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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...
3) Circus Train
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Circus Train pulls in to town, and each kind of animal is in it's own brightly colored car.
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Ruinous love trilogy volume 3
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English
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Doctor Fionn Kane is running from a broken heart, one he hopes to mend in small-town Nebraska, far away from his almost-fiancé and his derailed surgical career. It’s a simpler life: head down, hard work, and absolutely no romantic relationships. He wants none of the circus he left behind in Boston. But then the real circus finds him. Motorcycle performer Rose Evans has spent a decade on the road with the Silveria Circus, and it suits her just fine,...
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Louise Trapeze volume 1
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[2015]
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English
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"Six-year-old Louise Trapeze lives at the circus and can't wait to fly on the trapeze--until she discovers that she is afraid of heights"-- Provided by publisher.
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Three-ring rascals volume 1
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2013.
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Two mice and a crow, who travel with a circus, cleaning up the spilled popcorn after every performance, come to the rescue when a greedy con artist takes over the management of the circus.
10) Oliver
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Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
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2010
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Legendary singer Jamie Redfern performs Hot Poppin' Popcorn, Captain Feathersword amazes as the somersault king, and Wags the daredevil dog does a balancing act while Henry and Dorothy host their own dances. Be dazzled by the gastronomic superhero Foodman and delight in Murray's Guitar Saved the World and How Are We Going to Wake Up Jeff? There's juggling, ribbon twirling, trapeze acts, handstands, wiggly clowns, and 18 of the catchiest songs in the...
13) Fleas!
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[2008]
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A cumulative tale in which Quantz, who is repaid in fleas for scratching a stray dog, makes a series of trades that turn one person's burden into the next one's joy and ultimately brings them all together for a circus performance.
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Louise Trapeze volume 2
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[2016]
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English
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Seven-year-old Louise, who performs in a trapeze act with her mother and father, finally gets an important job at the circus, but when things go wrong she wonders if she is really ready for new responsibilities.
15) Circus
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2011.
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The circus is in town! Join the performance, be a clown, try some tricks, and more with the Yo Gabba Gabba friends! Not only will kids get to sing and dance under the big top, but they will get to ride in a hot air balloon, search Gabbaland for treasure, and groove along to a party in their tummy too! It's time for a day of play with the Gabbaland friends! Includes four episodes.
16) Dumbo
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2011.
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The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
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[2013]
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When Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it was captivating. So great was his enthusiasm that a year later he applied on a whim to the training program at the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque-- and was, to his surprise, accepted. Follow the collision of one American novice and a host of gifted international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Along the way,...
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"Sixteen-year-old Sorina has spent most of her life within the smoldering borders of the Gomorrah Festival. Yet even among the many unusual members of the traveling circus-city, Sorina stands apart as the only illusion-worker born in hundreds of years. This rare talent allows her to create illusions that others can see, feel and touch, with personalities all their own. Her creations are her family, and together they make up the cast of the Festival's...
19) Wolf won't bite!
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2012.
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Three little circus pigs capture a wild wolf and make him do outrageous tricks, safe in the belief that he would never bite them.
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"In 1931, Lilly Blackwood was sold to the circus. More than two decades later, nineteen-year-old Julia Blackwood inherits her parents' estate and returns home hoping to erase painful memories of strict rules and forbidden rooms. Instead, she becomes immersed in a mystery involving a hidden attic room and circus photos featuring a striking young girl"-- Provided by publisher.
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