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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway -- a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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
Wideacre trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Concluding the bestselling trilogy that began with Wideacre and The Favored Child, this passionate story tells of a young woman's struggle from poverty to wealth in Georgian England.
Author
Series
Pentecost and Parker novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York, 1946: The last time Will Parker let a case get personal, she walked away with a broken face, a bruised ego, and the solemn promise never again to let her heart get in the way of her job. But she called Hart and Halloway's Travelling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus's tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she...
5) Geek love
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At once a highly regarded novel and an enduring cult classic, "Geek Love" is the story of the Binewskis, a carnival family of human oddities. As Dunn charts their journey across the U.S. backwaters, their Machiavellian rivalries, and their galvanic effect on gawking crowds, she takes on everything from definitions of beauty to organized religion to family values.
6) MirrorMask
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After blaming herself for her mother's illness, Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, dreams that she is in a strange world with bizarre creatures and masked inhabitants.
7) Circus girl
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flora has spent all her life in the circus. She was happy until she started dreaming about people outside the circus, the audience, and feeling afraid of them. Before the story is over, she finds out that dreams are only dreams and that people are nice, once you get to know them.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 9
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lionel Hawkins is a magician whose act is only partially sleight of hand. The rest is real magic. He's an Elemental Magician with the power to persuade the Elementals of Air to help him create amazing illusions. It doesn't take long before his assistant, acrobat Katie Langford, notices that he's no ordinary magician — and for Lionel to discover that she's no ordinary acrobat, but rather an untrained and unawakened Fire Magician. She's also on the...
10) Freaks
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 62 min.) : sd., b&w ; 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.
Author
Series
Burning Cove California volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but things are not going well. After spending her entire inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns too late that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real"--Provided by publisher....
12) La vie en rose
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A dramatic retelling of the life of Edith Piaf, considered one of the great performers of France. Raised in a brothel, taken to work in a circus by her father, and eventually abandoned by her parents, she spent her teen years on the streets. Eventually "rescued" by a crime figure who gives her career a start, she makes her way to international success, despite recurring frailty, illness, wild moods, drug and alcohol problems.
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