Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"Bullets cut down millionaire Ed Vincent as he climbs out of his small Cessna at La Guardia Airport. One minute he's a successful entrepreneur, newly in love and glad to be alive. In the next, he's on a gurney being worked on by EMTs. "He's not going to make it." Comatose, Ed Vincent can hear the doctors talking, but he can't reply. Someone has tried to kill him, and he knows who is behind it. But there is no way to tell anyone . . . or warn the woman...

What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet; particularly when she's surprised that you can even see her - and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town? Should you have her see a psychiatrist or should you consult one yourself? Or do you take a chance and believe in her, and allow yourself to be swept up in an extraordinary adventure? This is the beginning...

Ben (Colin Firth) returns home after recovering from a car accident in a hospital, but his world is still shattered: His wife was in the vehicle with him, and she died after waking from a coma. In a new apartment, with a new job as a house painter, he befriends Charlotte (Mena Suvari), the mysterious young woman who lives in the same building -- only there is more to her than meets the eye. He also starts having visions, but are these a result of...

Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother's desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis's father alive for two years fill the last four days of her sophomore year with major changes in herself and her relationships.

"The small town of Harrod's Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel's entrance, each left with strange calling cards...

Discusses Karen Ann Quinlan and other people who are kept alive only by extraordinary technological means, and examines the medical, legal, moral, humane, sociological and theological issues involved in the "right to die" controversy.

Laura, who is slowly emerging from a coma, overhears a confession that could solve the murder case currently being investigated by her journalist husband, Philip, and struggles to tell him what she has learned in order to keep him out of danger.

When modern-day thirteen-year-old Zane wakes from a coma in 1849 Missouri, his plans for adventure in Indian Territory with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim are halted by the kidnapping of Becky Thatcher.

Following an accident that injures his father, a resident of Gateways, a senior community near the Everglades, Jack joins with his father's neighbor, Anya Mundy, to stop Semelee, a mysterious woman who controls creatures of the Everglades.

"When an unconscious woman found in Hampton Park is brought to Mercy Hospital with no identification, Shirley recruits Anne to find out who the woman is and track down her family. Anne agrees, happy to help in any way she can. However, she soon learns that discovering Jane Doe's identity is a lot harder than she expected. The deeper Anne digs for answers, the more she realizes that, perhaps, Jane Doe's accident, which left her in a coma, wasn't an...