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1) Sideways
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[2005]
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Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
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Wayside School volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
4) Sideways
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A pair of friends takes a road trip through wine country to celebrate Jack's final bachelor days. They indulge in a mid-life crisis consisting of wine, women and a yearning for the past, but they eventually collide with reality.
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At 24, Philip Halsey has too much of everything. His stock market investments have replicated like breeding hamsters, and his recent real estate venture seems sure to score big in the Reagan boomtime eighties. Philip's discovery that he's not the scion of old New England wealth, but rather the son of a penniless Jewish immigrant, marks the first shudder of earth beneath his feet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
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The follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways tracks the continuing story of Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack. It's seven years later. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles's mom, has suffered a stroke that's left her wheelchair-bound and wasting away in assisted-living. She desperately wants to...
11) Sideways 3 Chile
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Sideways 3 Chile follows the further adventures of Miles Raymond (played by Paul Giamatti in the now cult movie Sideways) and, to a lesser extent, his friend Jack. It's now ten years later, and Miles is a successful author, but he's still searching for something; depression has him, once again, in its taloned grip. Offered a chance to travel to the antipodean country of Chile and visit their wine regions for a magazine assignment, Miles, his world...
13) Sideways
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She's a political princess and media darling.
There's no such thing as bad publicity. Yeah, right. Tell that to the public relations firm that handles Tracy's very prominent political family. Now pushed by scandal from Boston to the boondocks, she's on the other side of the serving tray, dishing up beer and burgers, hoping no one recognizes her. But there's something very familiar-and maddeningly tempting-about the new caterer at Speakeasy.
He's...
14) Sideways
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After finding a mysterious old scientific text in her College's library, young Danni Spivey is pulled headfirst into what at first seems to be a long forgotten experiment aimed at intradimensional travel. Diving deeper into the mystery, however, she becomes a vector for a phenomenon that begins replacing her loved ones. In their place are identical facsimiles, some of which are benign, while some seem to mean her harm. Her once loving boyfriend Ogden...
15) The Sideways 8
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In the year 2053, humanity's future on Earth becomes increasingly bleak, as the environment becomes more inhospitable each passing year. Meanwhile, on Mars, colonists are struggling to survive in a hostile environment, with limited resources and little hope for establishing a thriving civilization. Against this backdrop of uncertainty, powerful billionaires are competing to establish their legacies through the commercialization of space travel and...
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: They're reunited-and the spark is reignited . . . "I'm madly in love with the Kowalskis!" -Nalini Singh, author of the Guild Hunter series
Liz Kowalski is heading home to Whitford, Maine-this time for good. Eager for time with her family, a fresh start, and some fun, she doesn't count on being rescued by the chief of police her very first night back in town. Drew is everything she's not looking for . . . so...
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When Livia Stone suddenly loses her twin brother, Jasper, she must learn to navigate her new life alone. As she faces tragedy and starts down a road toward self-destruction, Daniel enters Livia's life-at a moment when she needs it most.Standing Sideways is a poignant, relevant, and touching story of survival, courage, and compassion that will have readers crying, laughing, and most of all, debating the issues affecting the lives of parents and teens...
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Their love was like a twister, spinning sideways too fast to dodge. How could something so bewitching cause such destruction? Opposites attract in the final book of the Twirler Quartet.
Tom was the salt of the earth, straight off his family's Sandhills ranch. His cocky grin accessorized his Stetson and boots. He was slightly older and wiser, yet charming and debonair. No girl in 1968 would dare ask for more.
Linda never meant to be traditional....
19) Flying Sideways
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In his gripping, surprising, and wildly entertaining new memoir, Fred North tells the incredible true story of how he became the most famous film stunt helicopter pilot in the world.
As a young, misunderstood boy, Fred North was never a fan of the rules. Then, on an unremarkable day in 1969, a helicopter touched down in his hometown of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and turned his world upside down. Fifty years later, he's Hollywood's go-to stunt pilot with...