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1) The whispers
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
2) Vertigo 42
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 23
Language
English
Description
At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson -- a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental -- a fall caused by vertigo -- but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that...
3) The fell
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of Summerwater, a riveting novel of mutual responsibility, personal freedom, and the nearness of disaster"--
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate and turns up the hill. Kate is in the middle of a two week quarantine period, but she just can't take it anymore - the closeness of the air in her small house, the confinement. And anyway, the moor will be deserted at this time. Nobody need ever know....
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One Wrong Step Could Send Her Over the Edge All Penny has ever wanted to do is dance-and when that chance is taken from her, it pushes her to the brink of despair, from which she might never return. When she wakes up after a traumatic fall, bruised and battered but miraculously alive, Penny must confront the memories that have haunted her for years, using her love of movement to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Kathryn Craft's lyrical debut...
5) Tiptop cat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A cat finds the courage to climb again after a frightening fall from his owner's apartment balcony.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lucy is having a terrible day. She's falling down a mountain. As she passes various characters--a mountain man, a bungeeing duck, and a pile of shuffling bears--she tries to ask for help. But everyone misinterprets her requests. As Lucy gains velocity, the story grows in silliness. Ending eventually in a giant, rolling snowball that lands Lucy safely at a hot-chocolate chalet. No harm done!
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ellia Dawson wakes up in the hospital with retrograde amnesia, unable to remember Liam McPherson, the boyfriend who insists that they are in love--Liam is devastated, and, desparate to reawaken her memories, begins to write the story of their relationship, convinced that it will somehow recreate their relationship.
8) Turning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things...
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