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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...
2) 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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English
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"In 1911, Europe's strongest woman, Mabel MacGinnis, loses everything she's ever known and sets off for America in hopes of finding the mother she's just discovered is still alive. When circus aerialist Isabella Moreau's daughter suddenly appears, she is forced to face the truth of where, and in what, she derives her worth"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
American journalist Jack Walser travels with an enchanted circus that features literate chimpanzees, tragic clowns, idealist brigands, a structuralist Siberian shaman, and a six-foot, two-inch blond aerialist who is part swan and part woman.
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
During the Civil War, a young man battles Indians, bandits and deserters as he escorts two camels, loaded with war loot across Kansas and Missouri. On the way he meets a boy who turns out to be a girl and falls in love.
10) Embrace me
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Devoid of romantic prospects, Valentine enjoys a deepening friendship with a quadriplegic companion and learns the story of a scarred local with mysterious ties to a traveling circus.
12) The night circus
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
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Publisher
Viking/Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Combining images and terms for different kinds of pastas and varying circus performers, this book will teach young ones those concepts along with highlighting the alphabet.
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Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother's footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl. Kathleen bonds with the exotic animals that could strike and kill...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother"--Amazon.com.
19) Flyboy
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"After an incident at his school leaves closeted trans teenager Asher Sullivan needing stitches, his mother betrays him in the worst possible way-she sends him to Catholic school for his senior year. Now he has to contend with hideous plaid skirts, crankynuns, and #bathroomJesus. Nighttime brings an escape for Asher when he dreams of the Midnight Circus-the one place where he is seen for the boy he truly is. Too bad it exists only in his sleep. At...
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