Novels featuring Deaf characters
All of these novels, or stories, involve some characters who are deaf. All of the books are available to be borrowed from the Northenden Learning Centre. You will find them on the upper level of the Learning Centre in the Fiction section. Remember that fiction books are filed on the Library shelves in alphabetical order of the author's surname.
- Eloquent Silence by Sandra BROWN
- A teacher of the Deaf, a TV presenter, a Deaf child in a New Mexico arts community. Each with a dark secret in their past.
- Loving April by Melvin BURGESS
- April cannot speak but needs a friend; so does Tony. It is not easy to break through the prejudice that threatens them.
- The Deaf mute boy by Joseph GERACI
- Maurice Burke, a gay American professor, is invited to speak at a conference in Tunisia. He becomes involed with a local deaf-mute boy and finds himself drawn into a maze of Tunisian politics, culture and religion.
- In this sign by Joanne GREENBERG
- A period novel set in the 1930's. Details the life of a deaf family with hearing children. Later made into a TV movie, "Love is Never Silent."
- A Season of change by Lois HODGE
- People believe that because Biney cannot hear she cannot think; but when a friend hurts himself she proves just how much she can do.
- Read my lips by Jana Novotny HUNTER
- The deaf city war has been going on too long! It's time for signers and speakers to learn to live together.
- Deafening by Frances ITANI
- Grania is deaf and learns sign language from her friend Jim who is sent to the battlefields of Flanders in the First World War.
- The Raging quiet by Sherryl JORDAN
- Marnie and Raver are outcasts who develop their own sign language. The villagers misunderstand and put Marnie on trial as a witch.
- Can you feel the thunder by Lynn McELFRESH
- Mic Parsons and his deaf-blind older sister Stephanie live on the weirdest street in America...
- Black gold by Charles O'BRIEN
- Tragedy looms near in this tale of the elegant Georgian city of Bath.
- Mute witness by Charles O'BRIEN
- The eve of the French Revolution, picture the Scarlett Pimpernell as a woman...
- The Silent war by Victor PEMBERTON
- The lives of two deaf women as they come of age during the Second World War.
- Belonging by Virginia SCOTT
- Gustie had it all - cheerleader, grade A student; then an illness left her deaf and hef life changed for good.
- Finding Abby by Virginia SCOTT
- Called home to investigate the death hearing impaired Abby, her sister makes unsettling discoveries.
- An Equal music by Vikram SETH
- A pianist is going deaf but has not told the friend who come to see her.
- Milan by Nick STURLEY
- An unknown force called MILAN transforms the British Deaf community into hearing people and sign language nearly dies out. Two Deaf survivors try to destroy MILAN before it destroys them.
- A Quiet undertaking by Penny WARNER
- Deaf journalist Connor is shocked to find boxes of human ashes in a storage facility in the California town of Flat Skunk.
- Right to remain silent by Penny WARNER
- Deaf journalist Connor investigates the death of Sparkle Bodie who comes bacxk to life at the funeral parlour.
- Sign of foul play by Penny WARNER
- Deaf newswomen Connor investigates when a twisted corpse is found on a construction site.
- The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard ZIMLER
- A talented young manuscript illuminator investigates the death of his uncle in Lisbon of 1506.