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1) The warning
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken and is being intentionally kept off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed...
2) If she wakes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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.
3) Keep quiet
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to maintain her sense of self and her understanding of the world while spending the first year of her marriage in Kenya, Margaret participates in a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya and is challenged to come to terms with a devastating accident.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident - until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon. Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick's death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : color illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time run out.
9) The current
Author
Language
English
Description
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene--half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community's memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined to...
10) Parting shot
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Language
English
Description
"After a tragedy rocks the community of Promise Falls, Cal Weaver is asked to investigate the threats being made to the accused's family. He's heard all about it on the news: the young man who drank too much, stole a Porsche and killed a girl, and who claimed afterwards not to remember a single thing. The whole town is outraged that he got off lightly, but for reasons Cal can't explain, he accepts the job. Then Cal finds himself caught up in a vicious...
11) Age of vice
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Physical Desc
548 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Binge-worthy reading at its best: an addictive, action-packed page-turner of epic proportions about the machinations of one dizzyingly wealthy family in contemporary India and the outsiders who are drawn into their treacherous web"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charles Vincent seems to have it all a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is trapped in a loveless marriage and his job is simply a paycheck. But his life changes forever one night as he drives along the Normandy coast, heading to their lavish ch�ateau for the weekend. In one terrifying moment, Charles falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road, plunging thirty feet down...
13) Sight unseen
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When her carefully honed sensory skills determine that a deadly accident on San Diego's historic Cabrillo Bridge is actually a murder scene, Kendra Michaels discovers a gruesome pattern of killings that mirror her most notorious cases.
14) The passenger
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box and the tenth passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
17) Before the fall
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stories of ten wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First William Morrow edition.
Physical Desc
414, 9 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Saved from a near-fatal car accident by a stranger, Margaret Holloway begins suffering chilling flashbacks from her childhood about the man who rescued her.
19) A simple faith
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a tragic accident occurs in a mixed community of Amish and non-Amish, it has the unexpected side effect of bringing two couples together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Megan Metzler assists pilot Bryce Saylor in the wake of a bush plane crash similar to the one that killed her husband, before an unknown adversary begins sabotaging Bryce's investigation in the Alaskan wilderness.