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21) Carousel Kids
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Thirteen year-old Walter and his friend Chris are computer geniuses. Walter's younger brother, Tommy, is not; he prefers pizza and Super Mario to hard drives and gigabytes. That has never stopped the three from being close, until recently. Since the start of the school year Walter has been distant, locked in his room working on some top secret project with Chris.One Friday night, the week before Halloween, a loud crash in the middle of the night draws...
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Español
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This title looks at the history of water rides and the exciting splash-makers they are today. Readers will learn that early water slides were quite large and ran into lakes. Log shoots and flumes find their beginnings in dark water rides, like the Tunnel of Love and other river rides. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.
23) The Carousel
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xiv, 349 pages ; 21 cm
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Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow are two young people in love. Michael attends college and works at the Arcadia nursing home while Faye prepares for medical school in Baltimore. The future seems rife with possibilities. Forgiveness and faith must be at the heart of their journey.
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"An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to its secrets, and the woman whose search for meaning unearths it all. American photographer Cady Drake shoots local merry-go-rounds, a hobby inspired by a carved wooden rabbit gifted to her following her troubled years in foster care. Now at a crisis point in her life, Cady can't refuse a freelance assignment documenting the antique carousels of Paris. While there, she hopes to track down the true origins...
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Athena, yes, that one, the goddess of wisdom, courage, justice, and skill, is spoiled and pampered and has a habit of stomping her foot when not getting her way. But what else is expected in a teenager?
Even at the tender age of thirteen, excuse me, thirteen and four months, Athena sees injustice and cruelty in the human world below as well as her beloved Olympus. Mythological creatures are being treated horribly, and many have already disappeared...
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A boy born with faerie sight.A journey into the world of the dead.A place darker than anything he could have imagined and filled with creatures that make the fey above ground seem like things from children's tales.This is the story of Makin Riley, a curious boy, whose obsession with faeries and monsters leads him to a cemetery that holds the doorway to the world of the dead. After being spotted by one of the reapers that travels between the worlds,...
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The fiction and reportage included in The Last Carousel, one of the final collections published during Nelson Algren's lifetime, was written on ships and in ports of call around the world, and includes accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of Algren's beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects. In this collection, not just Algren's intensity but his diversity are revealed and celebrated.
38) On The Carousel
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ON THE CAROUSEL is the story of a young man's journey through the London of the 1980s, against the background of Thatcherism and Madonna and Cabbage Patch Dolls, as he enjoys the benefits of success, but then starts to re-assess his values and priorities.
In the early hours of New Year's Day 1980, Adam Gough, a recent graduate, whose career was put on hold following a traumatic event the previous year, is walking home through the deserted City of...
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Writer Timothy Upshaw thought the case of the "Haney House Murders" was closed when Donald Haney confessed to killing his family and Upshaw's sister. However, when his sister, Sara, is reportedly spotted in "The Haney House of Horrors" ten years later, Upshaw swiftly returns to the hometown he fled from. In the process, he learns that what happened in the Haney House was just the beginning–there's a much greater evil out there.
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