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author: Kamara, Mariatu
Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her story garnered international interest and assistance, which eventually brought her to Toronto. Her autobiography testifies to Kamara's horrific trauma, but with the aim of fostering hope and reconciliation.
Defying everyoneís advice, armed only with her rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan, Sabriye Tenberken set out to do something about the appalling condition of the Tibetan blind, who she learned had been abandoned by society and left to die. Traveling on horseback throughout the country, she sought them out, devised a Braille alph...
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American mus...
Birding and traveling as a child and later an adult who is blind, Imbar Golt tells of her experiences in countries all around the world. Sounds, smells and tastes fill these stories of love from people and nature itself. Adventures of growing up blind in a sighted society and later travels and experiences birding with many people in many ...
Memories of a visually impaired woman adopted into a family plagued with Domestic violence, Mental illness and Addiction. Age eleven she's told of her adoption. She sets out to find her birth parents. In doing so, discovers her identity. Her soul battles against the influences of her environment. A war is waged in order to replace her tru...
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