Gombač, Žiga X.
Summary: "Everyone in the circus loves to perform--except for Adam, the very youngest member of the Von Trapeze family. Wherever Adam Von Trapeze's family circus performs they inspire audiences with their breathtaking feats. Grandma Antonia breathes fire, Uncle Artem builds dizzying human pyramids, and Papa Alexei and Mama Anastasia dance blindfolded on the tightrope. Only Adam, the youngest of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOMPeters, Stephanie True
Summary: In this graphic novel loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," an orphaned bear cub named Glee finds a new home in a traveling circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARHetherington, Nydia
Summary: "Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HETGruen, Sara.
Summary: 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUBarnett, Mac
Summary: To escape a burning building, Zapfino must confront the fears that forced him out of the circus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARGruen, Sara.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GruMorgenstern, Erin.
Summary: A circus, titled Le Cirque des Reve, comes to town out of the blue and without warning. Within its tents, young magicians Celia and Marco compete to be the best, having done so since childhood. However, under the backdrop of their intense rivalry, a blossoming romance develops.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMorgenstern, Erin.
Summary: 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 / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morgenstern 2010Carnahan, Matthew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCarter, Angela
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARDeutsch, Stacia
Summary: Lucky, Abigail, and Pru are traveling to a circus exhibition with El Circo dos Grillos where Pru gets to perform a clown act, but Catalina keeps acting like her performance is going to be better than Pru's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018