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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
3) Untamed
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English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a story of love under the Big Top.
After his father's death, lawyer Keane Prescott finds himself the new owner of a circus. Keane has no interest in running the show, until he meets Jovilette Wilder. The fierce lion tamer had a special bond with Keane's father, and has made it clear she wants him to leave her and the circus alone. Yet Keane finds Jo impossible to resist—and...
After his father's death, lawyer Keane Prescott finds himself the new owner of a circus. Keane has no interest in running the show, until he meets Jovilette Wilder. The fierce lion tamer had a special bond with Keane's father, and has made it clear she wants him to leave her and the circus alone. Yet Keane finds Jo impossible to resist—and...
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Night Prince volume 1
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English
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Leila, who is doomed to a life of solitude by her paranormal talents, is rescued from vampires who kidnapped her in order to exploit her gifts by rival vampire Vlad, who takes her to his castle, where passion grows between them.
5) Geek love
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English
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Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.
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House of Winslow volume 28
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English
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Joy Winslow is rescued from misery by a handsome circus performer. But her anger against those who wronged her may yet tear her world apart. House of Winslow book 28.
7) The untold
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2014.
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English
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On the run from two bounty hunters in the Australian outback of 1921, Jessie reflects on her past as a circus rider, horse thief, cattle rustler, and convict while determinedly struggling to reunite with her child.
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Wicked Women of Whitechapel volume 2
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English
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A markswoman in a London circus in Regency-era England, French expat Cecile Tremblay finds a home, family and future with her fellow performers, but when her ex-lover returns, begging for her forgiveness, she will, by teaching him about honest work -- and the right way to treat a woman.
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English
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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...
10) Embrace me
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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English
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
13) Rain village
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Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) The aerialist
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Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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First edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
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354 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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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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