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21) Before the fall
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--a struggling painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
22) Wish you well
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After their father's death, two children and their invalid mother head south to the rugged mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. They flourish until the local coal-and gas company comes around conniving to seize their property.
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Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 2
Description
The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie's life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood...
24) En un instante
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
389 pages
Description
"La vida se acaba en un instante para Finn Miller, de dieciséis años, cuando un accidente la arroja a ella y a otras diez personas por la ladera de una montaña. Suspendida entre dos mundos, observa impotente cómo aquellos a quienes ama luchan por sobrevivir. Ellos toman decisiones imposibles que los dejan atormentados por el dolor y el arrepentimiento. Incapaz de dejarlos ir, Finn se mantiene alerta mientras luchan por recuperar sus vidas destrozadas....
25) Winners: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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Lily Thomas is an aspiring young ski champion training for the Olympics, a young woman with her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily's future is changed forever, her hopes for the Olympics swept away in a tragic accident. Her father Bill has pinned all his hopes on his only daughter, and his dreams are now destroyed. Dr. Jessie Matthews, the neurosurgeon who operates on Lily that night, endures a tragedy of her own, and other brave...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, An imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, an atmospheric psychological thriller in which a young cop involved in a hit-and-run death becomes the focal point for a community's grief and determination to place blame"--
27) 100 bloody acres
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Morgan brothers run an organic fertilizer business that uses dead car crash victims to make the fertilizer but when months go by without any new victims, the brothers must find a new way to keep their business thriving.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
291 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying, among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a glacier at nearly 12,000 feet, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
390 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Griffin Holloway is desperate: the Maverick Ranch has been in his family for generations, but lately, it's a money pit. He'd sooner marry one of his horses than sell the ranch. Marriage, though, could be a solution. If he can woo a wealthy bride, he might save the ranch -- just in time for Christmas. Jaxon O'Grady likes his solitude just fine, thank you very much. But when a car accident brings the unexpected to his door, he realizes just how much...
30) A good person
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Struggling with guilt and addiction after a car accident that left her soon-to-be sister- and brother-in-law dead, a young woman finds unexpected redemption and forgiveness in her grieving would-be father-in-law.
32) Ethan Frome
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On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondrialcal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm. An embittered man and an enchanting young woman meeting in such circumstances unleash predictable consequences as passions are aroused between the three protagonists.
33) Crash and burn
Author
Series
Tessa Leoni novels volume 3
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author's latest stand-alone thriller, with a cameo by her fan-favorite character, Boston Detective D.D. Warren. My name is Nicky Frank. Except, most likely, it isn't. Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to survive the car accident, much less crawl up the steep ravine. Not in the dark, not in the rain, not with her injuries. But one thought allows her to defy the odds and flag down help: Vero. I'm looking for a...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park. Eddie meets 5 individuals in heaven each with a story to share, a secret to reveal and a lesson. The have profound meanings for Eddie on the real purpose of his life.
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Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
It is the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home. Four decades after the tragedy, a climber...
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"Having lived under her parents' thumb for 25 years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her own life. She moves from Chicago to Portland to live near her favorite aunt, finding employment as a music teacher at a local high school and a fast friend in Nichole Nyquist (who readers will recognize from A Girl's Guide to Moving On). Everything is coming together, though her love life leaves something to be desired. Until Nichole introduces Beth...
37) Without a trace
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After surviving a car accident off the Normandy coast, Charles Vincent, trapped in a loveless marriage, meets Aude Saint-Martin with whom he forms an instant connection as she nurses him back to health and decides, in a split second, to fight for a chanceat happiness--whatever the cost.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"They're calling it the worst pile-up in London history. Driving home, Margaret Holloway has her mind elsewhere-on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting-when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls her from the car just seconds before it's engulfed in flames. Then he simply disappears. Though she escapes with minor injuries, Margaret feels that something's...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. César tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, César's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
40) The lookout
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. He is unable...
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