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121) Survivor
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A college girl has romances with all three men involved in a car accident she caused. It was Kristin's bad driving which scared a girl pedestrian into the path of a drunk driver who killed her. Kristin's first romance is with the girl's boyfriend, the second with the drunk driver, the third with the officer investigating the accident. Two of them she marries. By the author of The Book of Reuben.
122) One split second
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a car carrying five friends home from a party crashes into a wall, the consequences are devastating - not just for the young people directly involved, but also for their families and the wider community. No one escapes unscathed, but some are more deeply scarred than others. Those affected are left to question who was to blame for the accident, and what price they will pay. This moving story of an accident and its aftermath explores our understanding...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto the wrong side of the road and causes an accident. He is arrested and incarcerated, forcing his mother and sister to reconnect and pick up the pieces in order to fight for his release"--
124) The liar's wife
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Ella wakes up in hospital following a hit and run incident, she is scared and confused. Close to tears, her eyes fall on a get-well-soon card on the window sill and the nurse reassures her that her loving husband will be back soon. But Ella has never been married ..."--Page [4] cover.
126) Bodies of water
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1960, Billie Valentine is a young housewife living in a sleepy Massachusetts suburb, treading water in a dull marriage and caring for two adopted daughters. Summers spent with the girls at their lakeside camp in Vermont are her one escape - from her husband's demands, from days consumed by household drudgery, and from the nagging suspicion that life was supposed to hold something different. Then a new family moves in across the street. Ted and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Martin, an acclaimed architect, emerges from a coma after a roadside accident to find his world transformed: not only has the commission of a lifetime been taken from him, but his injury has left him with "neglect syndrome," a loss of spatial awareness that has rendered him unfit to practice and unable to recognize the extent of his illness. Despite support from his formerly estranged brother and two grown daughters, his paranoia builds, alienating...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Wattpad Books edition.
Language
English
Description
What's the point of pretending nothing has changed when everything has? It's the last summer before college, and Jonas Avery knows he should be excited. Instead, he hides out at home, avoiding his friends, his family, and everything that resembles his old life. Because nothing will be normal again--because of The Accident, when everything started falling apart. Brennan Davis knows she needs to stand up and face her anxiety--the deep, dark, debilitating...
129) See you on Venus
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mia has had a heart condition her whole life. She's not afraid of dying but something has always stopped her from her biggest fear: tracking down her biological mother in Spain...until now. Before her next surgery, Mia wants to meet the woman who gave her away once and for all. Kyle has always been the life of the party...that was until the car accident that killed his best friend. Since then he's been reeling with guilt and willing to do just about...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scarlet Press edition.
Language
English
Description
Is it better to believe a lovely lie or to know the horrible truth? 1999: The night of their senior picnic, Scarlett Russo and her best friend Pepper were involved in a car accident that left two of their classmates dead. Afterward, they lied to the police, protecting each other from the consequences. Then Pepper left town and Scarlett never heard from her again... Now: Twenty-two years later, Scarlett has buried that deadly incident deep in her mind...
131) The distance home
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen years ago, a tragic accident cost Emma Metz her two best friends--one human and one equine. Now, following her father's death, Emma has reluctantly returned to the Maryland hometown she'd left under a cloud of guilt. Sorting through her father's affairs, Emma uncovers a history of lies tying her broken family to the one place she thought she could never return--her girlhood sanctuary, Jumping Frog Farm. Emma finds herself drawn back to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Of all the emotions single mother Kate Jones feels as she walks into her brand new house on Parkview Road, hope is the most unexpected. She has changed her name and her daughter's, and moved across the country to escape the single mistake that destroyed their lives. Kate isn't the only woman on the street starting afresh. Warm, whirlwind Gisela with her busy life and confident children, and sharp, composed Sally, with her spontaneous marriage and...
133) Before goodbye
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Music means more than anything to high school student Cate Reese; it's also what unites her with Cal Woods. Devoted classical guitar players, Cate and Cal are childhood friends newly smitten by love--until a devastating car accident rips Cal out of Cate's life forever. Blaming herself for the horrific tragedy and struggling to surface from her despair, Cate spirals downhill in a desperate attempt to ease her pain. Fellow student David Bennet might...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Joette Harper's life brings new meaning to the phrase "paycheck to paycheck." Struggling to afford her mother's sky-high medical bills and also keep the lights on in her trailer home, Joette needs a break. So, when she spies a bag full of money amongst the wreckage of a fiery car accident, she knows she can't just let it be. Inside is a bounty better than she could have dreamed--just shy of $300,000 in neatly stacked hundreds and fifties. Enough to...
135) I know everything
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Police investigator Susan Adler is ready to close the book on a deadly car accident, but after the medical examiner discovers evidence of foul play, she knows she has a murder on her hands. The victim was the wealthy wife of Randall Brock, a renowned psychiatrist who treats patients with disturbing, brutal fantasies. And just like that, Susan's got a suspect. Randall has a violent past but knows he didn't kill his wife. In the midst of his crushing...
136) Convince me: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A charismatic man's death leaves his family asking questions and exposing secrets, revealing the man they loved as an unrepentant pathological liar in this explosive thriller from film producer and author Nina Sadowsky. Justin Childs is handsome, likeable, smart. A devoted son to his mother, Carol; a loving husband to his wife, Annie; and a surefooted, savvy business partner to his best friend from college, Will. To so many, the perfect man. He's...
137) Her new story
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tess Baker thought she had the perfect everything--until her best friend, and (now ex) husband, betrayed her, leaving her with nothing, except her career as an investigative reporter. In her work for a leading magazine, Tess can lose herself in whatever story she's chasing. So she's devastated when her next assignment is far from the exciting location or action-packed quest she anticipated. Thanks to a recent misstep, Tess is handed a bus ticket...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey's hands, his musical career, and his family. Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic daze, and with only fragmented memories of his past, Braden wants desperately to escape the darkness of the last eleven years. When his ex-wife and son are killed in a car accident, Braden returns home, hoping to forge a relationship with his troubled seventeen-year-old daughter, Allie. But how can he hope to rescue...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
"Have you ever heard of the term "ricochet victims"? This is the name of the immediate environment of the victim. Family members of the victims, husbands of women who were raped, parents of children who were hit by a car... Those who often suffer almost the same as the victim of the tragedy... A serial killer has appeared in Moscow. With monstrous force, an unknown person twists the cervical vertebrae of lonely passers-by and leaves notes on their...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"Have you ever heard of the term "ricochet victims"? This is the name of the immediate environment of the victim. Family members of the victims, husbands of women who were raped, parents of children who were hit by a car... Those who often suffer almost the same as the victim of the tragedy... A serial killer has appeared in Moscow. With monstrous force, an unknown person twists the cervical vertebrae of lonely passers-by and leaves notes on their...
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