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1) Cross roads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
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...
3) If I stay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
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, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
4) Kiss
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After a freak accident - ice fell on him as he walked in the street -- a man lies in a coma in a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lainey, his wife, is the only one who believes he will recover. She visits him every day, bringing family objects and talking of home, becoming ever more aware of the wonder and richness of daily life.
7) Still life
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After surviving an auto accident that broke nearly every bone in her body and plunged her into a coma, successful businesswomen and happily married Casey Marshall realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She quickly discovers that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be--and that her accident might not have been an accident at all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After awakening from a four and a half year-long coma, a simple teacher finds himself irreparably altered -- both blessed ... and cursed -- with precognative visions of the future. Driven by his altruistic nature, he decides to use his newfound powers to prevent tragic events yet to happen. But as word of his unique ability leads to unwanted fame, the gift he hoped to share with humanity inevitably separates him from it.
Left with a sixth sense as...
9) Angel falls
Author
Language
English
Description
Liam will do anything to break his wife out of her coma, even if it involves locating the first love of her life--the man she married before him--and bringing him to her bedside.
10) Talk to her
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
In a private clinic Barco and Benigno strike up a friendship while caring for comatose women.
11) A veces miento
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Amber despierta en un hospital. No puede moverse. No puede hablar. No puede abrir sus ojos. Es capaz de escuchar a todos los que la rodean, pero ellos no lo saben. Amber no recuerda que fue lo que le sucedió, pero sospecha que su marido tuvo algo que ver en ello. Alternando entre su paralizado presente, la semana anterior a su accidente y un diario de su niñez veinte años atrás, este perturbador thriller psicológico hará preguntarnos:...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the small town of Granite Creek, Minnesota, Haze Evans suffers a stroke at the age of 89 and slips into a coma. Haze is a local legend, having written a daily column in the Granite Creek Gazette for fifty years running"--
When Haze Evans first appeared in the small-town newspaper, Granite Creek Gazette, she earned fans by writing a story about her bachelor uncle who brought a Queen of the Rodeo to Thanksgiving dinner. Now, fifty years later,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.
Series
Contemporary neurology volume 71
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
17) Unbury Carol
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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...
18) Time out
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Alienated at school and troubled by his parents' separation, Kit loses himself in running, until one day an accident on the road catapults him into what seems to be a parallel universe.
19) Overkill
Author
Language
English
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...