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Mirette & Bellini cross Niagara Falls
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Emily Arnold McCully |
With the help of a young immigrant boy they meet on their crossing to America, two famous tightrope walkers manage to survive the treachery of a rival showman. |
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The trapeze artist
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Will Davis |
"A man will endlessly torture his muscles until they shriek and complain. But he will not give in. He will take a hammer to his ceiling until neighbors begin to watch from the window and journalists … |
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The Bloomington-Normal circus legacy
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Maureen Brunsdale |
"Starting in the 1870s, the barns, icehouses,gymnasiums and empty theaters of central Illinois provided the practice sitesfor aerial performers whose names still command reverence in the annals ofAme… |
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The diamond thief
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Sharon Gosling |
No one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old Rémy Brunel. But Rémy also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to stea… |
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High wire
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Melanie Jackson |
Zack Freedman feels calm and in control when he is on the high wire. If only he could say the same about the rest of his life. His fellow performer and roommate, Cubby, hates him, and his aunt dumps … |
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
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Mordicai Gerstein |
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. |
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