The Rescue
Readers rate it 3.9 (67 on Hardcover)
352 pages · Released Apr 1, 2005 · Grand Central Publishing
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The Rescue parent’s guide: what’s inside
LGBTQ+ themes
What it offers
Positive messages
Positive role models
Educational value
A note for parents
This Nicholas Sparks romance centers on a firefighter and single mother overcoming personal trauma and building a committed relationship. While marketed as accessible fiction, it contains adult romantic content and emotional themes—including a child's disability and references to parental death—that are more appropriate for mature teens than younger readers. The story emphasizes resilience, second chances, and unconditional love, but assumes reader maturity around complex family dynamics.
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From the publisher
One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the f... One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.
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- Handicapped children
- Single mothers in fiction
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Children with disabilities in fiction
- Single mothers
- Fire fighters in fiction
- Fiction
- Handicapped children in fiction
- Children with disabilities
- Fire fighters
- Domestic fiction
- Love stories
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ISBN 9780446696128 · Grand Central Publishing