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The Rescue Paperback – February 16, 2021

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In this heartfelt Southern love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook, a daring fireman rescues a single mom—and learns that falling in love is the greatest risk of all.

When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: he can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over and the relationship starts to become truly intimate.

When a raging storm hits his small Southern town, single mother Denise Holton's car skids off the road. The young mom is with her four-year-old son Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Taylor McAden finds her unconscious and bleeding, but does not find Kyle. When Denise wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them. Kyle is gone. During the search for Kyle, a connection between Taylor and Denise takes root. But Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others.
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With over 100 million copies of his books sold, Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers. His novels include sixteen #1 New York Times bestsellers, and all of his books, including Three Weeks with My Brother, the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah, have been New York Times and international bestsellers, and were translated into more than fifty languages. Eleven of Nicholas Sparks's novels—The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven, The Lucky One, The Last Song, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle—have been adapted into major motion pictures.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing; Reissue edition (February 16, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1538705435
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1538705438
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1 x 8.13 inches
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Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 130 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 92 million copies in the United States alone.

Eleven of Nicholas Sparks's novels—The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven, The Lucky One, The Last Song, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle—have been adapted into major motion pictures. The Notebook has also been adapted into a Broadway musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2002
    THE RESCUE by Nicholas Sparks
    The book opens with a horrific storm, and Denise Holton is driving home on the highway with her son Kyle. She loses control of the car and ends up in an accident, losing consciousness. If it hadn't been for volunteer fireman Taylor McAden coming to the rescue, she would have surely died.
    As Taylor is seeing to it that Denise is ok, Denise looks behind her car seat for her son Kyle, and discovers he is missing. The back door is open, and Taylor admits he did not know there was a boy in the car with her. She's in a panic, mainly because Kyle is not a normally adjusted child. For some unknown reason, Kyle has a problem with language, and will not come if someone were to call out his name. Knowing this, the search for Kyle would be impossible, especially since the car crash was near a swampy area known to lose people in normal weather. The odds of finding Kyle were pretty slim.
    Denise is taken to the hospital, while the search continues for the young 5-year old. Taylor, who seems to have the gift of finding and rescuing people, miraculously finds Kyle hiding in a duck blind, unharmed. Mother and son are reunited.
    Denise and Taylor develop a mutual attraction for each other, and slowly they start up a friendship that soon becomes a romance. Taylor seems to be the man of Denise's dreams, and to top it off he loves Kyle. Most persons who have met Kyle are awkward with him, because of his speech impediments and his learning disabilities. But, not Taylor. He treats little Kyle as a normal healthy boy, and soon Kyle becomes attached to his mother's new friend. Taylor is Kyle's hero and the father he never had. Denise watches as Kyle begins to develop better language skills and he does things he never was able to do before. He plays catch with Taylor. He rides on roller coasters. Kyle's life is totally changed. He slowly comes out of his shell.
    In the meantime, Denise and Taylor become closer. Things are going wonderfully well until they attend a party held by Taylor's closest friends Mitch and Melissa. Mitch is his childhood friend and together they are part of the volunteer fireman group. Melissa is like the sister Taylor never had, and she teases him throughout the gathering, asking whether he is going to marry Denise. Taylor reacts by choking on his food, and becomes distant the rest of the evening.
    Unsurprisingly, their relationship turns for the worse. Instead of seeing Denise every day and every night, Taylor uses work as an excuse for not coming by. He shuts her out, just as he did with every other girlfriend he's had. But, the difference between the other women and Denise is that Taylor really loves Denise, and he had felt that she was someone special in his life. So, why the change in behavior? Denise spends many nights in tears, wondering what had happened to the relationship that she so hesitantly opened her heart to. After years of not trusting any man to come into her life, she decided to trust Taylor.
    Obviously, there was a reason for Taylor's turnabout behavior. No one knows why he is unable to commit to any woman, but Denise eventually finds out. It's a tragic past that has held Taylor a prisoner, and it is up to those around him to set him free.
    I thoroughly enjoyed THE RESCUE. I've read a number of books by Nicholas Sparks, and I have to say that this is one of my favorites so far. For those of you who enjoy a good romance and tearjerker, this one is for you.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2024
    It was a great read would read it again
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2025
    This is a great read. Love all his books. He is a great author. Goal is to read them all.
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2025
    I enjoyed how the characters were developed.
    I certainly had to know what happened.
    This book makes you think and brought tears to my eyes more than once.
    A must read!
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2024
    Enjoyed the story line and how everything wasn’t perfect but it ended up that way for the most part. Definitely recommend
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2013
    I've heard so many people hyping this author, and really enjoyed the movie I saw made from one of his books (The Lucky One), so I thought I'd give him a read. But it was very quickly evident that the scriptwriters are better writers than the author. I'll give him kudos for having the basics down. None of the spelling and grammar errors that are rampant these days in the self-pubbed stuff.

    Also, his concept was good, so I'll give him props for that.

    What he's lacking in a lot of ways is the ability to show, rather than tell -- he rambles on forever, explaining the characters' emotions, to the point where I would just skip past several pages at a time -- and then find he was still on the same topic. Sometimes he'd spend 8 or 10 pages hammering on a point that he could have made in one or two sentences of action rather than repetitive exposition.

    He does the same thing with other info. The book includes a child who has difficulty with language. This is obvious the first time we "see" the child, but the author goes on and on... and ON at the beginning of the book about it, and then later on, has the child's mother going on even longer about it, and explaining every step of the process she uses to work on the issue with him -- which at that point in the book was completely irrelevant. Worse, every time the child speaks, we get it twice. Once in quotes, followed by the same thing, rendered phonetically, in parentheses -- just in case we missed the fact that he has language issues.

    Part of the problem may be that the author has difficulty prioritizing. Words are a bit like money, in the writing process -- you have to choose where you want to spend them, and try to get the most "bang for the buck," rather than just spending them randomly.

    No spoilers, but there is a point at the very end of the book, where a crisis triggers serious issues for one of the protagonists. At that point the pacing is better, and the author begins to makes better choices about prioritizing. I felt as if the book would have made a decent novella or short -- everything before that crisis point could easily have been condensed into a chapter or two.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2022
    This was quite a story. Another Nicholas Sparks classic. And I hadn’t read it before and it was copyrighted in 2000. I read a lot but I save these books for when I really need a boost. There are many good authors writing books today, there just aren’t many (If any) that can even be compared to Sparks.
    What I really enjoy about his books are that they are all different in Heroes and heroines and the stories that they tell. Somehow he keeps writing these stories without ever repeating himself. I’m in awe that not only that he does it, but that anyone can do it. Probably 90+% of the authors today can not do what he does.
    This story constantly brought tears to my eyes. And it was an educational story also in that Kyle was disadvantaged and that there was no name for what was his challenge. Then on top of rest of the story was the love story about a broken man, Taylor and the woman, Denise who finally helped him.
    And he also writes beautiful love scenes that aren’t crude or obscene. And again 90+% of the authors today can’t do that.
    I could continue forever with what I enjoy about these books but I’m going to stop and encourage you the reader to read, enjoy and also promote his books.
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  • Dianne (Frew) Gerritsen
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
    Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2024
    Nicholas Sparks has a way of inviting you in so you experience all the highs, and lows, of the characters he’s writing about.
    I throughly enjoyed this book and totally recommend it.
  • Simone Bonse
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amor e superação!!
    Reviewed in Brazil on July 12, 2020
    Muito bom! Com muita sensibilidade, o autor nos apresenta uma história cativante, na qual o amor é a chave para a superação!!!
  • Gabriel Lara
    4.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro, no el mejor de NS
    Reviewed in Mexico on June 5, 2018
    es un buen libro, la trama entretenida aunque a mi criterio no es de los mejores de Nicholas Sparks, sin duda es un genio para las novelas románticas sin duda hay otros libros mejores de el mismo, aún así sigue siendo un excelente libro
  • Florence B.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fast delivery
    Reviewed in France on June 11, 2019
    As always everything went well.
  • Maria Jose
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nicholas Sparks es de los mejores escritores de novela romántica
    Reviewed in Spain on November 29, 2018
    Historia preciosa