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• Engaging the Senses - Summer Adventure 2024

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  Alameda County Library invites people of all ages and abilities to come along for our 2024 Summer Adventure: Engaging the Senses! Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries. Pick up an Adventure Guide at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Only the Beautiful

  Meissner, Susan, 1961-

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  When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's spacious house with a secret,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Light We Cannot See

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  Doerr, Anthony, 1973-

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  When Marie Laure is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane.

• The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder

  Harris, Sarah J., 1971-

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  A captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia--a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds--who tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful neighbor, and if he was ultimately responsible.

• The Silence Between Us

  Gervais, Alison,

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  Maya has reservations about transferring to a hearing school after studying in a school for the deaf for years, but grows closer to Beau Watson, the student body president, who starts learning sign language to communicate with her.

• Our Colors

  Tagame, Gengoroh, 1964-

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  Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda: a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synaesthetic hues of blues and reds, and is governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager

• Blink of An Eye

  Johansen, Iris,

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  Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life. Then she gained her sight through a revolutionary surgical procedure. Her former disability has left her incredibly observant and insightful -- able to detect what other investigators…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ultraviolet

  Anderson, R. J. (Rebecca J.)

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  Alison, 16, has been in a residential treatment facility for seriously disturbed teen patients ever since her beautiful, popular classmate, Tori, disappeared. Confused, conflicted, fighting the deadening effects of medication, Alison is desperate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whispers of the Dead

  Kope, Spencer,

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  Magnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are especially indispensable, Steps is renowned for his incredible ability to find and follow trails over any surface…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Give Me a Sign

  Sortino, Anna,

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  Sortino celebrates Deaf culture and identity in this endearingly funny slow-burn rom-com debut.

• Color Blind

  Marshall, Colby,

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  There is something unusual about Dr. Jenna Ramey's brain. Dr. Ramey has grapheme-color synesthesia, a rare perceptual quirk that punctuates her experiences with flashes of color. They are hard to explain: red can mean anger, or love, or strength.…Read moreRead more of this annotation