Las Animas - Bent County Library District

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson's Coulter Family series continues in this poignant story of a love that defies all the odds . . . Five years ago, Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyed when a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forced her to abandon a brilliant career. Despite her difficulties, she never lost her vivacious spirit or sunny disposition. Now she has a great new job at an animal clinic-and a handsome...

"Dr. Carrie Bryant's four years as a neurosurgical resident at White Memorial Hospital have earned her the respect and admiration from peers and staff alike. When given the chance of performing her first unsupervised brain surgery, Carrie jumps at the opportunity. What should have been a routine, hours long operation, turns horribly wrong and jeopardizes her patient's life. Emotionally and physically drained, Carrie is rushed back to the OR to assist...

Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, full of pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small vegetable farm to recover. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse?

First-person narrator Sarah Nickerson is a 37-year-old, overachieving multitasker with a Harvard MBA and a demanding job as vice president of human relations at a Boston consulting firm. Her husband, Bob, works at a struggling tech start-up and shares in the upbringing of their three young children in an affluent suburb. Then there's a car accident on a rainy November morning, and a traumatic brain injury leaves Sarah with "left neglect," a lack of...

Teenager Jersey Hatch must work through his extensive brain damage to figure out why he decided to shoot himself.

A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, works in a halfway house for brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.

Cuando Shauna McAllister vuelve a su hogar de la niñez para recuperarse de un accidente de coche que acabó con seis meses de su memoria y dejó a su hermano gravemente dañado el cerebro, ella lucha para resolver lo que sucedió esa noche. When Shauna McAllister returns to her childhood home to recover from a car accident that wiped out six months of her memory and left her brother severely brain damaged, she struggles to sort out what happened...