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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband.
After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year?s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis?s father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son?s inability to serve in WWII due to h...
Jacob Jankowski, a young man suddenly adrift at the height of the Depression, enters the world of a second-rate circus struggling to survive through one-night stands in town after town. Working in the circus menagerie, Jacob meets Marlena, the beautiful star of the equestrian act...
A veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the anger of her volatile husband.
Philadelphia, 1942. After an embarrassing moment in high society on New Years Eve, Maddie and Ellis Hyde have been cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army colonel. Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favour is to succeed in a venture his father att...
A group of apes are kidnapped from a language laboratory and subsequently cast on a reality television show that calls into question scientific assumptions about common DNA that is shared by apes and people.
When an explosion at the Great Ape Language Lab, severely injures scientist Isabel Duncan and releases her special apes, she must connect with her own kind to save her family of apes.
While her brother, Ellis, and his friend try to find the Loch Ness monster in an attempt to get back into her father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
Annmarie is going back home to New Hampshire with her daughter. Annmarie's father is in ill health and needs her help. However, Annmarie is going to have to face the ghosts of her past.
On the verge of turning forty, Annemarie Zimmer struggles to cope with the changes in her life as well as her anxieties over her relationship with the man she loves, her equestrian daughter's dreams of Olympic glory, and her own past.
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,...