined to have the baby alone - after all, she's successfully raising two boys by herself after kicking out her good-for-nothing husband. Meanwhile, Mark Bishop has discovered Jenna's condition and wants to be part of his child's life, but Jenna doesn't believe the confirmed bachelor is up to the challenge. Some descriptions of sex. 2003. (Harlequin superromance ; 1136)
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The mommy quest by Lori Handeland.
3 v. of braille, uncontracted.
Life has never been easy for Tim. Abandoned and left to fend for himself, he's finally found a home with Dean Luchetti. But something's missing - Tim thinks he needs a mother and Dean needs a wife, and he's got the perfect candidate in Stella O'Connell, his school's principal. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006. (Harlequin superromance ; 1334)
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BR74373
The English air by D. E. Stevenson.
4 v. of braille.
A gentle romance set in the English countryside during the first frenzied months of World War II. Franz von Heiden, son of a high Nazi official and an English mother who died when he was a child, falls in love with Wynne Braithwaite. 1968, c1940.
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Mysteries (Fiction)
BR74366
Special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pessl.
9 v. of braille.
Blue Van Meer, erudite daughter of an itinerant professor, settles into Stockton, North Carolina, for her senior year in an elite high school. But she is unprepared for the death of a favourite teacher and some startling truths about her own family. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller. 2006.
BR74558
A sensitive case by Eric Wright.
2 v. of braille.
When Linda Thomas, a massage therapist with influential clients, is murdered, Inspector Charlie Salter must handle the sensitive case. He is delighted when Sergeant Mel Pickett, an expert at homicides, is assigned to help with the case. Some strong language. 1991, c1990.
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Science Fiction
BR73813
Shadow of the giant by Orson Scott Card.
4 v. of braille.
Bean, who faces death from gigantism, and Petra, his wife, search for their missing children. Meanwhile Bean is given hope of surviving his disease if he helps Hegemon Peter unite the world. Sequel to "Shadow Puppets". Some violence and some strong language. 2005. (Ender's saga ; 8)
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Short Stories
BR74406
Moral disorder by Margaret Atwood.
3 v. of braille.
Interconnected short stories that span the life of a skeptical, stoic, book-loving woman named Nell, from age 11, where she awaits the birth of an unexpected sibling, to her eventual marriage and life on a farm. Atwood dissects the demands of family, the persistence of sexism, the siege of old age, and the complex temperaments of other species. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2006.
BR74436
The Penguin book of contemporary Canadian women's short stories edited by Lisa Moore.
5 v. of braille.
Featuring writings from the last two decades, which capture the paranoia of post-9/11, the white noise of the information age, dislocation, bomb scares, sexual freedom, aberration, fractured identities, awakenings of every sort, redemption, and love. Includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, and Eden Robinson. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.
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War Stories (Fiction)
BR74534
Chronicle in stone by Ismail Kadaré ; translated from the French of Tedi Papavrami by David Bellos.
2 v. of braille.
In this autobiographical novel, the confusion and terror of World War II are portrayed through the eyes of a small boy, as his Albanian city is occupied and besieged. He introduces his parents, grandparents, and friends, and relates their suffering under enemy rule, inadvertently revealing the childlike naïveté that dominates the entire population of his secluded, mountain world. Some descriptions of violence. 2007, c1971.
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