Family Circus

"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?" Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie 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.

They called them freaks. History rarely bothered to learn their names. FREAKSHOW is the true story of the performers who built one of the strangest and most profitable industries in American history, and the real people history reduced to a single word on a ticket booth banner. Meet Joseph Merrick, exhibited as the Elephant Man before finding four years of genuine peace at the London Hospital. Meet Chang and Eng Bunker, sold as children and exhibited across two continents before building a fortune, a family of twenty-one children, and an uncomfortable legacy of their own. Meet Julia ...

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...

Jamie is rebuilding his life after his previous escape from the Pilo Family Circus, with no memories of the circus besides the clown outfit in his cupboard. Far below, as the circus stirs back to life, Jamie finds himself filled with urges to be a clown again (making inappropriate jokes at work, an urge to put on his clown outfit, etc.). He also finds that his friends and family do not trust him because of that night he was found by police in a clown suit with blood on his shoes and no memory of what happened.

The terrifying sequel to Farm... It's been 6 months since Kevin escaped the gruesome, brutal confines of the farm, and 6 months since the infamously evil, demented cult that owns it managed to lure him back. But this time, Kevin is no longer a prisoner and is instead seduced into being an accomplice to the Farmer family's sick, twisted shenanigans; helping them to carry out their latest venture... the circus. Nancy, Kevin's long-suffering wife, goes looking for him with the help of her friends when police are unable to track down her husband. However, what appears to at first be a straight-...

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving...

In Not My Circus, the author shares her extraordinary story of resilience amidst unimaginable adversity. From drug abuse and sexual trauma to homicide, she recounts her harrowing coming-of-age experiences in gritty detail. This powerful memoir will take you on a rollercoaster ride through the author's traumatic teenage and young adult years. You'll venture into the vibrant nightlife of West Hollywood, with all its temptation and danger in the height of the AIDS epidemic. You'll experience the terror of being raped and the frustration of seeking justice.

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...

Spring is in the air, and lots of things are growing—including the Room 26 family! Signs of spring are very exciting to everyone at Longfellow School. Mrs. Brisbane's class has seen flowers poking out of snow and baby birds hatching, and Just-Joey even brought in tadpoles that are growing into...

Emma and Malcolm must race against time to save his sister in the thrilling sequel to Heart's Gambit where high stakes magic and unforgettable romance meet. After defeating a curse that pitted their families against one another in a vicious competition of survival, Malcolm and Emma are finally...

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...

This collection of three titles from one of America's bestselling authors is available at a special value price. Fine Things Bernie Fine had everything, even what he wanted most, a family. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes and he has to rebuild his life, care for his children and cope with his own...

Now a major Lifetime movie event—the classic story of the Casteel family saga continues with this third installment. Proud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills—to rise at last above her family’s shame. As Logan’s bride, Heaven would savor now the love she had sought for so long...

'Propulsive and calmly devastating ... Setterwall is in full command' MARINA KEMP, author of The Unwilding 'Quietly affecting' DAILY MAIL Everything will be fine. That is what Mary and John promise when they tell their two children that they are getting a divorce. But while the end of their...

The circus is coming to Turtle Cove—and the Garrison twins are bracing for the chaos! Lily is enchanted by the magic and excitement. Grace? Not so much. But business is booming at the Willowrose Inn as performers roll into town, including the charismatic Ringmaster and Hypnotist, Rex Volante, and the enigmatic Madam Selene, a traveling psychic with a flair for the dramatic. On opening night, the twins receive an exclusive invitation to a private garden tent reading with Madam Selene. But before the crystal ball can clear… the psychic collapses, dead on the spot. With their curious ...

First Place in 2016 ROYAL PALM LITERARY AWARDS!!! Maximilian and Leroy are two circus mice cousins who think they’ve got it made in the shade at the old, shuttered Farnsworth Circus Museum. There are no dogs around, there’s a safe path to the full pantry in the old house, and the barn is full of dry hay and old circus wagons to hang out in.But when a new generation of Farnsworths move in, things start to shake up. And when eight-year-old Lucy Farnsworth brings home a tiny rescue kitten and hides him in the barn because her dad is allergic to cats, Max and Leroy need to think fast if ...

If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today? "This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."―Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway "With earnestness that matches the author's poignant story, narrator Petrea...

A ravishing first novel, set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all. New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an...

The Blunders, from Children's author David Walliams. Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny, along with their beloved grandma Old Lady Blunder, and their pet ostrich, Cedric. An ostrich is not a sensible pet, but then the Blunders are not sensible people. This family...

The story of a young girl with a dream to one day join the circus. As a six year old being raised in the Lakeland Fells of Cumbria, Emily Pratchett becomes enchanted by the glamour and thrills of a visiting circus, convinced that one day the dazzling entertainment will become a part of her life. As the years roll by, the girl’s ambition remains as determined as ever, even when tragedy strikes her impoverished farming family. Eventually she achieves her ambition but has no idea of the tribulations and obstacles which lie in front of her. Having to overcome the problems with which she is ...