Powers, Richard
Summary: Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction -- On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWWinters, Ben H.
Summary: In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk--still in practice but a shell of his former self--is hired to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINÓlafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Summary: "An overlooked pianist who finally receives fraught success after decades of disappointment. An elusive dancer whose fiancé is desperate to untangle her untimely death. A mysterious patient who is comatose after a violent accident. These are the three women who animate Olaf Olafsson's brilliantly rendered One Station Away. Magnus, a New York neurologist -- son to one, lover to another, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLAXu, Ruiyan.
Summary: Injured by a gas explosion that renders him incapable of speaking Chinese, Shanghai businessman Li Jing struggles to communicate using faltering English phrases learned during his childhood years in Virginia and finds his marriage strained by a growing bond with an American neurologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010