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Publication Date
2021.
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Selling her corn fritters at a carnival, Deputy Donut Café owner Emily Westhill faces off against a murderer who doesn't play fair... Emily and her assistant, Nina, are looking forward to manning the Deputy Donut tent at the Faker's Dozen Carnival in Fallingbrook, Wisconsin--a festival held on Friday the thirteenth to celebrate good and bad luck. But Emily has barely dropped the corn fritters in oil when bad luck boils up. First, their bucket of...
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2022.
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135 pages ; 18 cm
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Under the constant lights of the carnival, Daniel and his parents travel the east coast selling funnel cakes. But after his mother disappears, Daniel becomes the sole caretaker of his father's nightmares. As the pressures of his father's increasing violence and the nagging mystery of his mother's disappearance build, Daniel begins to question his place in the carnival. Told in vignettes, The Circle That Fits unfolds the complexities of childhood with...
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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℗2008
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14 audio discs (17 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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They're out there waiting. Watching. Unseen by normal eyes, but all too visible to Slim MacKenzie, a young man blessed - or cursed - by Twilight Eyes?They're out there lurking in the darkest shadows of an eerie, moonlit carnival. Feeding their twisted needs with human suffering and fiendishly plotting the downfall of the human race. They're out there but don't scream. They'll hear you.
5) Menagerie
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Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 1
Publication Date
2015.
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429 pages ; 25 cm
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When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she discovers a fierce, sharp-clawed creature lurking just beneath her human veneer. Captured and put on exhibition, Delilah in her black swan burlesque costume "performs" in town after town. Despite the breathtaking beauty behind the seamy and grotesque reality of the carnival and despite the kindness of the cryptic handler Gallagher, she and her fellow menagerie of mermaids,...
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume Prequel
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Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.
7) Spectacle
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Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 2
Publication Date
[2017]
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392 pages ; 21 cm.
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"When their coup of Metzger's Menagerie is discovered, Delilah and her fellow cryptids find their newly won freedom brutally stripped away as they are sold into The Savage Spectacle, a private collection of "exotic wildlife." Specializing in ruthless cryptid cage matches, safari-style creature hunts and living party favors, the Spectacle's owner, Willem Vandekamp, caters to the forbidden fetishes of the wealthy and powerful. At the Spectacle, any...
8) Carousel Sun
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Carousel novels volume 2
Publication Date
2014.
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pages cm
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Kate Archer, owner and operator of the vintage wooden carousel, is caught up in the excitement - and is quite possibly the cause of it. Because Kate leads a double life, as a carny and as the Guardian of the land. Her recent return to the home she had forsaken has changed the town's luck for the better and energized the trenvay, the earth and water spirits who are as much citizens of the Beach as their mundane counterparts.
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Knights and bikes volume 3
Publication Date
2023.
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216 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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"A new mystery has rolled onto Penfurzy Island, and the Rebel Bicycle Club are ready to investigate! Nessa, Demelza, and their goose, Captain Honkers, are excited to explore a traveling carnival that's come to Penfurzy, and soon they befriend Jack, the son of the carnival owner. But strange things are happening too, like odd tremors that shake the island! Does it have anything to do with the fact that the carnival comes to Penfurzy only every ten...
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2022.
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390 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm
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"When 6-year-old empath Leah Fern-once "The Youngest and Very Best Fortune Teller in the World"-is abandoned by her beautiful magician mother, she is consumed with longing for her mother's return. Until something bizarre happens: On her 21st birthday Leah receives an inheritance from someone she doesn't even know, and finds herself launched on a journey of magical discovery. It's a voyage that will spiral across the United States, Canada, into the...
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Weirdbey Island volume 3
Publication Date
2020.
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205 pages ; 21 cm
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"A spooky carnival. A haunted house that isn't what it seems. A dangerous truth waiting to be uncovered. Something terrible is haunting Dylan Wylde; an ominous figure in the woods that could ruin his life forever. Just when he thinks things can't get worse, a strange carnival comes to town, and something dark lurks behind its bright twinkling lights. Something sinister. Something that has the ghosts of Weirdbey Island seriously spooked. Phantoms...
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2025.
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276 pages ; 24 cm
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A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from a master of literary horror. It's 1915 and the world is transforming, but for thirteen-year-old Bolt and Eleanor-twins so close they can literally read each other's minds-life is falling apart. When their mother dies, they are forced to leave home under the care of a vicious con man who claims...
13) What a dog knows
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Ruby Heartwood has spent her life running away. Away from the orphanage where she was left as a newborn, away from those who exploited her, and away from the man who raped her. She ran from child welfare authorities as a runaway and teenage mother. She's never stayed put. She's never felt connected. Until now. Ruby is a psychic, a fortune teller. She has spent most of her life working at street fairs, carnivals, and the odd Renaissance Faire. Of late,...
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"Children and animals come together at a magical late night carnival."-- Provided by publisher.
Take a luminous bedtime journey through the summery dreamworld of a restless baby. On a hot summer night, Mother Moon soothes a little star baby who won't go to sleep. With her magic, she spins a warm, lyrical tale of friendship and fun: a dreamy summer evening set beneath a blanket of twinkling stars as children and forest friends with balloons enjoy...
15) Full tilt
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When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
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Publication Date
[2026]
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370 pages ; 24 cm
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"The human 'oddities' in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum's golden ticket--until she's rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl...
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[2020]
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196 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"Before Batman trained him to be Robin, Dick Grayson was star of his family of trapeze artists, but when an enchanting new attraction opens nearby and threatens to lure away their remaining customers, Dick is among those drawn to its magical glow and may be too mesmerized to recognize the dangers ahead."--Provided by publisher.
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