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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living' landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his...
2) Kiss
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a car accident puts Shauna McAllister in a coma and wipes out six months of her memory, she tries to sort out what happened that night by jarring her memory to life. Instead, she acquires a mysterious mental ability that will either lead her to truth or get her killed by the people trying to hide it.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Warm, wise, and magicalthe latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death. 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,...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Complex, philosophically searching, and gorgeously rendered, Rebekah Bergman's The Museum of Human History is a sharp and startling debut about a young girl frozen in time in a world obsessed with youth and self-preservation. After nearly drowning, eight-year-old Maeve Wilhelm falls into a strange comatose state. As years pass, it becomes clear that Maeve is not physically aging. A wide cast of characters finds themselves pulled toward Maeve, each...
5) The whispers
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Language
English
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"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 hears...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are back, and struggling in the emotional aftermath of the events that brought them to the brink in Hour Game. Dogged by personal demons, Maxwell agrees to treatment in a psychiatric institution after barely surviving a violent barroom brawl. And King, to right their partnership, accepts an offer to investigate a murder in a scientific think tank named Babbage Town. Feeling cured, Michelle joins him on the case, and...
8) Irises
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate, eighteen, and Mary, sixteen, must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their loving but old-fashioned father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a persistant vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A slight error left Olympic diving-hopeful Bryce Graham in a five-year coma and now, at at twenty-two, she must adjust to a world that went on without her and to visions that may or may not be real.
Author
Series
Fever Devilin mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After a brutal attack and a months-long coma, Fever Devilin wakes up to discover that the would-be killer was seeking a blue tin box that contained the photo of an angel--and that the killer is still out there.
12) Diary: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working as a hotel maid despite her dreams of being an artist, Misty keeps a diary as she sits by the side of her husband, comatose after a suicide attempt, which unlocks Misty's creative energies and causes her to paint compulsively.
13) Dust to dust
Author
Series
Ashes to ashes volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
After surviving a tragic accident, sixteen-year-old Callie McPhee wakes up from a coma with knowledge of the afterlife where she met Thatcher, the spirit who protected her, and can help her save the people she loves from the menace of evil spirits.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after Vivien, his beloved transgender girlfriend, slipped into a coma after a suicide attempt, eighteen-year-old Miles begins healing while photographing her empty shoes against the stark landscapes of Iceland. Told through a series of instant messages.
16) Demonic
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Carly still has nightmares about her estranged mother, Angela, who committed a series of inexplicable murders decades earlier. Now in a comatose state after a head injury, Anglela is in a medical research facility. Carly reluctantly agreees to be part of an experimental trial to make contact with her mother through a state-of-the-art virtual reality simulator. Once in her mother's mindscape, she unwittingly unleashes terrifying demons that have...
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