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A biography from a seventh-generation member of the legendary Wallenda aerialist family in which he explores his life, career, and Christian faith.
When walking across Niagara Falls, Wallenda prayed aloud the entire time. He is an entertainer who wants to not only thrill hearts, but to change hearts for Christ. Balance is the theme of Nik's life: between his work and family, his faith in God and artistry, his body and soul. And Christ is the balance...
3) Tightrope
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English
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"An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--
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1 videodisc (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. Includes an incredible train wreck.
"To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on...
5) The walk
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Visionary filmmakers James Cameron and Andrew Adamson invite viewers on a spectacular adventure unlike anything seen before. Leap, soar, swim and dance with the legendary performers of Cirque du Soleil as they transport a young couple on a 'magical journey' worlds away and beyond imagination.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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When the Great Blondin announced that he was going to walk from America to Canada across the Niagara River on a rope that was more than 1,100 feet long and just 3 inches wide, hanging 160 feet above the raging river, people came from everywhere. Some came to watch him cross. Some came to watch him fall. Some thought he wouldn't show up at all. But he did show up. And he did walk across the river. And then he did something else amazing. He crossed...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born into a post-war circus family, our nameless star was unwanted and forgotten, abandoned in the shadows of the big top. until the bright light of Serendipity Wilson threw her into focus. Now an adult, haunted by an incident in which a child was lost from the circus, our narrator, a tightrope artiste, weaves together her spellbinding tales of circus legends, earthy magic and folklore, all in the hope of finding the child... But will her story be...
10) Man on wire
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"On August 7th, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center's Twin Towers. After dancing for nearly an hour on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail, before finally being released. This extraordinary documentary incorporates Petit's personal footage to show how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to achieve the artistic...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"In revolutionary France, a girl named Marguerite Lalanne longed to perform above large crowds on a tightrope, just like her acrobatic parents. Sneaking off to the fairgrounds for secret tightrope walking lessons, Marguerite finessed her performance skills, ultimately performing for crowds as a young rope dancer. And eventually, Marguerite would perform as Madame Saqui, waltzing and pirouetting across- and never falling off- countless ropes above...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The life and career of circus star Lillian Leitzel.
Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the story of trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century. Like some of today's stars, she was known to her vast public by just one name. Born into Dickensian circumstances, Leitzel became a princess and then a queen. At just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds, she was...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
"A trapeze artist disappears into the Gulf. Successful historical mystery writer, Chloe Whitfield comes to Ca' d'Zan in Sarasota, Florida, to research her next novel. Chloe's fascination with the circus is rooted in family stories of her great-grandmother Lucinda Conroy, who reportedly was a trapeze artist of some renown. She's heard hints of scandal, and perhaps larceny, but no details. Chloe's grandmother--rumored to be Lucinda's only offspring--was...
15) That's odd!
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers learn about the skills required for some unusual and really odd jobs such as professional taste and odor testers, dog walkers, and trapeze artists"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1859, Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as The Great Blondin, walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. What kind of man would do something like that? And more importantly, how do you become that man?"--
Author
Series
Bones of ruin volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--
As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is a strange sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret: she cannot...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, Harley Milano spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform. She has dreams she would be up there herself one day, but her parents insist she go to school instead. Harley joins...
20) Move it!
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers discover what it takes to have a job where workers are responsible for moving things and people from one place to another, such as truck drivers, train and subway drivers"--
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