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1) InMotion
Publisher
Amputee Coalition of America
Pub. Date
1991-
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Formats
2) The silkworm
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
4) Amp'd
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After having his left arm amputated due to a car accident, Aaron is forced to return to his boyhood home to recuperate. Disappearing into a fog of pain killers, the only true joy in his life comes from the daily 90-second radio spots of science fun facts and the disembodied voice of Sunny Lee.
5) The penalty
Publisher
Kino Intl. Corp
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Deluxe collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color tinted black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
When an incompetent doctor amputates the legs of a young boy, he has no idea that the youth will grow up to be the immoral and embittered Blizzard, a criminal mastermind who orchestrates a bizarre and heinous plot to avenge himself upon his malefactor.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sam Blackman, a feisty army vet who lost part of a leg in the current Iraq War, is in his last days of rehab at a V.A. hospital in Asheville, N.C., when he meets Tikima Robertson, a black woman and fellow amputee who invites him to apply for a job at her security firm. Soon after, Sam phones the firm and learns Tikima is dead. Sam speaks at Tikima's funeral, during which her apartment is ransacked. Tikima's sister, Nakayla, later finds that the intruders...
8) Armored
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After losing part of his left leg, former bodyguard Joshua Duffy takes a job as a mall cop to support his family, but runs into an old friend who has a much more intriguing job offer, to join a mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico to broker peace between the drug cartels in the region.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Skylar Evans, seventeen, yearns to escape Creek View by attending art school, but after her mother's job loss puts her dream at risk, a rekindled friendship with Josh, who joined the Marines to get away then lost a leg in Afghanistan, and her job at the Paradise motel lead her to appreciate her home town.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The Great War has ended. The Armistice has been signed. But the suffering continues, as soldiers come home physically and mentally scarred. Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is working in a clinic for recuperating amputees, where she becomes involved in the efforts of the captain of a group of Welsh soldiers who is desperate to keep his men from falling into depression and suicide. After the soldiers are sent home, the captain writes to Bess, telling...
13) Crossfire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?
Author
Series
Summer Harbor novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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Description
Joe, a young boy trying to play pirates at the playground, keeps getting interrupted with questions about what happened to his leg, and gets more and more fed up until the kids finally understand they don't need to know what happened.
17) How we roll
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After developing alopecia Quinn lost her friends along with her hair and former football player Jake lost his legs and confidence after an accident, but the two help each other believe in themselves and the possibility of love.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dancing With the Stars sensation Amy Purdy reveals the story of how losing her legs led her to find a spiritual path. When the Las Vegas native was just nineteen, she contracted bacterial meningitis and was given less than a two percent chance of survival. In a near-death experience, she saw three figures who told her: "You can come with us, or you can stay. No matter what happens in your life, it's all going to make sense in the end." In that moment,...
19) Honor's refuge
Author
Series
Love and honor (Bridgeman) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Phil Osbourne of Special Forces A-Team returned home from the military missing a leg and feeling like half a man, but Melisa Braxton has loved him since they met. When things take a dangerous turn at the women's shelter where Melissa works, Phil must overcome wounds both seen and unseen to find a strength long buried-and save the woman he loves"--
20) Sea Glass Island
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"With her two younger sisters heading for the altar, will Samantha Castle exchange old dreams for new ones? Lately she'd rather be on the North Carolina coast with family than in New York with agents and actors. Though she vows not to let her teenage crush on Ethan Cole influence her decision, it's hard to ignore her feelings for the local war hero. Ethan lost more than his leg in Afghanistan. He lost his belief in love. Even being surrounded by couples...
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