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81) The current
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene -- half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community's memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Three women disappear: When three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing, Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from both the law and each other.
Come and get us: Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in her washed-out hometown for a London winter of drinking to oblivion and yearning for deliverance. Some two decades later, she is married to a good man and settled in San Francisco, with a son and two daughters and a successful career designing artistic interior lights. One June morning, a photograph arrives in her mailbox, igniting an old longing and setting off a chain of events that [rocks] the...
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hr., 43 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eight months after a debilitating car accident leaves her with brain trauma and a back injury, amnesiac teen Ember tries to piece together the six weeks of her life leading up to the accident--and determine why none of her friends or family are willing to talk about it.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the death of Laura's nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while, her inner turmoil is reopening the old wounds of her passionate love affair with Betty's father, David, and his abandonment of the family for another woman. Haunted by her past and driven to a breaking point by her thirst for retribution, Laura...
86) Infinite
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One rainy night, the unthinkable happens: Dylan Moran's car plunges off the road into a raging river, his beautiful wife drowning as he struggles to shore. In the aftermath, through his grief, Dylan experiences sudden, strange visions: wherever he goes, he's haunted by glimpses of himself. Dylan initially chalks it up to trauma, but that changes when he runs into a psychiatrist who claims he's her patient. She says he has been undergoing a unique...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Therapist turned stay-at-home mom Jules Hart's idyllic suburban life shatters when she crashes her car into an icy lake. Her son and another teenage boy plunge into the water with her, but Jules can only manage to save one--the wrong one. Reeling from the death of her son, Jules spirals into a violent and unstable mental state. Ten months after the accident, she's still trying to reckon with the fact that she rescued Isaac Greer, another woman's...
88) Paris nocturne
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the disappearance of the woman driver, culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy's hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"All Days are Night is the story of Gillian, a successful and beautiful TV host, content with her marriage to Matthias, even if she feels restless at times. One night following an argument, the couple has a terrible car accident: Matthias, who is drunk, hits a deer on the wet road and dies in the crash. Gillian wakes up in the hospital completely disfigured. Only slowly, after many twists and turns, does she put her life back together, and reconnects...
90) El gran Gatsby
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, es el arquetipo de los legendarios años veinte en los que todo parecía posible, tiempo de felicidad entre el horror de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la barbarie de la Segunda. Con los demás protagonistas, forma parte de la Generación Perdida, los "jóvenes tristes" que personificaron el mito de la pasión y el desafecto, la literatura que se funde con la vida.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
You'd think a day when your whole life changes should be marked in some way. But for Emma, it wasn't. She had been celebrating her hen night, a low-key evening out with friends, when the car accident happened. Though Emma survived, her memories are hazy. Sometimes she can hear snatches of her friend's screams, or smell the fumes of petrol. Most of all though, she sees the shadowy man who saved her life. No-one else saw him. But he was definitely there....
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
"Defending an innocent young man, defense attorney Paul Madriani uncovers a morass of corruption and greed that leads to the highest levels of political power. One of the most successful lawyers in the country, Olinda Serna is a master at managing money as well as her influential clients. After years of fierce combat in the political trenches, Serna knows all the dirty secrets, where the bodies are buried, and how deeply they are stacked. When she's...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When two cars collide at an intersection in a leafy Chicago suburb, Hartley Nolan is not the person police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, he barely drinks; everyone knows it's his wife who's the alcoholic. But the bigger question on people's minds is what brought Sonia Senn, dead at the scene, back to her hometown in such a hurry that night? In eleven tightly linked stories, Red Light Run pulls us into the inner lives of Hartley, Sonia,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to tragedy. Just hours before, they'd watched the Wildcats score a winning touchdown. Now, they're faced with the deaths of three cheerleaders-- their promising lives cut short in a fatal crash. And the boy in the other car-- the only one to survive-- is believed to be at fault. As rumors begin to fly and accusations spin, allegiances form...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Who wants to believe their family could ever be broken? Devon and James Payne are brothers and rivals since childhood. But they share an affinity for sports that brings glory to their Connecticut town and promise for the future. Then they're in a car accident. Devon is paralyzed for life, while James goes on to live the dream. For the Paynes, the tremulous repercussions of that evening never settled. Over the course of a decade, Devon decides to visit...
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Bill Gastner retired, Robert Torrez took over the top spot. But what were Torrez's first days as a rookie officer like? Terrible! It's 1986. Undersheriff Bill Gastner hastens to the interstate exit where a violent crash has occurred. The vehicle struck the support pillars; it is totaled and the driver and a passenger crushed inside; a dead boy has been ejected. The first deputy to join him at the scene is rookie Robert Torrez, the department's...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five months ago, an accident left Diana Sparrow badly injured and missing a few months of her memory. As if that's not enough, she's started having recurring nightmares about the night of the accident. Dreams that feel so real, she's left questioning: maybe she didn't just slide off the road into a ditch. Maybe, just maybe, she hit something. Or someone. She can't turn to her former best friend Val, who's been sleeping with Diana's husband Jonathan...
100) In this moment
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days she's able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes. After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street...just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him. Meg can't help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into...
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