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Biographies/ Autobiographies

My Path Leads to Tibet
By Sabriye Tenberken (Arcade Publishing, 2003) 288 pages

Speaking rudimentary Chinese and Tibetan, Sabriye Tenberken came to Tibet on a horseback, seeking out the blind, who had been abandoned by the society. She devised a Braille alphabet in Tibetan, brought in canes and set up a school for blind children. Her story demonstrates anew the power of the positive spirit to overcome the most daunting odds.

And There Was Light
By Jacques Lusseyran (Morning Light Press, 1998) 316 pages

Jacques Lusseyran, who turned blind at the age of 8, recounted in this book his participation in the French resistance against the Nazi invasion and his experience in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The autobiography is one of USAToday’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century.

Non-fiction
Everyday Legends: the Stories of 20 Great UK Social Entrepreneurs
by James Baderman and Justine Law (York: WW Publishing, 2006) 128 pages

20 stories of innovative and passionate minds – a great introduction to social entrepreneurship. Easy to read too!

I and Thou
by Martin Buber; translation by Walter Kaufmann (Free Press, 1971) 192 pages

Read the philosopher who has inspired Andreas Heinecke.

 

Novels
Of Such Small Difference
by Joanne Greenberg (Thorndike Press) Large print, 434 pages

John, who lives alone in Denver, is blind and deaf. A worker in the “workshop” and a poet, he has fallen in love with the sighted, hearing Leda, an actress who is accused by his friends for using him. The love story of John and Leda recounts their struggle to overcome materialistic obstacles as well as dangerous mental constructs.

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