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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An injured ex-athlete discovers that giving up on the game of life is not an option... As far as former NFL star Jake Masters is concerned, dreams are risky propositions. Years ago he came achingly close to achieving his ambition of playing in the Super Bowl--before a spinal injury ended his career. Confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility, Jake now stays cocooned behind the imposing...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From disability advocate with a PhD in disability studies and creative nonfiction, and creator of the Instagram account @ sitting pretty, an essay collection based on a lifetime of experiences in a paralyzed body, tackling themes of identity, accessibility, bodies, and representation"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1850: Isabelle Rackham knows she will not marry for love. Though arranged marriages have fallen out of fashion, hers has been settled for some time to combine the upper-middle-class wealth of her father's coal mines with Alexander Osgood's prospering Northern country textile mills. Though not a man prone to romantic gestures, Alexander is well-known as an eligible bachelor. His good looks have turned more than one head, so Isabelle is content...
Author
Series
Surprised by love volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Recovering from a horse and buggy accident that took the lives of his family, Jeremiah Zook is struggling to regain both his spirit and his body. While his legs remain stubbornly opposed to moving, he exercises his hands by writing, and finds the perfect outlet for his grief in inspirational letters to the Amish newspaper. When Keturah Esch, a woman who works at the Green Valley Farmer's Market, responds with gratitude, Jeremiah has no idea that...
Author
Series
Plain and simple miracles volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a tornado strikes the farms surrounding Cody's Creek, Anna Schwartz's life is changed forever. She suffers a spinal cord injury and suddenly finds herself learning to live as a paraplegic. Three people--Chloe Roberts, Jacob Graber, and Ruth Schwartz--join forces to help Anna through her darkest days. Chloe is an Englischer who writes for the local paper. Jacob has recently arrived in town and stays on as a hired hand at her uncle's. And Ruth...
10) Nightfall
Author
Series
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Paraplegic attorney Pen Wilkinson, fighting through horrific flashbacks from a previous case, returns to Minnesota to investigate the murder of a candidate for governor. Is the murder a crime of passion, a political assassination, or part of a larger scheme? Fighting opposition from both police and the minority community, Pen presses ahead, unraveling the explosive secret of the thirty-year-old police shooting of a civil rights leader. As tensions...
11) More than chance
Publisher
Pure Flix
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Kelsey Minick is left a paraplegic after her adoptive father abuses her, she faces struggles when learning to trust her new family and cope with her disability.
12) Freefall
Author
Series
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Young attorney Pen Wilkinson's life was changed in an instant by a car accident, which killed her young niece and turned Pen into a paraplegic. Four years later, Pen's now-estranged sister calls with horrifying news: Her surviving child, a teenage son named Kenny, has vanished. Pen abandons her preparation for a major trial and travels across the country to search for Kenny, a computer prodigy. She contends with other players, including the FBI,...
Author
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Paraplegic young prosecutor Pen Wilkinson prepares to bring a corrupt congressman to justice in the first big trial of her career, only to find the stakes much higher than she imagined. Just before trial, Pen's star witness disappears--either killed or driven into hiding by an unknown, terrifying form of coercion. As Pen searches across the country for the missing witness, she uncovers a massive web of corporate and political crime that goes far beyond...
Author
Series
Publisher
Conquill Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Paraplegic young attorney Pen Wilkinson is putting her life back together after a tragic accident, working for a large bank in a faraway city. She soon begins to suspect that the job and the company are not what they seem to be, and suddenly she is thrust into a nightmare. Unbelievably, her employer and the media accuse Pen of fraud and wrongdoing, creating a scandal that threatens to bring down her company. Fired from her job, alone, and dodging...
15) Coming home
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A Marine captain returns from Vietnam to find that his wife, a Veteran's Hospital volunteer, has become involved with a paraplegic Vietnam war veteran.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, Special Forces warrior Jason Morgan parachuted into the Central American jungle on an anti-narcotics raid. Months later, he regained consciousness in a US military hospital, with no memory of how he'd gotten there-- and a prognosis that he would never walk again. After multiple surgeries and numerous setbacks, Morgan was a single father confined to a wheelchair and tortured by his pain. Light came in the form of Napal, the black Labrador...
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