Circus Age

Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to become Southern California’s first giraffes. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow.

Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder - a world where women weave illusions of magnificent beasts, carousels take you back in time, and trapeze artists float across the sky. Bound to her family's circus, it's the only world Cecile Cabot knows until she meets a charismatic young painter and embarks on a passionate affair that could cost her everything. Virginia, 2004: Lara Barnes is on top of the world until her fiancé disappears on their wedding day.

Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. 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.

Four complete novels. Four reverse harem HEAs. When you fall in love with more than one guy... why choose? In Lords of Summer, Layla works the summer as a maid to her college bullies. In Autumn Tricksters, Hazel is torn between performers at the circus. Gigi is snowed in a Welsh castle with two best friends and her favorite tutor in Knights of Winter. And Frankie slips away from her bodyguard to stow away on a riverboat in Spring Kings. These standalone contemporary reverse harem romances are steamy and full of soul. Which season will you love the most?

In Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.

Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion-tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists and, most thrilling of all, the so-called “human wonders.”

The Great Giving Circus: A Magical Adventure About Kindness, Teamwork & Joy (What Shall We Do Today? Series) Perfect for Beginning Chapter Book Readers Ages 6-9 Educational Children's Fiction Character Building Stories 🎪 Join Imani, Tommy, and Maya on their most topsy-turvy adventure yet! 🎪 When an upside-down circus clown appears in Tommy's front yard juggling floating pizza slices, the three friends know they're in for another magical journey. But this isn't just any circus—it's the Great Giving Circus, and its magic has gone completely haywire! What Your Child Will Love: ✨ A ...

A poor family moves to 18th-century London, where the father has been offered a job as a carpenter for a circus. His children befriend a young girl who introduces them to the great city. Their neighbor is none other than the real-life poet, William Blake.

Harry Houdini's onetime apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them...or silence her before she can reveal them on her own. Boston, 1926. Jenny "Wren" Lockhart is a bold eccentric - even for a female vaudevillian. As notorious for her inherited wealth and gentleman's dress as she is for her unsavory upbringing in the back halls of a vaudeville theater, Wren lives in a world that challenges all manner of conventions.

My Future If I am to believe my abuela it lies in the tarot cards she reads. She tells me I will be given a gift soon. The ability to hear the dead. Their voices already trickle inside my mind, so eager to have someone to listen to them. But I don't want this gift. It took my mother away. And I am afraid to find out what it will do to me. Because this gift comes with a price and everyone must pay it.

WHAT WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO DO IF THE GIRL YOU LOVE WAS JUST OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE... The circus he grew up in is the only world Angus Forrester ever knew since the tragic death of his parents leaving him orphan. Even though he has travelled almost every corner of the North American continent, it has become a small world to him. Not much better than the cages the animals are kept in between the shows. When a girl stumbles into his life on Long Island, young and beautiful and privileged, just about to finish high school and start college, Angus questions his life, asking himself if there is a ...

Going to the Circus that night was a whim, but it would change their lives forever. When siblings Emma and Nemo Reeve went to the Circus Phantasm, they expected tantalizing glimpses of magic. Instead, they are drawn out of the cage of secrets they have built and swept away from their small-town lives. Here, their hidden magical talents can flourish. They can travel with fantastical creatures. They may even have found - at last - a home. But the Ringmaster has his own dark secrets. His past is coming to haunt him, and now danger stalks them all.

At the World of Wonders, Europe’s most magnificent travelling circus, every moment is full of magic, and nothing is as it seems—especially for the people who put on the show

A fire kills Jessie Parsons’ family and leaves her an orphan at age 13 during the Great Depression. The fire also leaves her both physically and emotionally scarred. Amid her struggles to adjust to life on a farm orphanage, she tries to help an elephant calf that has escaped from the circus. Jessie and the elephant bond as Jessie tries to care for the elephant. The calf is eventually returned to the circus, but Jessie discovers her love for animals and, in particular, elephants. When she is 16 years old, Jessie joins the Conroy & Pepperidge Circus as an animal handler, but quickly becomes...

Ray Shepard is a wealthy architect who has mystified his friends by marrying Evelyn, a woman who works at a nail salon. Evelyn, in turn, hides a secret past about her former life in the circus, her ex-husband's mysterious death, and the colorful tattoos she carefully conceals under her clothes. When Evelyn starts to cave under the pressure of living in Ray's rarified world, she suggests they take in Ingrid, a 16-year-old girl with blue hair, a pet iguana, and no place to stay for the summer.

Did you ever threaten to run away and join the circus? It’s 1980, and Gail has decided to blow off her full college ride and become a trapeze artist. As she finds herself wandering the dysfunctional circus life, she realizes the safety net of the existence she once knew is unraveling, but the show must go on no matter what. This honest, daring, and sexy story is about mysterious circus culture through the eyes of a young woman with a dream of flying. The Greatest Of Ease is a roman à clef giving readers a fascinating, detailed view of circus life circa 1980. Ultimately a story of ...

Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers. In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter.