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"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...
2) Memory man
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Language
English
Description
Amos Decker's life changed forever-- twice.The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect -- he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. Sarah suffers a traumatic head injury. Her memory and intellect are intact,...
4) Neuromancer
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Case was the sharpest data thief in the matrix--until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction" --...
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"One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot wound on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I'm the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence and her very self. She finds herself in...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--
Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “Americas Fattest Teen.” But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends,...
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Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Eva hurts her wing, she visits the hospital and meets a new friend, Rocco, who has a broken leg--but wearing a sling for a week prevents her from writing in her diary, and she turns to her friends and family in order to keep it up to date.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One frigid winter night, Mia and Michael Slate's comfortable world dissolves in an instant when they discover that their best friend has cheated them out of their life savings. At the same time, a few doors down, their teenaged son passes out in the snow at a party--a mistake whose consequences will shatter not just their family, but an entire community.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"While recovering from a traumatic head injury, Polly Schuster struggles to find her way through one chaotic week in July when her entire extended family descends upon the bucolic town of Livingston, Montana for their annual gathering. As she contends with a series of unexpected events and the haunting echoes of her past inconveniently resurfacing as a result of her injury, Polly soon learns that her perception of her family and their life together...
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English
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When Natalie Shelton thinks back to how things were before the car accident, she remembers a great marriage. She and her husband, Zack, seem as strong and dependable together as the houses he builds. They live in Portland, Oregon, and Natalie is co-owner of a successful accounting firm. They're happy, she's almost sure of it. Yet as Natalie lies trapped in a coma, unable to communicate though aware of everything around her, she realizes that her husband...
15) Boo hoo Bird
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 430L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When Bird gets hit on the head while playing ball, his friends have many suggestions to try to make him feel better.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 23
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Spotlight hardcover edition December 2014.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
126 pages, 26 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emma is playing ball with her brothers on an unusually warm winter afternoon. But an errant toss from her brother Matt hits her right on the nose! Luckily, it's nothing more serious than a little swelling, but it's enough to make her lose an important modeling job at The Special Day salon. Mona hires "mean girl" Olivia Allen to fill in. Olivia is thrilled, not only for the job, but also for a chance to spread some nasty rumors about Emma. Worst of...
17) All this time
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a traumatic accident, Kyle feels lost until he meets Marley, who seems like the girl of his dreams, but as they grow closer he fears he is headed for another crash.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
476 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After getting hit in the head while playing cricket, Tom finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, where he embarks on an epic journey with his fellow patients.
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Language
English
Description
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, showed Americans how optimism, an adventurous spirit, and a call to service can help change the world. Their arrival in the spotlight came under the worst of circumstances. On January 8, 2011, while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Arizona, Gabby was the victim of an assassination attempt that left six people dead and thirteen wounded. Gabby was shot in the head; doctors called...