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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fall in love with this small-town love story about a widower sheriff and a divorced schoolteacher who are searching for second chances — only to be threatened by long-held secrets of the past.Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown...
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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 he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes 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....
4) Remember me?
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Language
English
Description
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament….
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are...
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are...
Author
Series
Tessa Leoni novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
A woman's near-fatal car accident and entreaties about a missing child prove baffling to Sergeant Wyatt Foster when the woman's husband claims that she has suffered a brain injury and cannot be believed.
6) I let you go
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.
7) Duma Key
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Fiction
Master storyteller Stephen King's classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached.
After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle's right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and...
Master storyteller Stephen King's classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached.
After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle's right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and...
Author
Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Involved in a car accident with a scam artist, a man helplessly watches his life spiral out of control following subsequent interactions with a sand-stealing company, a mafia capo, a reality show accordionist, and other eccentric characters.
10) Blame
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two years after a car crash killed her friend and left her with amnesia, Jane Norton receives an online message from someone claiming to know what really happened that night, but her search for the truth puts many lives in danger.
11) Wish you well
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sent with their invalid mother to the rugged mountains of 1940 southwestern Virginia, Lou and her young brother Oz follow a relentless but critical legal battle while encountering prejudice, innocence, greed, and faith in their new home.
12) Any bitter thing
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Language
English
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Description
Richard Russo has celebrated Monica Wood's fiction as 'thoroughly captivating...warm and wise and beautifully written,' and Andre Dubus III praised it as 'luminous and graceful...entertaining yet transcendent.' Any Bitter Thing, Wood's brilliant new novel, is her breakout book, a timely, gripping, and compassionate tale of family, faith, and deeply hidden truths. One of its greatest strengths is its continuous ability to defy expectations.
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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.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect, then she's in a terrible accident... and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can't feed or dress herself. She can't even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with 24 hour care. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria's husband to help care for her. But...
16) River Road
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wrongly accused in the hit-and-run accident that has killed a favorite student, a creative writing professor is shunned by the same community that once rallied around her when her own daughter was killed in an eerily similar accident six years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Filled with sorrow over the fatal car accident of his wife and their unborn child, John Bevan erects a small cross near the scene of the accident and then withdraws from life and love. But when he encounters a young man kneeling before the cross, touching it up with white paint. John's conversations and travels with this mysterious man--known to him only as the Cross Gardener--forever change his world.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected accident cuts his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Chris Nielsen must discover the nature of life after death, but when tragedy threatens to divide Chris and Annie forever, he risks his very soul to save her from an eternity of despair.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
One year following their deaths in a late-night car accident, teenagers Danielle, Marco, and Toe return, in spirit. Over the course of the evening, the three will drift into and out of the lives of those who knew and loved them. None is more affected than Tim, survivor of the crash, who plots a grisly act of remembrance, and Brooks, the well-intentioned police officer who first responded to the crash and whose life has changed in startling ways since....
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