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Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
From New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman comes another unforgettable mystery in which Leaphorn & Chee must race against the clock to solve two brutal murders.
"[Hillerman's] clowns are . . . every bit as raucous, profane, and funny as Shakespeare's."—New York
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A hard-boiled Hollywood PI has to work without a net to save Emmett Kelly from a killer who’s not clowning around: “Nostalgic fun” (Publishers Weekly).
In February 1942, Californians may be living in fear of a Japanese attack, but the show must go on. The circus is in town—unfortunately so is a killer saboteur who’s targeting the star attractions. Private detective Toby Peters is no stranger...
In February 1942, Californians may be living in fear of a Japanese attack, but the show must go on. The circus is in town—unfortunately so is a killer saboteur who’s targeting the star attractions. Private detective Toby Peters is no stranger...
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'I hoped that we might be safe but we have not seen the last of them, after all. They want more blood.'
During a performance of their new play, A Trick to Catch a Chaste Lady, Westfield's Men are sabotaged, and they find themselves in the throngs of an audience-player melee. In the midst of the rotten-vegetable battlefield, one of the audience members is found stabbed, and their masterful clown, Barnaby Gill, is discovered
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Jake Drake series volume 4
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English
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Jake remembers his second-grade class's student teacher, Miss Bruce, and how she never smiles, so Jake becomes class clown in order to try and make her smile.
5) It
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They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
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English
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A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who's bounced off the circus train, and reunites him with his clown family.
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My weirder school volume 7
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English
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When Mr. Granite falls ill, A.J. and the gang endure a wacky week with a perpetually cheerful substitute teacher who wears a clown costume, uses hand puppets to talk, and uses magic tricks to saw students in half and make them disappear.
9) Clown
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Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1954]
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
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English
13) The gospel in grease-paint: creative biblical skits for clowns, mimes, and other fools for Christ
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Piccadilly Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
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172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Clown in a cornfield volume 2
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HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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406 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims. Quinn wanted her first year of college in Philadelphia to be safe and easy. Instead, murderous clowns target her at a college party, while another goes after her father back in Missouri. Her only option is to go back home, into the cornfields where the nightmare began, and set...
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"Revenge is sweet for a killer on the loose-and it all started with the murder of Warner Pier's most hated clown.... Everyone who knew the bozo wanted him dead. Odd, then, that a complete stranger was accused of bursting Moe Davidson's balloons. But it's been a month since the miserable shop owner of Clowning Around was killed, and everybody's moving on, including Lee Woodyard. Her chocolate shop, TenHuis Chocolade, is next door to Moe's shuttered...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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Large print edition.
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315 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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Hilde Higgins has an unexplainable dislike of clowns. Trouble is, she's fallen for a handsome stockbroker who moonlights as a clown at the children's hospital. When two members of Clowns for Christ end up dead, Hilde's boyfriend becomes a suspect for murder. Has she misjudged the man she thought Adam Sawyer to be? Can Hilde solve the mystery before a Kansas twister blows all the evidence away?
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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First edition.
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344 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Sweetie Fairbairn, the doyenne of Chicago society, is known for big-hearted philanthropy and magnificent soirees in her penthouse high atop one of the city's premier boutique hotels. Dek Elstrom is hired by a mysterious man in a long limousine to investigate the death of a clown. Was it suicide--or murder? What is the connection between the dead clown and Sweetie?"--
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