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A strange carnival brings terror to the population of a small midwestern town. Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind, as has this one Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and...
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Magic misfits volume 1
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"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
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Junie B. Jones series volume 5
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Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume Prequel
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Go back to the start and meet thirteen-year-old, puzzle-obsessed Luigi Lemoncello! Luigi has a knack for games and puzzles. But sometimes it feels like the cards are stacked against him. Until a carnival arrives in town and Luigi gets the chance of a lifetime, the opportunity to work for the world famous Professor Marvelmous, a dazzling, banana-hat-wearing barker who puts the show in showman. When the carnival closes, Professor Marvelmous leaves behind...
8) The chef
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Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty--as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney...
9) Fat Tuesday
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"Burke Basile is a cop with nothing left to lose. Haunted by his partner's death, his marriage and his career over, he focuses on his nemesis, Pinkie Duvall, a flamboyant attorney who helps killers evade justice. Burke's shocking revenge centers around kidnapping Remy, the lawyer's trophy wife. But Burke hasn't planned on the electric attraction he'll feel for this desperate woman, who rose from the slums of New Orleans to marry a man she can never...
10) Empty smiles
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"It's been three months since Ollie made a daring deal with the smiling man to save those she loved, and then vanished without a trace. The smiling man promised Coco, Brian and Phil, that they'd have a chance to save her, but as time goes by, they begin to worry that the smiling man has lied to them and Ollie is gone forever. But finally, a clue surfaces. A boy who went missing at a nearby traveling carnival appears at the town swimming hole, terrified...
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My weirder school volume 9
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Ella Mentry is having a fund-raiser, and guess who's in charge? Alexia's mom, Ms. Sue! The school's selling everything from popcorn to goldfish to raise money for a new playground. But when happens when Ms. Sue crosses the line? Someone's going to end up in the big house! -- Back cover.
12) Secrets
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"With their restoration shop, Cullen and Luna Bodman often find themselves unraveling mysteries for their clients. The old steamer chest Cullen receives is fascinating in its own right. But inside, Cullen discovers a locked diary to be restored to its rightful owner. Luna's budding relationship with U.S. Marshall Christopher Gaines comes under strain as he tries to talk her out of a wild goose chase. But intuition pushes her on, unveiling a surprising...
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"The cinematic return follows the Crawleys and their staff as they welcome a movie crew and their glamorous stars to Downton for the filming of a new silent movie, while other members of the family go on a grand adventure to a villa in the south of France to uncover a mystery about the Dowager Countess and her past"--Container.
14) Carnival quest
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Candy shop war volume 3
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"Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon know the third and most diabolical White sibling, Camila, is still at large. When she finally makes her move, it comes in the form of the Dreams and Screams International Carnival arriving at their small California town. Rumors quickly spread about those visiting the carnival feeling compelled to return, visitors to the labyrinthine Funhouse disappearing for days, and the Big Top being truly bewitching. When nightmares...
15) Carnival magic
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Other side (Amy Ephron) volume 2
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While visiting Aunt Evie in Devon-by-the-Sea, England, Tess and Max are whisked away by a magical carnival in need of rescue.
16) Nightmare alley
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From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
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Incredibly dead pets of Rex Dexter volume 1
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"Cursed by an old carnival game, sixth-grader Rex Dexter uses his new ability to communicate with dead animals to investigate the mysterious deaths of endangered zoo animals"--
19) Before she dies
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"No one knows about defense attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered sister, or about her childhood spend with the carnival that's just arrived in town. For Charlotte, what's past is past. But others don't agree. And as a madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal..." -- P. 4 of cover.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 4
A Merlin mission volume 4
Magic tree house Merlin missions volume 4
A Merlin mission volume 4
Magic tree house Merlin missions volume 4
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A chilling rescue mission! Merlin the magician and Morgan le Fay have disappeared! To find them, Jack and Annie journey with their friends Teddy and Kathleen to the Land-Behind-the-Clouds, a frozen kingdom of ice and snow. There they find out that the Ice Wizard has stolen Merlin's Staff of Strength, and he won't give it back until Jack and Annie find his missing eye! If Jack and Annie don't return with the Ice Wizard's eye before sunrise, Merlin...
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