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Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
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English
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Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers....
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Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure park's equipment supply company ... Things are messier than ever in the absurdly funny, heart-stoppingly tense second instalment in Antti Tuomainen's bestselling series...
‘In these uncertain times, what better hero than an actuary?' Chris Brookmyre
‘The antic novels of Antti
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English
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Fourteen contestants, including Mack, a homeless shelter resident who lost everything, embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide-and-seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated.
"The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything. Even though everyone is desperate to win-to seize a dream...
4) Swamplandia!
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2011
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English
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Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon...
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Scholastic Inc
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English
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Boone and Heather are going to summer camp, with man-eating snakes and disappearing campers. Things get worse when Boone joins eleven other guests at Horrorland because something's wrong with the bumper-car ride called the R.I.P.P.E.R.
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The kids trapped in HorrorLand thought they had reason enough to panic. That was before they reached Panic Park - a perilous place that makes HorrorLand seem like HappyLand. Now they must find a way to end this scary journey, once and for all. All of HorrorLand's shocking secrets will finally be revealed ... but can the kids ever make it out alive?
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Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother - its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal...
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"Ray Gordon loves to scare his younger brother, Brandon. It's not hard considering Brandon is terrified of everything--loud noises, roller coasters, and especially the wooden dummy, Slappy, that Ray got from Jonathan Chiller's HorrorLand gift shop. In order to throw his big New Year's Eve party, Ray's parents make him promise to leave Brandon alone. But strange, mean-spirited things keep happening to his little brother, and Slappy always seems to...
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"Jillian and Jackson freak out when they suddenly can read people's thoughts. But the trick turns to terror when the twins are stalked by a strange scientist who wants to know exactly what's on their minds. Will the twins ever lead normal lives again?"--Page 4 of cover.
12) Heads, you lose!
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English
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Jessica and her best friend, Ryan, find the perfect HorrorLand souvenir --a two-headed coin with mysteriously dark powers. After an unlucky flip of the coin, they find themselves in a strange land being chased down by angry guards. HorrorLand was scary but this is much worse. Will they be able to escape?
13) Joyland
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English
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Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Do you want to fly in the sky with a winged reptile? Are you up to racing against dinosaurs? Are you ready to learn from the greatest dinosaur trainer of all time? If you answered YES to any of the above, then you are ready to survive Jurassic World! I'm Owen Grady, and I'm here to take you on a dino-tastic adventure. So strap on your boots, hop on your bike, and stick with me if you don't want to go extinct!"--Back cover.
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English
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"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell...
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Raised in a quiet rural community, Anna has always been taught that her mamma's rules are the only path to follow. But, on her 18th birthday, she defies her mamma for the first time in her life and goes to Astroland. She's never been allowed to visit Florida's biggest theme park, so why, when she arrives, does everything about it seem so familiar? And is there a connection to the mysterious letter she receives that same day--a letter addressing her...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Lauren Fox is the bookkeeper for Cold World, a tourist destination that's always a winter wonderland despite being located in humid Orlando, Florida. Sure, it's ranked way below any of the trademarked amusement parks, and maybe foot traffic could be better. But it's a fun place to work, even if 'fun' isn't exactly Lauren's middle name. Her coworker Asa Williamson, on the other hand, is all about finding ways to enliven his days at Cold World--whether...
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Sinister summer series volume 1
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English
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Twins Theo and Alexander and their sister Wil are abruptly dropped off at their Aunt Saffronia's house, where they learn they must complete a series of tasks in order to see their parents again--and their first assignment is at a waterpark.
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