Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Hiding a dark and terrible secret, Silvia Shute, lying unconscious in a hospital bed after falling from a balcony, is plagued by a vast array of visitors, in this compelling novel, told through multiple narrative voices, that slowly and artfully reveals the events and circumstances that led to her coma.

This place is magic . . . but it's not the sort of magic that comes from wands and spells... Can piecing together the past help you change the present? Safiya and her mum have never seen eye to eye. Her mum doesnt understand Safiya's love of gaming and Safiya doesn't think they have anything in common. As Safiya struggles to fit in at school she wonders if her mum wishes she was more like her confident best friend Elle. But then her mum falls into...

Down where my love lives is a bittersweet love story of one man's spiritual journey trough the darkness of despair and into the light of hope. The Dead don't dance is the story of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy, and Dylan Styles must come to terms with both love and loss. Will the music of his heart be stilled forever or will he choose to dance with life once more? Maggie is...

While struggling to cope with her alcoholic boyfriend's betrayal that put her sister in a coma, seventeen-year-old Harley reconnects with neighbor Raf, who is facing his own demons after rehab.

After surviving a coma, 13-year-old Frankie Hermans is left paralyzed, mute, and bound to a wheelchair. He sees his life as hopeless until he meets Joe Speedboat, a new boy in town whose sheer kinetic energy and boundless enthusiasm gives Frankie--and the rest of his sleepy Dutch town--a new lease on life.

Fever Devilin is killed by an intruder. He doesn't stay dead--thanks to an emergency medical team--but he does slip into a months-long coma. When he comes out of it, there are two things he now knows: he's been dreaming about the legendary Paris cafe scene and that his would-be killer was after a blue tin box, containing a photo of what Fever believes to be an angel.

When Alice Raikes slips into a coma following an accident that could have been a suicide attempt, her family gathers at her bedside to wait and recall her life and loves

Kate, eighteen, and Mary, sixteen, must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their loving but old-fashioned father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a persistant vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.

Blaming herself when the cousin she dragged onto a roller coaster falls into a coma, Nora struggles with unendurable guilt and tries to help when her cousin awakens with challenging disabilities.

If you could relive your childhood, would you? What if you had no choice? On the thirty-fifth anniversary of his parents' mysterious drowning, Jack Koryan returns to his family beach cottage. During a swim, Jack is attacked by a school of rare jellyfish whose toxic stings put him in a coma for three years. When he awakens, he finds that the jellyfish toxin has left him with an extraordinary memory that impresses his doctors. This discovery is complicated...