Circus performers
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Auteur:Gruen, SaraSommaire: -
Auteur:Gruen, SaraSommaire:Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. There he...
- Auteur:Morgenstern, ErinSommaire:
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is...
- Auteur:Birch, CarolSommaire:
London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen...
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Auteur:Howell, NiallSommaire:Only Pretty Damned is a taut noir that takes you behind the big top, revealing rough and tumble characters, murderous plots, and crooked schemes designed to keep Rowland's World Class Circus afloat for another season. When Toby, former...
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Auteur:Slansky, R. H.Sommaire:Winner, 3-Day Novel Contest (2013).
Joshua Chapman Green is searching for answers. He is combing through boxes in the attic of his recently deceased mother’s home and uncovering childhood memories, mysterious letters, and...
- Auteur:Parker, LucySommaire:
Once upon a time, circus artist Trix Lane was the best around. Her spark vanished with her confidence, though, and reclaiming either has proved…difficult. So when the star of The Festival of Masks is nixed and Trix is unexpectedly...
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Auteur:Vingoe, MarySommaire:Anna soon realizes that she is out of her element in the city, and longs to return home. Determined to make the best of her situation, Anna goes against the wishes of Barnum and befriends the other "living curiosities," developing a...
- Auteur:Sauriol, Louise-Michelle, Therrien, JoanneSommaire:
La taille d’Édouard Beaupré impressionne. Un véritable géant! Conscient de l’extraordinaire de sa condition, Édouard s’engage dans différents cirques. Une histoire aussi géante que son héros, qui retrace la vie et la carrière du célèbre...
- Auteur:Lévesque, Baron Marc-AndréSommaire:
Avec sa manière désopilante et inimitable, Baron Marc-André Lévesque ( Chasse aux licornes, Toutou Tango ) signe un recueil rempli de pépites au sujet de la vie à l'école... quand on n'aime pas tellement l'école?! Attachante et...
- Auteur:Kacer, KathySommaire:
Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family's circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the...
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Auteur:Braxton, DrakeSommaire:While on business in a small town near Chicago, Wheeler Reynolds hears a tale about a traveling circus killed nearby in a horrific train wreck over 90 years ago. Haunted by the story, Wheeler falls asleep thinking someone is calling his...
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Auteur:Greenwood, KerrySommaire:Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his...
