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Author
Series
Rabbit factor volume 1
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 quarters...
Publisher
Canyon Arms
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
A nostalgic and melancholic historical documentary that explains the origin as well as the end of Riverview Amusement Park in Des Moines, Iowa. The DVD details what circumstances brought about the idea of the park, who the founders were, and why the location was picked. It traces the park through it's 63 year history and details the setbacks and struggles few people today know about with pictures and specific details. Several photos and film clips...
Author
Series
Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs mysteries volume 1
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Rabbit factor volume 2
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and you YouMeFun, the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears - and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park's equipment supplier is taken over by a shady trio with confusing demands. Why won't Toy of Finland Ltd sell the new Moose Chute to Henri when he nees it as the park's main attraction? Meanwhile, Henri's relationship...
Publisher
Universal Studios & Amblin Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two years following the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now includes a completely functioning dinosaur theme park, as once envisioned by John Hammond. After ten years of operation and decline in visitors, a unique attraction is designed to ignite visitor's interest, which fails horribly.
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this enchanting sequel to the No. 1 best seller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Annie - the little girl Eddie saved on Ruby Pier--and the five people she meets in heaven, where she is reunited with Eddie in a surprising and unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect"--
"In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's...
9) Nope
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
10) Joyland
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Westworld, where the puppet show is over and the newly liberated 'hosts' are coming for humankind. In Season Two, Dolores takes charge, Maeve is on a mission and the Man in Black is back. Chaos takes control in this dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life, and the evolution of sin.
Series
Edens zero volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At Granbell Kingdom, an abandoned amusement park , Shiki has lived his entire life among the machines. But one day, Rebecca and her cat companion Happy appear at the park's front gates. Little do these newcomers know that this is the first human contact Granbell has had in a hundred years! As Shiki stumbles his way into making new friends, his former neighbors stir at an opportunity for a robo-rebellion... And when his old homeland becomes too dangerous,...
Author
Series
Richard Stark's Parker volume 4
Publisher
IDW Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Parker is put to the test against crooked cops and sleazy gangsters after a heist goes south. He finds himself trapped in an amusement park closed for the winter and embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse...a game that slowly starts to favor the mouse.
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