Circus Age

Fans of Big Fish, Peter Pan, and Roald Dahl will fall in love with Circus Mirandus, which celebrates the power of seeing magic in the world. Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does. Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa...

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.

From the author of A Witch in Time comes a magical story spanning from Jazz Age Paris to modern-day America of family secrets, sacrifice, and lost love set against the backdrop of a mysterious circus. Paris, 1925: To enter the Secret Circus is to enter a world of wonder—a world where women...

A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness and charm ensue as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce, and pure, unadulterated joy in...

Turn your daily commute into a wondrous escape through this cultural history of thrilling spectacle and human danger. From ancient arenas to sprawling global railway tours, follow the gritty evolution of acrobatics, clowns, and daring performances. Perfect for a relaxing weekend listen, this...

Welcome back to Circus Mirandus . . . a place with magic so wondrous, you need to believe it to see it. Micah Tuttle--magician in training--lives and works at Circus Mirandus alongside his guardian, the ancient and powerful Lightbender. The circus is a place filled with dazzling fire shows...

International Bestseller and #1 LibraryReads Pick Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl’s coming-of-age during the darkest of times. “A powerful reminder that to live is not just to...

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?

The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find...

“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the...

Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. In the Depression Era, Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers ‘Most Spectacular Show on Earth’. There he meets the freaks, grifters, and misfits that populate this world: Marlena...

On the surface, Ashford, Vermont, seems like a quaint New England college town, but to those who live among the shadowy remains of its abandoned mills and factories, and beneath its towering steel bridges, it's known as Burntown. Eva Sandeski, who goes by the name Necco on the street, has been...

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by...

The Dark Ages have long been cast as a murky, unknowable period – a void between the worlds of Rome and later medieval Europe. That picture is wrong. In this sweeping history of Europe between 500 and 1000 AD, Oxford historian Alice Rio brings a long-obscured era into intimate focus. Told...

Bloomsbury presents into the wreck by Susannah Dickey, read by Diona Doherty. 'A wonderfully stylish writer with an unwavering eye' JOHN PATRICK McHUGH 'Perfectly calibrated . . . These characters spike off the page' A. K. BLAKEMORE How do you mourn someone you never really knew? Three siblings...

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 ...

Believing he’s destined to become the greatest lycanthrope ever, Chad becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to change his inner animal. After a meeting with a girl Chad has known for most of his life, he learns about Sage, a guru-like lycanthrope who can change into a variety of animals residing in Las Vegas. To gain support from his friends and permission from his parents, he suggests a road trip to Vegas to attend a high-profile gaming convention. Thanks to questionable choices along the way, Chad and his friends have a run-in with a biker gang followed quickly by a fight ...

National Book Award Finalist The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod, 26-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt—the ""over-tall"" 11-year-old boy who's the talk of the town—walks into her library and changes her...

In the tradition of award-winning, illustrated novels Pax and The One and Only Ivan, Long Road to the Circus is a girl-empowering, funny, and fast-paced historical adventure by award-winning writer and librarian Betsy Bird. Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles is tired of summers filled with chores on...

A vibrant and enchanting debut novel about an orphan girl who discovers a magical circus, perfect for fans of Kelly Barnhill and Rebecca Stead! Maddy Adriana knows that magic is real. All her life, her heart has pulled her towards things too perfect to be ordinary. One day, that tug leads her to...