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21) Blank slate
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English
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Adrianna Mueller may be a world-renowned concert pianist, but when she wakes from her coma after a serious car accident, her ability to perform has disappeared as completely as her lost memory. As she recovers from her injuries, she struggles with the expectations of everyoneher family, friends, and fiancé, Brockwho all want everything to go back to the way it was. Everyone except Gavin, Adriannas brothers business...
22) Angels walking
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. Then just when things seem to be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. Across the country, Tyler's one true love Sami Dawson has moved on. A series of small miracles leads Tyler to a maintenance job at a retirement home and a friendship...
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English
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They met at a party. It was hate at first sight. Ruth was far too beautiful, too flamboyant. Not at all Ann's kind of person. Until a chance encounter in the bathroom led to an alliance of souls. Soon they were sharing hankies during the late showing of "Sophie's Choice," wolfing down sundaes sodden with whipped cream, telling truths of marriage, mortality, and love, secure in a kind of intimacy no man could ever know. Only best friends understand...
24) Virgil Wander
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English
Description
"An enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living' landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his...
26) The gift
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
Description
Nathan Hurst hated Christmas. For the rest of the world it was a day of joy and celebration; for Nathan it was simply a reminder of the event that destroyed his childhood until a snowstorm, a cancelled flight, and an unexpected meeting with a young mother and her very special son would show him that Christmas is indeed the season of miracles. From the beloved author of the international bestseller The Christmas Box comes another timeless story of...
27) First love
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English
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
One year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, Ryan Perry receives strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me," and discovers that he is being stalked by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
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Language
English
Description
The immune system is a guardian vigilantly fighting illness, healing wounds, maintaining order and balance, and keeping us alive. Richtel interweaves the stories of four people: a terminal cancer patient who rises from the grave; a medical marvel who defies HIV; two women with autoimmunity who discover their own bodies have turned against them. As he leads us from the Black Plague to twentieth-century breakthroughs in vaccination and antibiotics,...
33) Coma
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English
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Robin Cook is the author - and Coma is the book - for which the term "medical thriller" was first used. It's a spine-chilling shocker about a crime beyond imagining and the committed young medical student who brings it to light. The surgery was routine, the kind performed many times a day at Boston's most prestigious hospital. The teams that worked in OR #8 were among the best in the world. But even their incredible skill couldn't make up for what...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
Escaping an impending arranged marriage in India, Maya Gupta arrives in America only to face a far greater challenge -- cancer -- and, while staying in her best friend's apartment, she participates in a DC clinical trial that could save her life. But her best friend has a brother -- major league baseball player Ben Evans -- who is shocked to find Maya in his apartment. Can he protect his above-reproach reputation and still search for a way to help...
35) Punk wig
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A little boy does helpful things for his mother as she undergoes chemotherapy, and goes with her as she picks out a wig, which together they call her "punk wig."
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2007.
Language
English
Description
The author describes life growing up different in an odd family, his unusual talents, his struggle to live a "normal" life, his diagnosis at the age of forty with Asperger's syndrome, and the dramatic changes that have occurred since that diagnosis.
39) Pandora's clock
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English
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Description
An airliner whose passengers have been infected with a deadly virus is ordered to land in the Sahara to be quarantined. As everyone on board will die anyway, the CIA decides to exploit the situation by shooting it down and blaming Arabs. In the air battle that follows Capt. James Holland, the pilot of the Boeing 747, shows what he is made of.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A brain scientists recounts her experiences after suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-seven, describing her discovery of differences in the left and right side of the brain and the steps she took over a period of eight years to recover her health.
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