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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present,...
2) Razor girl
Author
Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an innocent accident is anything but. Behind the wheel of the offending car is Merry Mansfield -- the eponymous Razor Girl -- so named for her unique, eye-popping addition to what might be an otherwise unexciting scam. But, of course the scam is only the very beginning of a situation that's going to spiral crazily out of control while gathering in some...
3) I let you go
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street... I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators...
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people -- ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter -- depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs -- the painter -- and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
North Carolina deputy sheriff Miles Ryan, heartbroken over his wife's death in a hit-and-run accident two years earlier, considers love again when he meets his son's second-grade schoolteacher, Sarah -- but he soon finds that his wife's death was anything but an accident and danger is not far away.
8) Duma Key
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows, utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. But Gerry is also beginning to question his own competency. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent...
10) Winners: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily Thomas is an aspiring ski champion training for the Olympics, a young woman with her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily’s future is changed forever, her hopes for the Olympics swept away in a tragic accident. Dr. Jessie Matthews, the neurosurgeon who operates on her that night, endures a tragedy of her own, and instantly becomes the sole support of her four young children, while her own future hangs in the balance. Bill,...
12) If she wakes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Abby Kaplan investigates a suspicious accident that left a visiting professor dead and senior Tara Beckley a prisoner of locked-in-syndrome, she becomes a target of a mysterious hit man.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs....
14) Becoming Kate
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Lindsay, wife and mother of two, is in an auto accident. She awakens in a hospital with strangers calling her Kate. She learns that she perished in the accident and is the donor for the first successful brain transplant. Her mind and memories now reside in the body of eleven-year old Kate. She's not supposed to have a personal memory, but ... Elizabeth is faced with an overwhelming situation. How does she resolve her death and rebirth? How...
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (4 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A fourth installment of stories honoring those who continue to improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it. The stories illustrate evolution working through natural selection: those whose actions have lethal personal consequences are weeded out of the gene pool. When it comes to common sense, natural selection still has a long way to go.
Author
Series
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Revenge isn’t the only dish served cold... Ali Reynolds’s longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona highway. The girl had been running away from The Family, a polygamous cult with no patience for those who try to leave its ranks. Something about her strikes a chord in Sister Anselm, reminding her of a case...
17) Heroine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to...
Author
Series
Tessa Leoni novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
My name is Nicky Frank. Except, most likely, it isn’t. Nicole Frank shouldn’t have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: Vero. I’m looking for a little girl. I have to save her. Except, most likely, she doesn’t exist. Sergeant Wyatt Foster is frustrated when even the search dogs can’t...
Author
Publisher
Bay Back Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
264, 10 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Iversonś life changes in an instant. He returns home one day to find that his wife Lexy has died under strange circumstances. The only witness was their dog, Lorelei, whose anguished barking brought help to the scene--but too late...
Author
Publisher
Sudamericana
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
366 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Este es el libro definitivo sobre los sobrevivientes de los Andes. La historia más grande jamás contada. Cada sobreviviente da su testimonio en primera persona y cuenta cómo el accidente influyó en sus vidas, y cómo viven hoy. Intercalados con estos capítulos, Vierci recrea en forma escalofriante los momentos más importantes de la historia: la salida del aeropuerto de Montevideo, quienes no viajaron por llegar tarde o por estar enfermos, el...
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