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 GOMChantler, Scott.
Summary: Fourteen-year-old orphaned acrobat Dessa, who is searching for her long-lost twin brother, reluctantly agrees to help Topper, the juggler of the circus she works for, and Fisk, the strongman, rob the royal treasury.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHABaker, Ellen
Summary: Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BakerGruen, 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: HighBridge 2006
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUSpencer, Minerva
Summary: When Cecile Tremblay lost everyone and everything in the French Revolution, she never imagined that she'd earn her living as a markswoman in a London circus. But Farnham's Fantastical Female Fayre has become her home, her family, and her future. Another thing Cecile never imagined was becoming entangled with the man gossip columns call The Darling of the Ton. But mere weeks after her rejection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SPEHay, Alex
Summary: "Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYDunn, Katherine
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNSpotswood, Stephen
Summary: "Someone's put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean 'Will' Parker's former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost, travel south to the circus where they find a snakepit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for ... To make matters worse the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SPOCarnahan, 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 CARHetherington, 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 HETDeWoskin, Rachel
Summary: Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, published by Penguin Group 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction DeWoskin 2019Gresham, William Lindsay
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREMorgenstern, 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 MORGruen, 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: 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 2010Macneal, Elizabeth
Summary: When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a "leopard girl" because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACChantler, Scott.
Summary: While Dessa and her two companions find refuge in a stable, the owner of the inn is making a deal with the smugglers and the Captain Drake and the royal guard ride in to the yard, causing chases, captures, mishaps, and narrow escapes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CHADeutsch, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEUQuick, Amanda
Summary: A former trapeze artist who owns a supposedly cursed villa and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a top secret invention before it's too late.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIPeters, 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 FARHarrison, Paula
Summary: Ava is a dancer with a travelling troupe of entertainers. When Clover, a little unicorn, is trapped by Sir Fitzroy and used to lure the other unicorns into danger, Ava hatches a cunning plan. She and Sophy will disguise themselves and foil Sir Fitzroy's plot, and the unicorns will be safe!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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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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Summary: Helena is a young girl growing up in the circus who longs to know what "normal" life is like. After she sees a girl who looks remarkably like her in a mirror, she is transported to a mystical land where very little makes sense. There, she befriends the mischievous Valentine, and together they attempt to get her home.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006