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Welcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we see P.T. Barnum's caravan remade: A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones...
5) Oliver
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Oliver the elephant looks elsewhere for employment after learning that the circus already has enough elephants.
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An ounce of courage. A split-second leap of faith. Together, they propel two young women to chase a new life--one that's reimagined from what they might have become. In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confines of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures to call her own, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago...
10) The first of May
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A heartwarming family film about a foster child who feels unwanted in his new home and befriends a vivacious elderly woman who rebels at the restrictions in her nursing home. Together they run away to find family and join the Clyde Beatty circus.
14) Joker's wild!
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When Joker escapes from Arkham Asylum and heads for the Gotham Circus, Batman must find a way to foil Joker's evil plan to shoot laughing gas into the stands on opening night.
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In the Netherlands in 1855, May, a young member of a circus family who is not permitted to perform because of a twisted foot, bonds with a local Friesian farm horse that she names Luna, and together the two perform a heroic act that changes their futures for the better. Includes facts about Friesian horses.
17) Summer dreams
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Contains "Dual Image" in which actress Ariel Kirkwood falls for screenwriter Booth DeWitt while playing his ex-wife in his semiautobiographical film, but begins to worry when he starts to become distant; and "Untamed" in which lawyer Keane Prescott, having inherited his father's circus, is attracted to lion tamer Jovilette Wilder, but finds it hard to convince her that he is a good man who can run the business and care for her.
19) The Surge
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Master of middle-grade adventure Roland Smith returns with a second installment in this fast-paced action series.Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have just survived Hurricane Emily, the storm of the century, but their troubles are just beginning. Although they've made it to the safety of Nicole's family's farm--the winter home of the Rossi Brothers' Circus--the floodwaters are rising and they need to reach higher ground. The circus's lions...
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