Read My Lips: Memorable Deaf Fictional Characters
Books recommended by editors at Library Journal
 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter McCullers, Carson 2004-04 - Mariner Books 9780618526413 Check Our Catalog An Oprah's Book Club selection With the depression as a murky backdrop, this first novel depicts the bleak landscape of the American consciousness below the Mason-Dixon line. Miss McCullers' picture of loneliness, death, accident, insanity, fear, mob violence and terror is perhaps the most desolate that has so far come from the South. Her quality of despair is unique and individual; and it seems to me more natural and authentic than that of Faulkner. Her groping characters live in a world more completely lost than any Sherwood Anderson ever dreamed of. And she recounts incidents of death and attitudes of stoicism in sentences whose neutrality makes Hemingway's terse prose seem warm and partisan by comparison. Hovering mockingly over her story of loneliness in a small town are primitive religion, adolescent hope, the silence of deaf mutes - and all of these give the violent colors of the life she depicts a sheen of weird tenderness. …More |
 | Keeping Silent Damron, Carla 2002-05 - Worldwide Library 9780373264216 Check Our Catalog Deaf since the age of 16, acclaimed sculptor Sam Knowles is accused of murdering his fiance. South Carolina social worker Caleb Knowles believes his brother's innocence, knowing Sam could never hurt the woman he loved. But Sam, battling demons Caleb cannot understand, withdraws into a hard shell, leaving Caleb to solve the crime, save his brother, and expose a killer. (May) …More |
 | Murder on Lexington Avenue Thompson, Victoria 2010-06 - Berkley Prime Crime 9780425234372 Check Our Catalog 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. …More |
 | Silence Is Golden Warner, Penny 2003-10 - Perseverance Press 9781880284667 Check Our Catalog Old prospector Sluice Jackson appears to have struck it rich with the discovery of a tooth-sized gold nugget. But when Flat Skunk starts turning up dead bodies instead, Connor Westphal digs for the story behind her headlines--and finds all that glitters isn't gold. …More |
 | In This Sign Greenberg, Joanne 1984-09 - Owl Books (NY) 9780805007220 Check Our Catalog The highly acclaimed novel of a family whose love and courage enable them to survive in the silent world of the deaf. …More |
 | Talk Talk Boyle, T. Coraghessan 2007-07 - Penguin Books 9780143112150 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author and PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Boyle recasts the battle of good and evil as an identity theft suspense story. As the tension mounts, Boyle drops crumbs of wisdom in his signature style, leading readers along a mysterious trail. …More |
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