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Winners

A Novel

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4 of 5 copies available
4 of 5 copies available
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Even the most perfect lives can be shattered in an instant. In this moving, emotionally charged novel, Danielle Steel introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters striving to overcome tragedy and discover the inner resources and resilience to win at life—once again.
 
WINNERS
 
Lily Thomas is an aspiring ski champion training for the Olympics, a young woman with her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily’s future is changed forever, her hopes for the Olympics swept away in a tragic accident.
 
Dr. Jessie Matthews, the neurosurgeon who operates on her that night, endures a tragedy of her own, and instantly becomes the sole support of her four young children, while her own future hangs in the balance.
 
Bill, Lily’s father, has pinned all his hopes on his only daughter, his dreams now shattered.
 
Other lives will entwine themselves with theirs: Joe, a financial manager, faces a ruined career at the hand of a dishonest partner. Carole, a psychologist at Mass General, is a breast cancer survivor, her body and heart scarred by what she’s been through. Teddy, with a spinal cord injury worse than Lily’s, dreams of college and becoming an artist.
 
From the ashes of their lives, six people fight to alter the course of destiny and refuse to be defeated. When Bill builds a remarkable rehab facility for his daughter, countless lives are forever altered, and each becomes a winner.
 
Winners is about refusing to be beaten, no matter how insurmountable the challenge. And when Lily gets on skis again and enters the Paralympics, the battle to brave life again is won.
 
Winners is about more than surviving, it is about courage, victory, and triumph. When all appears to be lost, the battle has just begun.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Pegasus.
Praise for Winners
 
“Steel skillfully weaves the strands of the Matthews and Thomas families together in a layered story. . . . Together, they discover friendship, loyalty, and new dreams.”Publishers Weekly
 
“[Winners] will leave readers crying and cheering.”Booklist
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 24, 2013
      In Steel’s latest (after First Sight), Olympian hopeful Lily Thomas is injured in a freak ski-lift accident while on vacation in Squaw Valley. Her father, business tycoon Bill Thomas, refuses to accept that his talented daughter, on her way to the Ivy League, will never again walk—let alone ski. He blames Lily’s neurosurgeon, Jessie Matthews, for missing something and vows to go to the best specialists until he finds his miracle. Jessie understands how Bill feels, as she is forced to face new parenting challenges of her own when her husband is killed in a car crash the same night as Lily’s accident, leaving Jessie alone to care for her four children. Although Jessie and Bill start out as adversaries, they quickly become partners in Lily’s treatment and, as Bill plows ahead with his plans for a state-of-the-art rehab facility for kids, they become colleagues. Steel skillfully weaves the strands of the Matthews and Thomas families together in a layered story about loneliness and companionship that is marred only by stilted prose. Lily may be the patient, but all the adults are struggling with loneliness and the desire to feel important, needed, and relevant. Together, they discover friendship, loyalty, and new dreams.

    • Booklist

      September 1, 2013
      Chronicling the first year after tragedy strikes two families, Steel's latest grapples with the long, painful road to recovery. When a Tahoe ski lift breaks with Olympic hopeful Lily and her coach onboard, the coach is killed and Lily severely injured. Lily's operated on by neurosurgeon Dr. Jessie Mathews, who determines that the girl's spinal-cord injury means that Lily will never walk again, much less compete in the Olympics. Lily's single-parent father, Bill, is devastated, since Lily has been his life after his wife's death. Unbeknownst to Jessie, while she's operating on Lily, her husband, Tim, and son Jimmy are in a car accident. Tim dies instantly; Jimmy survives without injury. While Jessie works to keep her four children from despair, Bill first goes through total denial, and then, when Jessie's diagnosis is confirmed by other doctors and Lily is in Denver's Craig Hospital, he decides to build Lily Pad, a center for young spinal-cord patients. Steel's unflinching look at the highs and lows of Bill's and Jessie's lives will leave readers crying and cheering.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 6, 2014
      Just as the title suggests, the prolific Steele’s latest effort is all about victory in the face of adversity. Relating the troubles of six people—including a neurosurgeon, a psychologist, and an aspiring ski champion—attempting to overcome their own, unique battles, this novel is a weighty challenge for even the most seasoned of performers. Luckily, Miller delves deep into his vocal bag of tricks to deliver a stand-out performance that features a host of fully realized characters. Miller’s subtle shifts in tone give his character interpretations nuance and believability. His reading is well paced and lively, making this audio edition even more enjoyable than the print edition. A Delacorte hardcover.

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