The flying Bandinis, bareback riders, never know why their beloved horse tries to buck Arturo in mid-somersault. Kindergarten - Grade 2.

When Taffy, Mike's performing circus pony, is stolen , Mike is determined to track him down.

Tells the adventures of a nineteenthcentury circus troupe as it travels from the post-Civil War South to the capitals and courts of Europe.

A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon, but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to the mobster's will until he decides to take the big boss down.

Joe Mahaffey, a garrulous, natural-born salesman, meets Buck Brody, a similarly minded Southerner, and together they ignite a wild scheme involving the selling and reselling of anyone or anything.

When Cecile gave her guinea pig to a poor old clown who needed to improve his act, she had no idea that the clown would repay her kindness with everything he owned.

In 1850s Pittsburgh, thirteen-year-old Owen leaves his younger brother and sneaks aboard a circus housed in a riverboat, where he befriends a freed slave, learns to work with elephants, and finally comes to terms with the choices he has made in his difficult life.

"An atmospheric and spectacular novel where one woman's life is transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders"-- "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." When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes...

Following a string of successful performances, the Moscardi Circus is travelling by train to Newcastle for their next show. Yet a collision on the track with a couple of sleepers causes pandemonium: passengers thrown about and animals escaping into the night. When the body of a woman is discovered in nearby woodland, Inspector Colbeck is desperate to lend assistance, believing the two incidents might be connected. Who is the nameless woman and who...

"Bernadette McCoy's death is blamed on seven cats, but Police Chief Mad Dog Connolly believes an individual killed her. Sean Kelley attends the Cirque de Délices and watches Angelique Aumont perform. He wants the beautiful Parisian rope walker for his traveling circus, and his wife, but she departs for America to live with her Auntie Bernadette. Hired by P. T. Barnum, Sean promotes singer Jenny Lind Barnum's Swedish Nightingale and assembles his...