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Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world. He introduces us to Marlena, beautiful star of the equestrian act; to August, her charismatic but twisted husband (and the circus's animal trainer); and...
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Wideacre trilogy volume 3
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Meridon, a vagabond gypsy, allows her vague memories of a very different life, as well as the necklace that is her birthright, to lead her home to Wideacre where she takes her place as its mistress.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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354 pages ; 21 cm
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In 1940 Paris, 20-year-old Michel Bonnet, to escape the Nazis, joins the circus where he first sees Frieda - dark-haired, mysterious and also fleeing the Germans - who is harboring a secret that places him in more danger than he could ever know.
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Louise Trapeze volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
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105 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"Six-year-old Louise Trapeze lives at the circus and can't wait to fly on the trapeze until she discovers that she is afraid of heights"--
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Louise Trapeze volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
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102 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Seven-year-old Louise, who performs in a trapeze act with her mother and father, finally gets an important job at the circus, but when things go wrong she wonders if she is really ready for new responsibilities.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"Everyone in the circus loves to perform--except for Adam, the very youngest member of the Von Trapeze family. Wherever Adam Von Trapeze's family circus performs they inspire audiences with their breathtaking feats. Grandma Antonia breathes fire, Uncle Artem builds dizzying human pyramids, and Papa Alexei and Mama Anastasia dance blindfolded on the tightrope. Only Adam, the youngest of the family, doesn't show an interest in circus tricks and loud...
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"In 1911, Mabel MacGinnis is Europe's strongest woman and has performed beside her father in the Manzo Brothers Circus her entire life. But at his unexpected death, she loses everything she's ever known and sets off in the company of acrobat Jake Cunningham for America in hope of finding the mother she's just discovered is still alive. Isabella Moreau, the nation's most feted aerialist, has given everything to the circus. But age and injury now threaten...
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Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 6
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Socialite Phyrne Fisher tries to discover who is sabotaging Farrell's Circus.
14) The circus ship
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When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. So well do the critters blend in that when the greedy circus owner returns to claim them, villagers of all species conspire to outsmart the bloated blowhard.
15) Fleas
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Pub. Date
2008
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[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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A cumulative tale in which Quantz, who is repaid in fleas for scratching a stray dog, makes a series of trades that turn one person's burden into the next one's joy and ultimately brings them all together for a circus performance.
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Louise Trapeze volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
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99 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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A young circus performer has a habit of losing things but she is determined to keep her very loose tooth.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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"The first major biography of P.T. Barnum in a generation, a vivid account of the forefather of American entertainment. P.T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever seen: the cocreator of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the man who made worldwide sensations of Jumbo the Elephant, General Tom Thumb, and the "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind. He was the champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and "humbug." He was, as Barnum argues, one of the most...
20) Freaks (1932)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers.
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