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Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Joanna Whitman's famous ex-husband dies in a car accident, she doesn't know what to feel ... But when she discovers that the young woman with him in the crash is pregnant, Joanna feels compelled to act ... Ashley Blake can't believe it when Joanna ... suggests they hide away at her beach house ... But alone and pregnant Ashley can't turn down Joanna's offer. Yet she knows that if Joanna ever found out the real reason Ashley was in that car,...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Best friends Liv and Morgan are dating brothers, Nathan and Clay. On their way home from a party in Clay's convertible, four lives change forever in a sudden impact, a screech of brakes, and shattering glass. Live wakes up in the hospital, confused when people call her Morgan. But when the bandages come off her face, it's Morgan's face in the mirror. Morgan always seemed to have the perfect life, but as Liv tries to fit herself into Morgan's world,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
For five days teenager Hannah Ashton has been living a nightmare because Greater Houston is devoid of people and totally silent, but then she finds Leo Sterling, a boy from her school whom Hannah considers to be both hot and trouble; together they set out to explore their city, and their own emotions--but above all they need to find out what has happened to their world, or risk being separated forever.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
At a party Harley Langston discovers her boyfriend, Mike hooking up with her younger sister, Audrey. She abandons them both in a rage, and when Mike drunkenly drives Audrey home, he crashes--and Audrey ends up in a coma. Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain and the undeniable truth that her relatively unscathed ex-boyfriend has a drinking problem. Raf, a neighbor and childhood friend who's recently out of rehab, is still wrestling with his own demons....
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fen Dexter's quiet life on the idyllic California coast is interrupted one stormy night when a blood covered man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to have been in a car accident. He tells her that he is on his way to San Francisco to help the police solve the murder of his fiancee. Unable to make it to the hospital because of the storm, he stays the night at Fen's and the attraction between them is obvious. The next morning he heads to the hospital,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abbey has barely arrived in the quaint, quiet town of Hideaway Grove before things turn from blissful to bloody -- as the new librarian is mowed down by a car. The only witness on the scene isn't much help, aside from handing Abbey the bag of books dropped by the victim. Even worse, the sheriff's office seizes Abbey's car because of a suspicious dent in the right front fender. While she waits for the problem to be sorted out, Abbey is drawn into a...
67) Infinite
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
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...
68) The great Gatsby
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
Author
Series
Appleseed Creek mysteries volume 1
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"While her Cleveland friends relocated to Southern California and Italy, 24-year-old computer whiz Chloe Humphrey moves with some uncertainty to Appleseed Creek to direct technology services at a nearby college. Her first acquaintance is Becky, an ex-Amish teenager looking for a new home. While driving Chloe's car, Becky collides with a buggy, killing an Amish bishop. But what looks like an accident is soon labeled murder when police discover the...
70) The road trip
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What if the end of the road is just the beginning? Four years ago, Dylan and Addie fell in love under the Provence sun. Wealthy Oxford student Dylan was staying at his friend Cherry's enormous French villa; wild child Addie was spending her summer as the on-site caretaker. Two years ago, their relationship officially ended. They haven't spoken since. Today, Dylan's and Addie's lives collide again. It's the day before Cherry's wedding, and Addie and...
71) Hot for you
Author
Series
Turn up the heat volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Firefighter Reggie Morgan is done with love, done with relationships, and done with complications. But when he's called to the scene of a hit-and-run, he finds a scared little girl, a butt-ugly stray puppy, and an unconscious woman he can't get out of his mind. The girl and the puppy are a handful, but the girl's mother, Maggie, might just be the woman to melt Reggie's icy heart. Reggie has loved and lost before and the pain nearly broke him. But...
72) Carry the one
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen's wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidently hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next 25 years, those involved, including Carmen and her brother and sister, connect and disconnect and reconnect with each other and their victim.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2021
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...
74) 11 paper hearts
Author
Publisher
Underlined
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A year after a car accident affected her memory, sixteen-year-old Ella begins receiving paper hearts from a secret admirer with clues that may help her remember the weeks she lost.
Ella's life was picture perfect: a circle of close friends, a jam-packed social life, and an amazing boyfriend. Then there was a car accident after a Valentine's Day dance. When Ella woke up in the hospital, she couldn't remember the accident... or anything about the weeks...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
July, 1899, Bellevue Avenue. Emma Cross, editor-in-chief of the Newport Messenger, covers Newport's first-ever automobile parade. The festive atmosphere turns to shock as Philip King drunkenly swerves his motorcar into a wooden figure of a nanny pushing a pram on the obstacle course. That evening, at a dinner party hosted by Ella King, Emma and her beau Derrick Andrews are enjoying the food and the company when Ella's son staggers in, still inebriated....
76) The company
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Bristol, 1991. Crammed into a hire car, on their way to a vital appointment, five representatives of Conroy Enterprises are running very late. Rob Conroy, the black sheep of the family, is torn between spiteful amusement at his Uncle Tony's irritation and anxiety for the future. If Conroy Enterprises fails, it will bring Rob's own small publishing company down with it. But in the space of just two hours, everything changes. The car crashes, leaving...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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
Vergara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Llamarse Lizzy apellidándose Bennet fue una casualidad, pero esta anécdota ha marcado su vida desde niña, desde el momento en que decidió guiar su conducta por el código moral de la protagonista de Orgullo y prejuicio, la otra Lizzy Bennet: honor, libertad, coherencia. Pero algo tuvo que salir muy mal, porque con treinta años recién cumplidos, esos tres principios se han volatilizado: la prensa la considera un monstruo, la policía la persigue,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Pr
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Wendy and Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and their friends are in the peaceful mountain town of Trafalgar, B.C. enjoying a two-week vacation of skiing, drinking, drugs, and sex. But tragedy strikes when two of the group crash through the ice into the frozen river. It's Christmas Eve and the snow-storm of the decade has settled over the town. Constables Molly Smith and Dave Evans have a busy shift attending fender-benders, tumbling pedestrians, and...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
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...
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