The Family Circus' Colorful Life
Author : Bil Keane
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780449902196
Henrietta Hornbuckle's Circus of Life
Author : Michael de Guzman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429933348
Book Description
A HEART-BREAKING COMEDY ABOUT CIRCUS LIFE AND LIFE ITSELF Henrietta cherishes her family's kooky existence working as clowns for a small, shabby traveling circus. As far as she is concerned, she has it better than any twelve-year-old on the planet. But one shocking day, life throws a pie right in her kisser—in the form of a hitand-run accident that takes away a loved one. Henrietta must use all her clowning skills and a whole lot more to pick herself up and face a future full of change.
The Pilo Family Circus
Author : Will Elliott
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 073049652X
Book Description
Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away...this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place peopled by the gruesome, grotesque and monstrous, where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself - for when he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead.
The Night Circus
Author : Erin Morgenstern
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385534647
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe 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 called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
A Ticket to the Circus
Author : Norris Church Mailer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158836979X
Book Description
BONUS: This edition contains an A Ticket to the Circus discussion guide. In this revealing memoir, told with southern charm and wit, Norris Church Mailer depicts the full evolution of her colorful life—from her childhood in a small Arkansas town all the way through her intense thirty-three-year marriage with Norman Mailer and his heartbreaking death. She met Norman by chance while in her early twenties and they fell in love in one night. Theirs was a marriage full of friendship, betrayal, doubts, understanding, challenges, and deep, complicated, lifelong passion. The couple’s New York parties were legendary, and their social circle included such luminaries as Jacqueline Kennedy, Truman Capote, and Gore Vidal. Complete with the couple’s intimate letters, this candid and unforgettable memoir is a great American love story.
Geek Love
Author : Katherine Dunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307794482
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Once Upon a Cloud
Author : Claire Keane
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698401794
Book Description
Fresh from her work on Frozen and Tangled, Claire Keane brings her legendary talent to her debut picture book about finding the right present for someone you love. Celeste wants to give her mother something special—but what? Her search takes her up into the skies, where she meets the stars, the moon and the sun, but she still doesn’t find the heartfelt present she’s been looking for. At the end of her journey, Celeste sees it—the perfect gift! Chosen with care and wrapped with love, it’s just what Celeste was hoping to find. In this story about finding unexpected inspiration and giving from the heart, Claire Keane invites readers on a magical journey through the clouds. The result is a visually stunning book that really and truly is the perfect gift.
Family Circus
Author : Bil Keane
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2010
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 9781600106576
Book Description
Collects daily and Sunday comics of the classic comic strip in chronological order.
Confessions of a Showman
Author : Gerry Cottle
Publisher : Vision
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Circus
ISBN : 9781905745166
Book Description
Gerry Cottle, a stockbroker's son, ran away to join the circus when he was just5 and soon married into Britain's oldest circus dynasty. In time, he was thewner of the biggest circus in the world until his growing cocaine addiction le to his arrest and bankruptcy. He recovered, and, ever the showman, went on toake millions with the first ever non-animal circus, the Moscow and Chinese Stte circuses, and the Circus of Horrors.
Circus
Author : Linda Granfield
Publisher : Dk Pub
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780789426611
Book Description
Traces the history of circuses from the time of ancient Egypt and Greece through their evolution in eighteenth-century Europe to the spectacles created by P.T. Barnum and other modern-day showmen.
