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Carnie king : the story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows / by Thurston, John Harry,1955-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of the audacious carnie who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America. Enter the realm of the Carnie King, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of the world's largest carnival company. Starting as a small-time operator who was willing to try anything to promote his show, Conklin transformed himself into a carnie celebrity -- and he was the main attraction. Winning the midway contract for the Canadian National Exhibition in 1937, he made it his personal world's fair and laid the foundation for his son and grandson to expand Conklin Shows, playing the biggest fairs and exhibitions in North America. Not only a history of Conklin Shows, Carnie King explores the inner working of midways, providing a fascinating story based off scores of interviews with carnies and access to the Conklin archives. The resulting history is at once a startling, nostalgic look at a unique part of twentieth-century North American culture and a vivid account of three generations of showmen and their dominance of midways across the continent."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Conklin, Patty.; Conklin Shows; Carnivals;
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Get well, Eva / by Elliott, Rebecca.;
Appeals to 1st-2nd graders.Reading level Grade 2.LSC
Subjects: Owls; Diaries; Carnivals; Wounds and injuries;
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Nightmare alley [videorecording] / by Blanchett, Cate,1969-actor.; Cooper, Bradley,actor.; Dafoe, Willem,actor.; Dale, J.,film producer.; Mara, Rooney,actor.; Morgan, Kim,screenwriter.; Toro, Guillermo del,1964-screenwriter,film producer,film director.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Gresham, William Lindsay,1909-1962.Nightmare alley.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Searchlight Pictures,production company.;
Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Paul Anderson, Toni Collette, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Blake Nelson, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Clifton Colins Jr, Jim Beaver, Richard Jenkins, David Hewlett, Dian Bachar, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Troy James.A corrupt con-man teams up with a female psychiatrist to trick people into giving them money.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for strong/bloody violence, some sexual content, nudity and language.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Carnivals; Man-woman relationships; Swindlers and swindling; Women psychiatrists;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Give fudge a chance / by Coco, Nancy,author.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; McMurphy, Allie (Fictitious character); Confectioners; Murder; Carnivals;
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Kitty and the twilight trouble / by Harrison, Paula.; Løvlie, Jenny.;
"Kitty prevents a near-disaster at the town carnival , while teaching Pixie's new friend Hazel that helping people is the most important part of being a superhero"--Provided by publisher.Ages 6-10.Grades 2-3.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Superheroes; Human-animal communication; Cats; Carnivals;
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Thea Stilton and the Venice masquerade / by Stilton, Thea.; Pellizzari, Barbara.; Ferron, Flavio.; Clement, Emily(Translator);
Appeals to 2nd-4th graders.Reading level Grade 4.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Stilton, Thea; Thea Sisters (Fictitious characters); Mice; Masquerades; Sisters; Carnivals;
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Mr. Lemoncello's very first game / by Grabenstein, Chris.;
Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads him and his friends on a treasure hunt.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Entertainers; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Treasure hunt (Game); Carnivals; Friendship;
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Junie B. Jones and the yucky blucky fruitcake / by Park, Barbara.; Brunkus, Denise.;
Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind."RL: 2.1, 006-009"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Jones, Junie B. (Fictitious character); Schools; Kindergarten; Carnivals; Behavior;
© c1995., Random House,
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The magic misfits / by Harris, Neil Patrick,1973-; Marlin, Lissy.; Hilton, Kyle.;
"Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Magicians; Orphans; Magic tricks; Carnivals; Brigands and robbers; Conduct of life;
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Woman of light : a novel / by Fajardo-Anstine, Kali,author.;
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader, and Diego is a snake charmer. One day, a pale-faced woman in white fur asks Luz for a reading, calling her by a name that only her brother knows. Later that night at a party downtown, Luz sees Diego dancing with this pale-faced woman, which results in a brawl with the local white supremacist group. Diego leaves town for cover and Luz is left trying to get justice for her brother and family. Merging two multi-generational storylines in Colorado, this is a novel of family love, secrets, and survival. With Fajardo-Anstine's immense capacity to render characters and paint vivid life, set against the Sange de Cristo mountians, Woman of Light is full of the weight, richness, and complexities of mixed blood and mica clay. It delights like an Old Western, and inspires the hope embedded in histories yet-told"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Carnivals; Fortune-telling by tea leaves; Hispanic American families; Hispanic American women; Racism; Women prophets;
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