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New friends / by Hosten, Colin.; White, Mike,1970-; Disney Storybook Artists.;
Guided reading level: I.LSC
Subjects: Movie novels.; Gorilla; Elephants; Drawing; Circus;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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New tricks I can do! / by Lopshire, Robert.;
Asked to leave the circus because the audiences have seen all his tricks, Spot the dog hopes to show them new tricks by turning different colors and changing the shape of his spots.
Subjects: Dogs; Circus; Color; Stories in rhyme.;
© c1996., Random House,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Topsy : the startling story of the crooked-tailed elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American wizard, Thomas Edison / by Daly, Michael,1952-;
Subjects: Topsy (Elephant); Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.; Circus animals; Circus owners; Circus; Electrocution; Inventors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / by Fontaine, Tessa,author.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Fontaine, Tessa.; World of Wonders (Sideshow); Sideshows; Circus performers; Women circus performers; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Carnie King The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows [electronic resource] : by Thurston, John.aut; cloudLibrary;
The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America. Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world’s largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before becoming a a small-time operator. Willing to try anything to promote his show, he established himself as a carnie celebrity. Winning the midway contract for the Canadian National Exhibition in 1937, he made it his personal world’s fair. It became the foundation for his son and grandson to expand Conklin Shows until they were playing the biggest fairs and exhibitions throughout North America. Carnie King begins with the birth of Joseph Renker to German immigrant parents, tells of his personal transformation into Patty Conklin, and follows his incredible life through to his death in 1970. It covers his company's history after Jim Conklin took over, expanded it beyond recognition, then handed it on to his own son. Not only a history of Conklin Shows, Carnie King explores how midways work and their commercial and popular presence in North America The story it tells is based on dozens of interviews with carnies and access to the Conklin archives. It includes anecdotes about a range of characters and insights about life on the midway. Carnie King is at once a revealing look at a unique part of twentieth-century culture and a vivid account of three generations of showmen and their dominance of midways across the continent.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; 20th Century; Circus; Entertainment & Performing Arts;
© 2024., Dundurn Press,
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Wolf won't bite! / by Gravett, Emily.;
Three little circus pigs capture a wild wolf and make him do outrageous tricks, safe in the belief that he would never bite them.LSC
Subjects: Wolves; Swine; Circus; Pigs;
© [2011], Macmillan Children's Books,
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The farmer and the monkey / by Frazee, Marla.;
A nearly wordless picture book in which the farmer who returned the baby clown to the circus train is followed home by a playful circus monkey, leading to a wonderful new friendship.LSC
Subjects: Stories without words.; Farmers; Monkeys; Friendship; Circus;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The hidden life of Cecily Larson : a novel / by Baker, Ellen,1975-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.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.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Circus performers; Family secrets; Genetic genealogy; Older women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lonely hearts hotel / by O'Neill, Heather,1973-author.;
Set in Montreal and New York between the wars, a spellbinding story about two orphans whose unusual magnetism and talent allow them to imagine a sensational future, from the bestselling, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted author. Exquisitely imagined and hypnotically told, The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. Set in the early part of the 20th Century, it is an unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose fortune hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to escape one's origins. It might also take true love. Two babies are abandoned in a Montréal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their true talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing for the rich, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, both escape into the city's underworld, where they must use their uncommon gifts to survive without each other. Ruthless and unforgiving, Montréal in the 1930's is no place for song and dance. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes, the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make those dream come true. After Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls hit the stage and the alleys, the underworld will never look the same. With extraordinary storytelling, musical language, and an extravagantly realized world, acclaimed author Heather O'Neill enchants us with her best novel yet -- one so magical there is no escaping its spell.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Circus performers; Orphans; Man-woman relationships;
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A theatre for dreamers / by Samson, Polly,author.;
1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzlingly beautiful wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian poet named Leonard Cohen. Into their midst arrives teenage Erica, with little more than a bundle of blank notebooks and her grief for her mother. Settling on the periphery of this circle, she watches, entranced and disquieted, as a paradise unravels. Burning with the heat and light of Greece, A Theatre for Dreamers is a spellbinding novel about utopian dreams and innocence lost - and the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Artists; Communities; Genius; Interpersonal relations; Poets;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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