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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...
Author
Series
Night Prince volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Mimi steps into the spotlight in this charming debut with an emotional heart. If you were to imagine an extraordinary moment of destiny, I bet you wouldn't imagine it in a kitchen on a particularly ordinary Wednesday. I bet you wouldn't imagine a plate of cheese and crackers or a replacement best friend--but this was my moment. Because when my Dad left to be a trick high diver in Mr. Morelli's Big Top Circus Extravaganza, he left his ordinary life...
5) Untamed
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Language
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...
6) Geek love
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Language
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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) Circus performer
Author
Series
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
11) Freaks
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (62 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of freaks take revenge on a trapeze artist and her boyfriend after years of abuse. Filmed using real circus performers.
14) Embrace me
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
[Cinema Guild]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
On a winding mountain road, Vittorio stops to help Kate, whose car has broken down. After gallantly making the repair, without a single word spoken, he speeds off. When their paths cross again, Vittorio learns that Kate has returned to join her family's traveling circus after leaving under mysterious conditions many years ago. Intrigued by her story, Vittorio stays for the show, and the next one, and little by little is integrated into the circus...
Author
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A hostile stranger is hunting Dr. Show's ramshackle travelling circus across 1960s America. His target: the ringmaster himself. Struggling to elude the menace, Dr. Show scraps his ambitious itinerary, ticket sales plummet, and nothing but disaster looms. The troupe's unravelling hopes fall on their latest and most promising recruit, Webern Bell, a sixteen-year-old stunted hunchback devoted obsessively to perfecting the surreal clown performances...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (77 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Two men on a park bench discuss the story of Cesare, a sleep-walking circus performer under the control of the murderous Dr. Caligari. But all, of course, is not quite as it seems. Silent film from 1920.
Author
Series
Three thieves volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dessa, Topper and Fisk are still running from the Queen's Dragons and trying to find Dessa's missing twin brother. But when Dessa inadvertently rescues a prince putting kingdoms at stake and love on the line the adventure quickly becomes a royal mess!
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