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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she's pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia's wrists. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia's fall an accident, Abi decides to find out what really happened that night. Heartbroken...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Mia tiene diecisiete anos, un hermano pequeno de ocho, un padre musico y el don de tocar el chelo como los angeles. Muy pronto se examinara para entrar en la prestigiosa escuela Juilliard, en Nueva York, y, si la admiten, debera dejarlo todo: su ciudad, su familia, su novio y sus amigas. Aunque el chelo es su pasion, la decision la inquieta desde hace semanas.
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006, 2005.
Language
English
Description
After being hit by a car Sam Palmer finds himself in Aurobon, a land of giant insects where some of the inhabitants are working to keep Earth's ecology in balance while others are trying to wipe out humankind with a lethal virus spread by mosquitoes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The small town of Harrod's Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel's entrance, each left with strange calling cards inscribed...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for his life after a football injury at training camp, his friends and family gather to support him and discuss events leading to his coma. Told through dialogue, text messages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts.
28) Life support
Author
Series
Santee series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Attorney Alexia Kindale litigates the case of a hiker who fell and is now on life support. His wife wants to pull the plug so she can hide her secrets, and his father who wants him alive for reasons of love and money, but no one takes into consideration the surprising grace of God.
Author
Series
Flinkwater chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.
31) The dead zone
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After being in a coma for years, a man awakens with strange psychic abilities that come into effect whenever he touches someone. Bonus features include featurettes, interviews with the cast and crew, and much more.
33) Coma
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ten cases. Now 12. Why are young, healthy patients admitted for minor surgery at Boston Memorial Hospital ending up on life support? Dr. Susan Wheeler wants to know. Somebody else wants her dead. Genevieve Bujold plays Wheeler, trailing clues, clambering along ductways, hiding among morgue cadavers, infiltrating the eerie Jefferson Institute (an unforgettable marvel of spooky technology) and persuading her skeptical boyfriend and fellow doctor Mark...
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Language
English
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"Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times...but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days. Only two people know of Carol's eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and--when she lapses into another coma--plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her...alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous...
35) Homecoming
Author
Series
Ghostgirl volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Gwendolyn and Estella have always been as close as sisters can be. Growing up in a wealthy, eminent, and sometimes deceitful family, they've relied on each other for support and confidence. But now Gwendolyn is lying in a coma, the sole survivor of Estella's poisoning of their whole clan. As Gwendolyn struggles to regain consciousness, she desperately retraces her memories, trying to uncover the moment that led to this shocking and brutal act. Was...
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Language
English
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Description
"When Natalie Shelton thinks back to how things were before the car accident, she remembers a great marriage. She and her husband, Zack, seem as strong and dependable together as the houses he builds. They live in Portland, Oregon, and Natalie is co-owner of a successful accounting firm. They're happy, she's almost sure of it. Yet as Natalie lies trapped in a coma, unable to communicate though aware of everything around her, she realizes that her...
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Language
English
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Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut. After Roo crashes her car while texting she's confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome"--aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From the moment Hector Guzman entered a coma, Sophie Brinkmann has regretted joining his crime family. Hector's right hand, Aron Geisler, is doing all he can to keep the sinking ship afloat and keep Sophie in their steely grip. But when Hector's brother is murdered in Biarritz, Sophie gains the upper hand, and intends to use it. Sophie becomes a player in a game where the rules are constantly changing, where loyalty and friendship are rendered meaningless....
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