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2021., Adult, Overlook Press Call No: Fic Isa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin in the world"--Boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase--and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, "the Prince," with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others. Risk fuels him, as does a good philosophical debate ... like, is killing really wrong? Chasing the Prince is another assassin with a score to settle for the time the Prince casually pushed a young boy off of a roof, leaving him comatose. When the five assassins discover they are all on the same train, they realize their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear. A massive bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with an incredible energy and surprising humor as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwind. Award-winning author Kotaro Isaka takes readers on a tension-packed journey as the bullet train hurtles toward its final destination. Who will make it off the train alive--and what awaits them at the last stop?
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2012, c2012., Adult, FaithWords Large Print Call No: LP Fic You Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 own subconscious, but whose directions he follows nonetheless with the possibility that they might lead to authenticity and perhaps, redemption. The adventure draws Tony into deep relational entanglements where he is able to 'see' through the literal eyes and experiences of others, but is "blind" to the consequences of hiding his personal agenda and loss that emerge to war against the processes of healing and trust. Will this unexpected coalescing of events cause Tony to examine his life and realize he built a house of cards on the poisoned grounds of a broken heart? Will he also have the courage to make a critical choice that can undo a major injustice he set in motion before falling into a coma?"--Publisher.
![Cross roads [LP] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT78144.JPG "Cross roads [LP] : a novel")
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2003., Doubleday Call No: Fic Pal Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Horror.
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2020., Biblioasis Call No: Fic Qui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Biblioasis international translation series Volume: 29Summary Note: Sliding doors open and close automatically, exit to the left, entrance to the right. Beyond it, cars go by, and pedestrians and cyclists. A large park behaves as if nothing has happened. The mirage of a world intact. In an instant, a life changes forever. After he falls from a scaffold on the construction site where he works, the comatose David is visited daily by his wife, Caroline, and their six-year-old son Bertrand - but despite their devoted efforts, there's no crossing the ineffable divide between consciousness and the mysterious world David now inhabits.
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-- Over kill2023., Grand Central Publishing Call No: NEW MYS Fic Bro Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn't seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for years--not since their volatile marriage imploded--so he's shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he--despite their divorce--has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the responsibility and the glare of public scrutiny, Zach ultimately walks away, letting Rebecca's parents have the final say. Four years later, Rebecca's attacker, Eban--the scion of a wealthy North Carolina family--gets an early release from prison. The ludicrous miscarriage of justice reeks of favoritism, and Kate Lennon, a brilliant state prosecutor, is determined to bring him to justice. Rebecca's parents have kept her alive all these years, but if her condition were to change--if she were to die--Eban could be retried on a new charge: murder. Kate's mission to send Eban back to prison for good depends wholly on Zach. It isn't lost on him that in order for Eban to be charged with Rebecca's murder, Zach must actually be the one to kill her. He rejects Kate's legal standpoint, but can't resist their ill-timed attraction to each other. Eban, having realized the jeopardy he's in, plots to make certain that neither Zach nor Kate lives to see the death of Rebecca--and the end of his freedom.
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c2013., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole mysteries Volume: 10Summary Note: A serial killer starts murdering Oslo's police officers and not even Harry Hole is safe. Several police officers are found murdered at the scene of an old and unsolved murder case that they were involved in investigating. The killings are extremely brutal and bestial. The police have no leads. What's more, they're missing their best investigator. A severely wounded man in a coma is kept alive at a hospital in Oslo. The room is guarded by the police and the identity of the patient is kept secret.
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2010., Adult, Boréal Call No: FR Fic Lab Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Après dix-huit jours passés dans le coma, une femme se réveille. Son esprit, sa capacité de penser en formules percutantes semblent intacts, mais elle n'émet aucun son et refuse d'ouvrir les yeux. Les médecins, le personnel lui réptent qu'elle est sortie d'affaire, mais sa mémoire n'est plus qu'une page blanche. Une jeune femme à son chevet se prétend sa fille, un homme vient lui parler comme si elle était sa femme alors que toutes les forces vives en elle lui hurlent que c'est impossible. Il n'y a que ce jeune voyou qui soliloque près d'elle à longueur de nuit avec qui elle ressent une inquiétante complicité. Elle n'a plus de passé et n'est pas pressée de retrouver celui qui était le sien, le soupçonnant truffé de déceptions et d'erreurs. Les premières parcelles que sa mémoire lui rend sont des extraits de poèmes qu'elle reconnaît aisément sans pour autant décoder le moindre lien avec son passé. Par contre, elle sait exactement ce que sa vie doit être désormais. Ce qu'elle est prête à donner, ce qu'elle est prête à recevoir."--Couverture.
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c2009., Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Fie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After surviving an auto accident that broke nearly every bone in her body and plunged her into a coma, successful businesswomen and happily married Casey Marshall realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She quickly discovers that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be--and that her accident might not have been an accident at all.
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-- Whiskey and Charlie[2015]., Sourcebooks Landmark Summary Note: "Whiskey and Charlie might have come from the same family, but they'd tell you two completely different stories about growing up. Whiskey is everything Charlie is not--bold, daring, carefree--and Charlie blames his twin brother for always stealing the limelight, always getting everything, always pushing Charlie back. By the time the twins reach adulthood, they are barely even speaking to each other ... When Charlie hears that Whiskey has been in a terrible accident and has slipped into a coma, Charlie can't make sense of it. Who is he without Whiskey?"--.
![Whiskey & Charlie [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT78558.JPG "Whiskey & Charlie [eBook]")
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2023., Viking Call No: Fic Aud Edition: First United States edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 to start a family of their own; and the quiet, elderly Portuguese couple who care for their adult son with a developmental disability, and who pass the long days on the front porch, watching their neighbors go about their busy lives. The story spins out over the course of one week, in the alternating voices of the women in each family as they are forced to face the secrets within the walls of their own homes, and the uncomfortable truths that connect them all to one another. Set against the heartwrenching drama of what will happen to Xavier, who hangs between death and life, or a life changed forever, THE WHISPERS is a novel about what happens when we put our needs ahead of our children's. Exploring the quiet sacrifices of motherhood, the intuitions that we silence, the complexities of our closest friendships, and the danger of envy, this is a novel about the reverberations of life's most difficult decisions.
