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141) Making history
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Story of a family who has achieved the L.A. dream of affluent happiness and of what happens when their world is shattered by a series of random accidents.
142) The lies I told
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a recent car crash erases 10 days of her memories, photographer Marisa, whose twin sister was murdered 14 years ago, struggles to remember everything, soon discovering that putting the pieces together of her accident-and her sister's death-could be fatal."--
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
As powerful now as when first published in 1983, Lynne Sharon Schwartz's third novel established her as one of her generation's most assured writers. In this long-awaited reissue, readers can again warm to this acutely absorbing story. According to Lydia Rowe's friend George, a philosophizing psychotherapist, a "disturbance in the field" is anything that keeps us from realizing our needs. In the field of daily experiences, anything can stand in the...
144) Loving Lovina
Author
Series
Infamous Amish ; 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With the latest book in her Infamous Amish series, Patricia Johns crafts an uplifting, sensitive story about a young woman striving to reclaim the promise of love and community after losing her memory in an accident. As she navigates her old life where everything is unfamiliar, can she rediscover her guiding faith and reconnect with the steadfast young man to whom she is engaged and build a hopeful future? When the peaceful Amish community of Bountiful,...
145) Crashing into you
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Leti Rivera's love of street racing is put to the test when tragedy strikes her family and threatens to tear her apart from the boy she is falling for"--
146) The pact
Author
Publisher
Trapeze
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favor', payable on her release from prison. Twenty years later Megan is free. Let the games begin."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On her way from singing in church to hooking up with a Tinder date, Brittany Lynn Snider crashes her momma's minivan, and her life is changed forever. One moment she's texting HotGuyNate, and in the next she's at a hospital in El Paso watching doctors operate on her near-lifeless body. If that wasn't bad enough, she finds herself trapped in the Limbo Lounge where patients await their fate, playing cards and watching reruns of 7th Heaven and Heaven...
148) Learning to fly
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Free Meeker has a shaved head, a nose ring, and a tattoo of Chinese characters around her biceps. She has a career, if you can call it that, as a pet groomer. And she has just learned that she is pregnant and that her boyfriend is a two-timing bastard."--Jacket
149) Bump
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A black comedy explores the line separating love and obsession in a story that begins in the aftermath of a three-car pileup in Los Angeles and intertwines the lives of a trio of motorists and a police officer.
150) Rebel revealed
Author
Series
Time of death ; 5
Publisher
EPIC Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After learning that he's more interrwined with the mysterious Seres than he could have ever imagined, Kyle sets off on a collision course with Ayers. The hunt for his nearly invincible enemy forces Kyle to consider exacdy how lar he's willing to go to set the time stream back on its proper course." --
151) Collision
Author
Publisher
Kristen Granata
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After losing both of her parents, Merritt Adams was forced to grow up. Now a bitter and jaded adult, she's convinced that the only person she can count on is herself. When she's injured in a fiery crash, Merritt has to learn how to accept help from her friends. But she isn't prepared for support from the popular musician she used to go to school with.
Chase Brooks spent the last two years in California aspiring to become a rock star, but his dream...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto the wrong side of the road and causes an accident. He is arrested and incarcerated, forcing his mother and sister to reconnect and pick up the pieces in order to fight for his release"--
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Concrete Island pays twisted homage to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman. On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland--a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe--realizes...
154) Travesty
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
In the south of France, an elegant sportscar is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the "privileged man" justifies, in sustained monologue, his firm persuasion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination.
155) The wife before me
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprints of StoryFire Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"One evening as the sun is setting, Amelia Madison's car slides into the sea off Mason's Pier. Her body is never found. Two years later, Elena Langdon meets Nicholas Madison. She is grieving the loss of her mother, he is grieving for his wife. Together they can help each other. Now Elena is living with Nicholas. But Elena doesn't really know him. She doesn't know what he is capable of. And she doesn't know what really happened to Amelia. Until the...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of holiday romances and Amish life comes a new Christmas tale of surprising expectations and discovering miracles. Old Order Amish Ivy Zook is wrestling with her need to shed her community's ways so she can grow the business of her dreams: planning parties. As long as she's stuck living without modernization, she can barely get her business on its feet. But if she leaves too soon, she'd cause trouble for her sister, Holly, who is planning...
157) Bodies of water
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1960, Billie Valentine is a young housewife living in a sleepy Massachusetts suburb, treading water in a dull marriage and caring for two adopted daughters. Summers spent with the girls at their lakeside camp in Vermont are her one escape - from her husband's demands, from days consumed by household drudgery, and from the nagging suspicion that life was supposed to hold something different. Then a new family moves in across the street. Ted and...
158) The blade phenomenon
Author
Series
Time of death ; 4
Publisher
Epic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"What if you were betrayed by the people who raised you? Exhausted and barely conscious, Allaire fights for her life beneath the rubble of a fallen building. As her time runs out, she replays the events from her past, including her time working with the Seres, descendants of an ancient tribe responsible for protecting the time tunnel, and the very fabric of time itself. Nearing her final breath, she wonders if Kyle is the world s last chance of survival."...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Happiness is relative. For single mother Natalie Greene, that relative is her stepsister, Isabel Walker, known as The Happiness Guru. But even with Isabel's guidance, Natalie can't control her recently re-triggered PTSD over her mother's death in a car crash years ago. The old dread. The nightmares. And that all-consuming, terrifying thought: I think I killed my mother. But did she? And if not, who did?
160) The distance home
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen years ago, a tragic accident cost Emma Metz her two best friends--one human and one equine. Now, following her father's death, Emma has reluctantly returned to the Maryland hometown she'd left under a cloud of guilt. Sorting through her father's affairs, Emma uncovers a history of lies tying her broken family to the one place she thought she could never return--her girlhood sanctuary, Jumping Frog Farm. Emma finds herself drawn back to the...
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