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Lynnie, a woman with a developmental disability and limited speech who has fallen in love with deaf resident Homan while living at the Pennsylvania State School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, escapes with Homan and finds refuge in the home of widow Martha, and, before the authorities come to take her back to the school, Lynnie gives birth to a daughter and asks Martha to raise her, until forty years later when they are all given the opportunity...

After the tragic death of her husband, Aven Borgaard is beckoned to give up her life in Norway to become a housekeeper in the rugged hills of nineteenth-century Appalachia. Upon arrival, she finds herself in the home of her late husband's cousins - three brothers who make a living by brewing hard cider on their three-hundred acre farm. Yet even as a stranger in a foreign land, Aven has hope to build an new life in this tight-knit family. But her unassuming...

"Political games can be deadly...Elise Carmichael is a court sign language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lip reading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator's life - a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed...

Max takes a class in sign language so that he can talk with his friend, Susan, who cannot hear.

Set in early 20th-century North Dakota, this third series title (after A Promise for Ellie and Sophie's Dilemma) features 18-year-old Grace Knutson. Drawn to Toby Valders, Grace finds her loyalties tested when the son of a wealthy New York family arrives in town.

When he awakens caged and bound in a twisted zoo where otherworlders are the main attraction, black ops agent Solomon Judah discovers that the beautiful deaf girl tasked with his care and feeding is his destined mate--and that his feelings for her will be used against him.

"A FIRE. A MURDER. A SILENT SUSPECT... On a quiet street, one house is burning to the ground...By the time sign language interpreter Paige Northwood arrives, flames have engulfed her client's home. Though Lukas is safe, his wife is still inside. But she was dead before the fire started... Lukas signs to Paige that he knows who killed his wife. But then he goes silent - even when the police charge him with murder. Is he guilty, or afraid? Only Paige...

Nick, a deaf seventh grader, befriends a mysterious girl who is training and protecting a pack of valuable sheepdogs on her own.

In a class for the newly deaf, former musician Simon meets G and his quest to create an entirely new form of music helps him better understand her, himself, and his relationship to the hearing world.

Joanna Shupe returns to New York City’s Gilded Age, where fortunes and reputations are gained and lost with ease—and love can blossom from the most unlikely charade. With the fate of her disgraced family resting on her shoulders, Lady Christina Barclay has arrived in New York City from London to quickly secure a wealthy husband. But when her parents settle on an intolerable suitor, Christina turns to her reclusive neighbor, a darkly handsome and...