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61) Poultrygeist
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After meeting his demise crossing the road, Chicken comes back as a noisy troublemaking ghost, and knowing that scaring people is bad, decides to transform himself into a friendly ghost.
62) The enemy inside
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Madriani investigates a friend's wrongful manslaughter charge in the aftermath of a highly influential attorney's sudden death.
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...
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
Vera Stanhope novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat. Vera...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Waking up in a hospital after a motorcycle crash, Rob Hale becomes obsessed with discerning the fate of a blonde woman on the back of his bike who the doctors and police claim he has imagined, a situation that compels a partnership with a London-based private investigator mysteriously linked to Rob's late sister.
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....
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows that pedestrian traffic deaths are not unavoidable "accidents." They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the increase in pedestrian deaths in the US as well as programs and movements that...
70) 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
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
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Happiness is relative. For single mother Natalie Greene, that relative is her stepsister, Isabel Walker, known as The Happiness Guru. But even with Isabel's guidance, Natalie can't control her recently re-triggered PTSD over her mother's death in a car crash years ago. The old dread. The nightmares. And that all-consuming, terrifying thought: I think I killed my mother. But did she? And if not, who did?
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the bestselling tradition of Jodi Picoult and Celeste Ng, a tightly wound and suspenseful novel about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves the daughter of one parent dead--and the son of the other parent charged with manslaughter." -- Publisher annotation.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"I gaze at my husband's once-handsome face, so still and pale in the hospital bed. The doctors say I should keep talking. He might be able to hear me even after the terrible accident that left him fighting for his life. But all I have to whisper to my husband is this: I know what you did. Every day I wave my husband Damon off with a kiss and a smile, drive our precious children to school, and make sure our house is pristine before preparing a delicious...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tragic accident robs her of the last nine years of memories, Lori Mendenhall comes home to a family completely different than she remembers. As her memory returns and past secrets resurface, it will take all of them to repair what's been broken and find a new future together"--‡cProvided by publisher.
76) Old stone
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In Johnny Ma's thrilling debut feature, a Chinese taxi driver finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare where no good deed goes unpunished.
77) Jessabelle
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Returning to her childhood home in Louisiana to recuperate from a horrific car accident, Jessabelle comes face to face with a long-tormented spirit that has been seeking her return, and has no intention of letting her escape.
78) The museum of us
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sadie loves her rocker boyfriend, Henry, and her best friend, Lucie, but no one can measure up to her truest love and hero, the dazzling and passionate George. George, her secret. When something goes wrong and Sadie is taken to the hospital calling out for George, her hidden life may be exposed. Now she must confront the truth of the past, and protect a world she is terrified to lose."--Page [2] of cover.
79) 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
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Adam says he can't remember where he was for the two months he went missing in a Florida swamp. That's not true. He does remember. The truth: He was driving with his parents, and the car crashed when his father swerved to avoid colliding with a giant Sasquatch-like creature standing in the highway. Haunted by his parents' disappearance and hounded for claiming to have seen Bigfoot, Adam sets off into the deadly wilderness on a hunt for answers as...
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