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Publication Date
2018.
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...
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Language
English
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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,...
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Provides information about comatose patients, explaining what comas are, their causes, and how they are treated. Explains coma recovery, including signs and symptoms of when recovery is and is not likely to happen, what pallative care is, organ donation, ethical issues, experimental treatments, and interactions with health care providers. Includes a list of frequently asked questions and a suggested reading list.
4) Cross roads
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"William Paul Young ... tells a story of the incremental transformation of a man caught in the torments of his own creation, somewhere between heaven and earth."--Provided by the publisher
5) If I stay
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
After four years of passing in the halls, Petra and Martin meet at graduation then, when a car accident puts Martin in a coma, Petra is left to keep the connection going in hopes he will awaken.
Publisher
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Megan seems to have the perfect life with a wonderful husband named Thomas and two adorable children. When she awakens from a coma, Megan discovers she is not married, and never has been. But when she meets Thomas for real, she seizes the chance to help him fall in love with her, again for the first time.
9) Mayday
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
296, 13 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When trying to protect her sister lands seventeen-year-old Crow in a coma, putting her soul in limbo between life and death, she is given a chance to inhabit a loaner body to go back and change the past.
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Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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"After almost twenty years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on the road, leaving Stella behind. But when she falls into a coma on the eve of his departure, he has to make a choice between stardom and his wife...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
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...
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English
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"Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can't pretend to be optimistic about it--things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened. But then Savannah finds a note in Piper's locker inviting Piper to a meeting of their school's wilderness club...at the very place and on the very day she fell. Which means...
Author
Publisher
Crown, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Comatose after an act of heroism, Henri Skinner revisits memories of his British youth, while a woman from his past forges an unexpected, profound friendship with Henri's teenage son, Sam.
14) Family tree
Author
Language
English
Description
Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she's pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm...
15) Mister Lullaby
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm
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...
16) Coma
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Publication Date
c1977
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When more than a dozen minor-surgery patients die inexplicably on the operating table, a medical student determines to find the reason.
17) Game changer
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two sisters-in-law find themselves at painful odds when the man who connects them-the brother of one, the husband of the other-is accused of a brutal crime in this twisty thriller from the author of the "exceedingly entertaining" (The New York Times) The Family Plot. Julia and Sienna Larkin are sisters-in-law, connected by Julia's husband and Sienna's brother, Jason. More than that, the two have been devoted best friends since Jason introduced them....
19) Then, again
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Asha's husband, Charlie, isn't dead, but he's been gone just the same since the day his aneurysm trapped him in a coma. Everything that made him Charlie left this world a year ago for a limbo that has trapped Asha, too. She doesn't want to stay in this situation, but she can't bear to kiss the love of her life goodbye. Luckily, she's not alone. Asha has the support of her best friend, her father, and then, unexpectedly, Jason. Asha and Jason shared...
20) Overkill
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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...

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