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Starring Mirette & Bellini

2000
After the Great Bellini teaches young Mirette to walk the high wire, she uses her talent to free him from prison, and both resolve to help others become free.
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Harley in the sky

2021
Eighteen-year-old Harley, dreams of quitting school to join her parents' Las Vegas circus and when they refuse, she joins a rival circus where she must learn hard truths and face consequences.

Flyboy

2024
"After an incident at his school leaves closeted trans teenager Asher Sullivan needing stitches, his mother betrays him in the worst possible way--she sends him to Catholic school for his senior year. Nighttime brings an escape for Asher when he dreams of the Midnight Circus--the one place where he is seen for the boy he truly is. Too bad it exists only in his sleep. At least, that's what he believes until the day his annoyingly attractive trapeze rival, Apollo, walks out of his dreams and into his classroom. On the heels of this realization that the magical circus might be real, Asher also learns that his time there is limited. In his desperation to hang on to the one place he feels at home, Asher sets both worlds on a collision course that could destroy all the relationships he cares about most. Now he must decide how far he'll go to preserve the magical circus, even if it means facing his biggest challenge yet--coming out"--Provided by publisher.

Amazing Acrobats

2019
"I have so many super-amazing and IMPORTANT things to write about! I'll tell you all about them: Everyone at school is doing super-amazing tricks on the play equipment . We are going to perform an UNBELIEVABLE acrobat show. An awesome Circus Skills Workshop has come to town! They will teach us wild gymnastics tricks. But there's something wrong with my BFF Matilda. Why doesn't she want to do the trapeze with me? And how will we do our acrobat show if Matilda doesn't want to be in it I have to work out a way to make this show the best show ever!"--Page [4] of cover.

The lost carnival

a Dick Grayson graphic novel
2020
Before Batman trained him to be Robin, Dick Grayson was star of his family of trapeze artists, but when an enchanting new attraction opens nearby and threatens to lure away their remaining customers, Dick is among those drawn to its magical glow and may be too mesmerized to recognize the dangers ahead.
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We walked the sky

2020
"Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school"--Provided by publisher.

King of the tightrope

when the Great Blondin ruled Niagara
2019
A picture book biography of Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as The Great Blondin, who walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

Harley in the sky

2020
Eighteen-year-old Harley, dreams of quitting school to join her parents' Las Vegas circus and when they refuse, she joins a rival circus where she must learn hard truths and face consequences.

We walked the sky

Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school.
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The walk

In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
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