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1) Menagerie
Author
Series
Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 1
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
429 pages ; 25 cm
Description
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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Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 18 cm
Description
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...
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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...
Author
Publication Date
℗2008
Physical Desc
14 audio discs (17 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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) Empty smiles
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 4
Publication Date
2022.
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Description
"When the carnival arrives in town Coco, Brian, and Phil must work together to save Ollie from the smiling man"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Candy shop war volume 3
Publication Date
2023.
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Description
When the third White sibling brings a carnival to town, giving everyone who visited strange nightmares and weird dreams, the Blue Falcons, with a host of new candies, must tap into the power of their own dreams to battle their greatest adversary yet.
Author
Publication Date
1982, c1949
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
David Harper was an orphan, lonely and impoverished. But his longing to embrace the world that abandoned him was stronger than the harsh realities. Even his experiences as a con man and petty thief at a carnival did not destroy his dreams. For it was there that David learned about love and about women--all of whom taught him the riches of himself.
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
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Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
9) Lili
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R, "Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets."--Back of container.
11) Spectacle
Author
Series
Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 2
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"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...
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
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Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
14) 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.
15) 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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Series
Magic Misfits volume 1
Publication Date
2017.
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Description
"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume Prequel
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Description
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.
18) I am mighty!
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Series
Princess Truly (An Acorn Book) volume 6
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
In rhyming text, Princess Truly uses her strength and her magical curls to help her friends, rescue her dog from a tire swing, and win a prize at the carnival.
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Series
Problim children (Series) volume 2
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
With their scheming neighbor Desdemona O'Pinion attempting to turn the Problim children against each other, the siblings come together to save the carnival and rescue their mother.
Author
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustration, map ; 21 cm
Description
"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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