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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The coffin dancer	Jeffery Deaver	Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually eluded the police. Rhymes —-a quadriplegic s…	OL14927371W
The vanished man	Jeffery Deaver	"It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings…	OL14927378W
The Stone Monkey	Jeffery Deaver	Lincoln and Amelia are recruited to track down a cargo ship carrying two dozen illegal Chinese immigrants, as well as the notorious human smuggler and killer known as the Ghost. But when the capture …	OL14927380W
One More Theory About Happiness	Paul Guest	Paul Guest was twelve years old, racing down a hill on a too big, ancient bicycle, when he discovered he had no brakes. Steering into anything that would slow down the bike, he hit a ditch, was throw…	OL15184065W
The twelfth card	Jeffery Deaver	Trying to discover why a Harlem high school student is being targeted for murder, quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, look for answers in the student's term paper abo…	OL15392151W
One more theory about happiness	Paul Guest	In the tradition of Mark Doty's "Heaven's Coast" comes an original memoir from the acclaimed poet and author about the accident that left him a paraplegic, and his struggle to find independence, love…	OL16163821W
Walking papers	Francesco Clark	The author describes his inspiring recovery after a late-night dive into the shallow end of a pool rendered him paralyzed from the neck down, a recovery that has shattered the dim prospects his docto…	OL16507405W
Un moving four ward	Bob Bell	Bob Bell was a college student when an accident in the dorm changed his life in an instant. His neck was broken, his spinal cord damaged, and he became a quadriplegic. That did not stop Bob with his …	OL17892130W
The Broken Window	Jeffery Deaver	Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to check things out. It turns out he has been wrongly convicted because the killer knows every sing…	OL20457331W
A mother's knot	Gail R. Coleman	A memoir written from the heart of a mother, whose then 17 year old son, was in a work related accident that left him a quadriplegic. It tells of his struggle for survival, the grueling rehabilitatio…	OL23172195W
The broken window	Jeffery Deaver	Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to check things out. It turns out that the cousin along with other people have been wrongly convicted becau…	OL24252194W
Des yeux pour le dire	Robert Jean	Quadriplégique depuis sa naissance, l'auteur raconte les joies et les obstacles rencontrés dans sa vie, ainsi que l'évolution du rôle des personnes handicapées dans notre société. [SDM].	OL24260380W
Drugi oddech	Philippe Pozzo di Borgo	"An inspiring, heartfelt, tragi-comic memoir by an aristocratic Frenchman who was paralyzed in a paragliding accident and has to adjust to his new circumstances with the help of his unlikely caregive…	OL24261893W
The skin collector	Jeffery Deaver	A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York - one more devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector: a tattooist with a chamber of torture hi…	OL24298912W
Enough for today	Sue Wunder	After her 16-year-old son dove into a swimming pool and broke his neck, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down, the author chose hope. She shares how she learned how to pray, how to listen, how to…	OL26199980W
Compromiso absoluto	Dick Hoyt	Un día Rick le pidió a su padre inscribirse en una carrera de caridad, pero la historia tuvo un giro inesperado: Rick también quería participar. Dick nunca había corrido en una carrera atlética antes…	OL26211064W
You gonna play?	Mark Zupan	Star of the Sundance Audience Award-winning film "Murderball", Mark Zupan suffered a life altering accident while at University that left him quadriplegic. This book charts Zupan's amazing recovery f…	OL26282294W
GIMP	Mark Zupan,Tim Swanson,Mark Zupan	Mark Zupan was a college soccer star, out drinking one night with friends. Tired from the game and from a few too many beers, he decided to take a nap in the back of his best friend's pickup truck. S…	OL277995W
Joni Eareckson Tada	Gregg Lewis	The story of Joni who was paralyzed in a diving accident; and how her faith in God gave her hope in the midst of despair.	OL3746634W
Don't worry, he won't get far on foot	John Callahan	Cartoonist John Callahan's dark (but still inspiring) memoir of his troubled family history, and his battles to recover from alcoholism and to function in life as a quadrapalegic.	OL6209521W