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circusofbooks.com. Circus of Books, also known as Chi Chi LaRue's Circus, is a bookstore and gay pornography shop in West Hollywood, California. It was established in the 1960s as "Book Circus", and in the past also had branches in the Silver Lake and Sherman Oaks neighborhoods of Los Angeles. As notable Los Angeles gay cruising spots of the ...
The Catch Trap is a novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, published in 1979. Set in the circus world of the 1940s and 1950s, it tells the story of two trapeze artists, Mario Santelli and Tommy Zane, and the professional relationship they develop which ultimately leads to love. This rich tale encompasses the exhilarating highs of soaring under the Big ...
The Circus Series begins with Mr Galliano's Circus, where the protagonist is Jimmy Brown. The story starts with how Jimmy and his parents join the circus, where Jimmy's Dad gets a job as a handyman. Then Jimmy's affinity with animals brings into his life 'Lucky' the dog. The story revolves around Jimmy, his parents, his dog Lucky and the others ...
The Night Circus was a candidate for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award. [18] It won an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2012. [ 19 ] The novel spent seven weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list , reaching number two on the hardcover fiction list.
Nights at the Circus is a novel by British writer Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and the winner of the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of Sophie Fevvers, a woman who is – or so she would have people believe – a Cockney virgin, hatched from an egg laid by unknown parents and ready to develop fully fledged wings.
The story is narrated by Eddie Johnston of Sauk City, who impulsively joins Farnum & Williams' All-American 3-Ring Circus and Side Show as a roustabout.Johnston enjoys circus life, but fears Mr. Indrasil, the fiery tempered lion tamer, who is rumored to have only nearly killed a roustabout who angered him. Mr. Indrasil in turn fears the circus' tiger, Green Terror, who once attacked him ...
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, also known as the Ringling Bros. Circus, Ringling Bros., the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Barnum & Bailey, or simply Ringling, is an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. It and its predecessor have run shows from 1871, with a hiatus from 2017 to 2023.
Chappie Fox. Charles Philip "Chappie" Fox (May 27, 1913 – September 12, 2003) was a circus historian and philanthropist born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who greatly expanded the Circus World Museum and helped found the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee. Fox took over the tiny museum, in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1960, and began to collect and ...