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An accomplished executive with a troubled past navigates a new relationship with her boss . . . but she's about to learn that love is a roller coaster ride.To the world, amusement park executive Hailey Ashton is a woman on her way up. Few know that beneath her tough exterior, she leads a life of quiet emptiness in the shadow of her gorgeous sister. Then Hailey meets Tyler Scott, her wealthy, self-assured new boss and the single father...
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Before seeing Jurassic World film this June read the original, multimillion copy number 1 bestselling thriller that inspired the first major motion picture Jurassic Park. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the...
3) Joyland
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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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Emmett Maguire wants to be country music's biggest gay superstar. First step: stay with his aunt in Jackson Hollow, Tennessee this summer, and perform at Wanda World, the amusement park owned by his idol, country music legend Wanda Jean Stubbs. Luke Barnes, a Jackson Hollow resident, is the grandson of Verna Rose, the disgraced country singer who had a famous falling out with Wanda Jean. As medical bills pile up at home, hes forced to accept a job...
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Didi Dodo future spy volume 3
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"When Didi Dodo and her friends hear that the queen was kidnapped by a human, they pose as a family while searching for her at a new, human-themed amusement park"--OCLC.
6) Swamplandia!
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2011
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Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. 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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The threat of blackmail lures sixteen-year-old aspiring photographer Ava and nine other teens--all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost--to an abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier, and when bad weather and magic cut them off from the mainland, Ava and the others begin turning on each other, one by one.
Ava is one of ten people invited to the abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier. The invitation makes it clear that a someone...
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Kingdom keepers volume 2
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750L
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When the evil Overtakers gain control of a computer server at the Magic Kingdom, allowing them to put the holographic hosts into permanent comas if they should fall asleep, Finn and the others race against time to find the missing Jez and foil the plan.
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2023.
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"She has a to-do list a mile long and falling for her coworker isn't on it-yet somehow he's become her top priority in this romantic comedy from the author of Love in the Time of Serial Killers. 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....
11) Tricks for free
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InCryptid novel volume 7
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The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Penance, noun: 1. Punishment for past actions. 2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought. 3. See also "exile." Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail and her family still in danger, she needs to get far,...
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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...
