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Author
Series
Henry the cat volume 3
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Although Henry the cat learns tightrope walking only to impress the humans in his family, who have stopped paying attention to him because of their new puppy, his skill comes in handy when the puppy gets stranded on a high ledge.
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After the Great Bellini teaches young Mirette to walk the high wire, she uses her talent to free him from prison, and both resolve to help others become free.
Author
Language
English
Description
A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gathers in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Great Blondin announced that he was going to walk from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope that was more than 1,100 feet long and just 3 inches wide, hanging 160 feet above the raging river, people came from everywhere. Some came to watch him cross. Some came to watch him fall. Some thought he wouldn't show up at all. But he did show up. And he did walk across the river. And then he did something else amazing. He crossed...
8) Cirque
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Dennis?s nineteenth-century romp holds an unsolved murder over the heads of three loosely connected westbound travelers. In 1850, Sean Kelley, a young Irishman, and Angelique, an aerialist with Le Cirque de Paris, meet, fall in love, and plan to marry. Suddenly and unaccountably, Angelique goes to Connecticut to live with a wealthy aunt, leaving Sean determined to win her back by building his own circus. Sean sails to New York where, with P.T. Barnum?s...
9) Man on wire
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the high-wire walk made by Philippe Petit in 1974 between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, and how it is still considered one of history's most artistic crimes.
11) Ascension
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
12) The walk
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016], 2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
Publisher
Playaway View
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
1 video media player (57 min.) : digital ; 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
The North Star: Curious about many of the things around him, a young boy goes off to discover the more about himself and his world.
The man who walked between the towers: A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
That book woman: A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through...
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