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Journey – Faithfully
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Larger Than Life $3.88 Jack Corcoran (Bill Murray) is a mildly successful motivational speaker on the lower end of the trade-show circuit. At his engagement party, he finds out his long-believed-dead dad has only recently died, leaving him a large inheritance. Of course, Jack doesn’t know how large until he meets a suspicious lawyer (Harve Presnel) who unloads Dad’s prized possession: a four-ton circus elephant named Ve… |
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A Freaks Journey, The Life and Times of a Six-Year Old Circus Runaway $3.99 In 1890’s London, six-year old Jimmy Stockley’s mum throws him out of their apartment while she services clients. Jimmy runs away and joins a caravan circus. Taken in by a new mum, Jimmy grows into James as he meets the circus owner’s challenge to become a “good freak” by learning a skill that will attract customers to the circus. Success in the Big Top is contrasted with James’ frustr… |
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Liszt: My Travelling Circus Life: Music in Georgian and Victorian Society $36.95 Franz Liszt, a dominant figure in the romantic movement, has been the subject of a number of recent scholarly studies. In their effort to capture the broad sweep of his life, earlier works have excluded much of the story of his encounters with the English provinces, Scotland, and Ireland during the two long tours he made in 1840 and 1841. David Allsobrook uses Liszt’s letters home and extracts a… |
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The Advance Man (Hardcover) $21.24 MacVicar has written a book that really makes the reader want to like it. The ingredients are all there: The challenges of life as an advance man for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, set against the background of the circus` romantic hist… |
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Tales from a Traveling Couch $11.41 After 35 years as a psychotherapist in New York, Robert Akeret took his van on a long journey in an attempt to answer a single question: Did therapy make a real difference in his patients` lives? Did Charles, who fell madly in love with a circus pol |
