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One and only Ivan stories volume 1
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Inspired by the true story of a captive silverback gorilla known as Ivan, this novel celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby,...
3) The surge
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Storm runners volume 2
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After barely surviving a terrifying hurricane, Chase and his friends Nicole and Rashawn have made it to the safety of Nicole's family farm, which is also the winter home of the Rossi Brothers Circus, where flood waters are rising and dangerous circus animals are on the loose.
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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Storm runners volume 1
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Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a "storm runner," but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida.
8) EO
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Criterion Channel
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[2023]
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Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
9) Dumbo
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In celebration of this landmark film's 70th anniversary, experience the daring adventures of the world's only flying elephant with a dazzling all-new digital restoration with enhanced picture and sound. Includes tons of bonus features, including: a deleted scene and song; The Making of Dumbo; and The Magic of Dumbo: A Ride of Passage - a heartfelt look at Disneyland's most popular ride.
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Virgil Films & Entertainment
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[2012]
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One Lucky Elephant begins with circus producer David Balding's realization that Flora, the orphaned African elephant he adopted and made the star of his circus, is tired of performing. What unfolds is a nine-year odyssey to find Flora a good home. Caught between the human and animal world, Flora epitomizes the harsh reality elephants face in our expanding man-made world. One thing is certain, after watching this film, you'll never look at an elephant...
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Spanning several decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in...
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Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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Jumbo was a superstar of the Victorian era. Every day tens of thousands of people would visit this adored animal known as “the Children’s Pet” or, more simply, “the Giant Elephant,” at the London Zoo. When P.T. Barnum purchased him for his Greatest Show on Earth, Jumbo’s transport to the U.S. made headlines for weeks, and he was an instant sensation in America. His name entered our lexicon as an adjective for oversized things, and half...
14) Dumbo
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Disney Press
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2019.
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When Dumbo the baby circus elephant is separated from his mother, he will need help from his friends and belief in himself to find his way back to her.
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Rafe Khatchadorian is horrified that because of a missed science assignment he has to go to summer school; but instead of three weeks in a school room he finds himself a volunteer at Bushytail animal refuge, which is really hard, smelly work--and somehow he needs to use the experience (and the help of a girl he meets there) to produce a first class science report.
16) Performers
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Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
2011
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"Describes the role of animals in movies, sporting events, and various competitions"--Provided by publisher.
18) Not my circus
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Capstone Editions, a capstone imprint
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[2024]
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Olivia was supposed to buy eggs at the store, but instead she came home with a circus; despite food fights and a lack of potty training, Olivia is determined to keep her animals--even after Mr. Victor changes his mind and wants them back.
19) Saving Flora
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Dream Factory Group/DFG Productions
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's fourteen-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the circus. All that stands between them and the safety of the elephant preserve is three hundred miles of woods, one raging river, two elephant hunters, and the fear of not making it.
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
c2010
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The author gives readers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the backstage lives of animals in the entertainment industry. He examines troublesome issues, including animal training practices, their living conditions, and their lives after the curtain comes down.
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