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1) Overkill
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she's pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm...
3) No way out
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie Bowman barely remembers the incident that put her into a coma. When she awoke, filled with unease, all she knew for certain was that her boyfriend, Rick, was missing. She knew she needed to get away from her old life and recover in safety. With the proceeds of a video game she helped develop, Ellie starts over in rural Missouri, working from her cottage and trusting no one except her friend and business partner. Yet even in this quiet small...
5) The whispers
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens--and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night. Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party...
Author
Series
Wildstone novels volume 7
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Starting a new life after waking up from a coma, Emma Harris finds her plans of opening up a doggy day care derailed by her childhood nemesis, but she soon learns that life isn't what you are given, it's what you make of it.
8) If I stay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, ponders whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
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Language
English
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"Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam--a thirteen-year old synesthete with an...
10) Waiting for Eden
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A veteran enduring life trapped in his own mind begins to find a way to communicate before troubling realities about his marriage come to the surface.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"William Paul Young ... tells a story of the incremental transformation of a man caught in the torments of his own creation, somewhere between heaven and earth."--Provided by the publisher
14) Sometimes I lie
Author
Language
English
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Description
Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. Though she can hear everyone around her, no one knows because she's in a coma. But she doesn't remember what happened. And she has a sneaking suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, the narratives build and collide for an...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her body shattered by a devastating car accident, Casey lies in a hospital bed able to hear but not communicate and discovers that the people nearest to her are not who she thought them to be and her accident may have been a setup.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how Donny Herbert, a firefighter injured in the line of duty, awakened after a decade in a persistent vegetative state, allowing friends and family to reconnect with him over the course of a single day before he suffered a partial relapse.
18) The dead zone
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (975 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people's futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiance married another man during his coma and people clamor for him to solve their problems. When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change...
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. Part classic noir thriller, part fabulist fable, it is the story of Sweeney and his comatose son, Danny. Hoping for a miracle, Sweeney has brought Danny to the fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have "resurrected" patients who were similarly lost in the void. but the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a comic book world beloved by Danny...
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Language
English
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"Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. You see, every so often Carol descends into a death-like coma that she calls the Black Place. For two to four days her heartbeat slows way down, her breathing all but stops, and to the eyes of all she would appear dead as a doornail. Only two people know of her condition: her husband Dwight, and her former lover James Moxie--the most legendary outlaw the Trail has ever seen. Just before Carol can share her...