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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
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Twenty years ago Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe, the Territories, to save his mother. Now Jack is a retired L.A. homicide detective living in Tamarack, Wisconsin. A series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago by a madman named Albert Fish; are these murders the work of a disurbed indiviual or has a mysterious force been unleashed...What causes Jack' inexplicable waking...
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"'Time travel' — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — 'Wainscotia, Wisconsin'—that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of 'rehabilitation'—but cannot resist falling...
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After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and...
4) The drifter
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Peter Ash novels volume 1
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English
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Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his ���white static,��� the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man���s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than...
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"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
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When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together next steps. Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband's cousin, who invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through the harvest. Sifting through fields of...
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In 1928, the Bonaventure Circus has become a refuge for many, but Pippa Ripley was rejected from its inner circle as a baby and is no longer content to leave the reason for that rejection unquestioned. When she receives mysterious messages from someone called the "Watchman," she is determined to find him and the connection to her birth. As Pippa's search leads her to a man seeking justice for his murdered sister and evidence that a serial killer has...
8) Take me home
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Miller's Creek, Wisconsin, 1945. Olivia Marsten never imagined she'd be a war bride. But when her childhood best friend surprises her with a marriage proposal before he leaves to serve with the Navy, she reluctantly accepts even though her heart belongs to someone else. Sparks fly the moment mysterious stranger Peter Becker lays eyes on Olivia. but Peter harbors a dark secret. The son of an American soldier, he was forced to join the Reich's...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
♭2004.
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English
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High school students Richie Cunningham and his friends, "Potsie", Ralph, and "The Fonz" head a brilliant comedic cast in 1950's Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Arnold's Drive-In is the local hangout and meeting place, and lots of hilarious, memorable and classic adventures are the results.
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CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Take a memorable trip back to the rockin' 1950s with greaser Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, Richie Cunningham and the whole gang for more rock-n-roll antics and family fun. In this season, join The Fonz and Richie on their hilarious double-date with Laverne and Shirley and don't miss Fonzie's daredevil motorcycle jump over 14 garbage cans.
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