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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 forever. Sold to the ringmaster as a “leopard girl” because of the birthmarks that cover her body, Nell is utterly devastated. But as she grows close to the other performers, she finds herself enchanted by the glittering freedom of the circus, and by her own role as the Queen of the Moon and Stars.
Before long, Nell’s fame spreads across the world—and with it, a chance for Jasper Jupiter to grow his own name and fortune. But what happens when her fame begins to eclipse his own, when even Jasper’s loyal brother Toby becomes captivated by Nell? No longer the quiet flower-picker, Nell knows her own place in the world, and she will fight for it.
Circus of Wonders is a beautiful story about the “complex dance between exploitation and empowerment, and the question of what it really means to have control over your own life” (Naomi Ishiguro, author of Escape Routes).©2021 Elizabeth Macneal. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd. All rights reserved.
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In an electrified Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with newfangled technological gadgets. She will need every advantage available to catch a terrifying new psychopath splattering London with blood. Hidden in the grimy shadows, the fiendish murderer preys on beautiful women, drugging them before slicing off their limbs. Finding the "Slicer" can make Eliza's career...or unmask her darkest secret.
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Surprising Gem from newer author
- De Michalena en 12-06-16
De: Viola Carr
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The Trees
- De: Ali Shaw
- Narrado por: Ben Onwukwe
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
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There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed.
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Post apocalypse with a little bit of magic
- De Tam en 09-20-16
De: Ali Shaw
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The Last Crossing
- A Novel
- De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Narrado por: John Henry Cox, John Keating, Colin Lane, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key era in American history, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Told through flashbacks and alternating points of view, The Last Crossing is about redemption, about seeking and finding, about human feelings and strengths, about personal honor, and about that moment in life when we must decide to cross over and surrender to love.
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A Very Dark Story
- De Virginia en 04-05-04
De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
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The Peculiar
- De: Stefan Bachmann
- Narrado por: Peter Altschuler
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged. In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words. Bartholomew and Hettie are changelings - Peculiars - and neither faeries nor humans want anything to do with them. One day a mysterious lady in a plum-colored dress comes gliding down Old Crow Alley. Bartholomew watches her through his window. Who is she? What does she want? And when Bartholomew witnesses the lady whisking away, in a whirling ring of feathers, the boy who lives across the alley - Bartholomew forgets the rules and gets himself noticed.
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An Unexpected Adventure
- De Shannon en 05-30-13
De: Stefan Bachmann
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Deathless
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Kim de Blecourt
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to Western European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories that have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the 20th century.
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My Favorite Fantasy Book of the Year
- De Robert en 12-29-13
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London
- De: Rebecca Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn't see it that way...until Charmian is pulled from the audience during a magic show by escape artist Harry Houdini, a man enmeshed in his own complicated marriage. Suddenly charmed, Charmian's eyes open to a world of possibilities.
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Who Knew...?
- De L. Ronayne en 05-04-18
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The Bells
- A Novel
- De: Richard Harvell
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 15 h y 51 m
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Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman, banished to the church tower to ring the loudest and most beautiful bells ever each day. His life is simple but content, until the day his father recognizes Moses' singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the historic Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration....
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Excellent!!! Highly recommend!
- De Coni R en 07-31-17
De: Richard Harvell
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- De: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Narrado por: Emily Zeller
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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Disjointed account of an extraordinary life
- De David en 05-01-15
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The Goose Girl
- Book One of the Books of Bayern
- De: Shannon Hale
- Narrado por: Cynthia Bishop
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Princess Anidori-Kiladra of Kildenree was born with a word on her tongue, and a secret magic. Though she is raised in luxury, she is never quite comfortable with who she is, or what she is to become. Then she is sent on a journey to marry an unknown prince. The trip is difficult, and before it is finished all her expectations are overturned. Alone, friendless, stripped of her crown and her title, Ani must learn to make her own path in the world. Along the way, she just might learn to be a princess.
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Surprisingly Good!
- De Douglas en 01-08-14
De: Shannon Hale
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A Study in Silks
- De: Emma Jane Holloway
- Narrado por: Angele Masters
- Duración: 21 h y 38 m
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In a Victorian era ruled by a council of ruthless steam barons, mechanical power is the real monarch and sorcery the demon enemy of the Empire. Nevertheless, the most coveted weapon is magic that can run machines - something Evelina has secretly mastered. But rather than making her fortune, her special talents could mean death or an eternity as a guest of Her Majesty's secret laboratories. What's a polite young lady to do but mind her manners and pray she's never found out?
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Too much of a bad thing
- De Bomberwizz en 11-30-14
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Stations of the Tide
- De: Michael Swanwick
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
- De Robert L. en 03-25-12
De: Michael Swanwick
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The Incarnations
- A Novel
- De: Susan Barker
- Narrado por: Timo Chen, Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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Who are you? You must be wondering. I am your soul mate, your old friend, and I have come back to this city of 16 million in search of you. So begins the first letter that falls into Wang's lap as he flips down the visor in his taxi. The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wang's previous lives - from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution.
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What was that you said?
- De cecil reniche-smith en 08-29-15
De: Susan Barker
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
- Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey, Joy Osmanski, Kaleo Griffith, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979", a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" find Russell veering into more sinister territory.
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Excellent narrators, quirky stories
- De MorganSays en 08-17-13
De: Karen Russell
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- Patricia Nieves
- 01-28-23
Wonderful Insight into the circus world
This was an enlightening behind the scenes story about daily circus life trials and victories
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- Barbara A.
- 04-16-22
Interesting but depressing
Great characters but bleak story. At least one loose end at the conclusion (the Jackal)
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- Kat
- 02-21-22
Couldn't Love this more!
I thought this was a fantastic and unusual story! Set in the 1800's from the viewpoint of the circus performers. I didn't want it to end so I really took my time. I had to ration myself only a chapter or two at a time! Otherwise I would have binged it in a single day. Great characters. Great story. Great reading performances.
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- Barbarino
- 02-10-22
Disappointing
I was very disappointed by the lack of character development. I never truly cared about any of the characters in the story. I thought they were all very flat and one-dimensional. The plot was also disappointing. The pacing was very slow. And the big mystery that finally is revealed is not so very big. I was really looking forward to this audiobook. I like the narrator's voice but I didn't think she did a very good job of narrating. There was a constant breathy excitement to everything.
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- Anisha
- 02-15-22
Nope. Pass.
I guess it's my fault for expecting that any circus-themed book will reach my expectation of the Night Circus (which I adore to no end). This book started off okay but about halfway through - I started to lose interest fast. Also, how many times can one say "Jasper Jupiter" in one book? Ugh.
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