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"Aerial silks athletes hang from long strips of fabric and perform acrobatics suspended from them with beauty, grace, and sheer physical skill . . . [This book] profiles the leading [aerial] silks performers, circus arts organizations that teach courses, and places where one can see the acts in person. Readers learn how aerial silks compares with dance, trapeze, and yoga, how to spot quality instructors and studios, and the necessary practices to...
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Before Batman trained him to be Robin, Dick Grayson was star of his family of trapeze artists. 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.
11) High wire
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Acrobat Zack Freedman races against time to solve a mystery surrounding the disappearance of a necklace that belonged to a spectator who has threatened to shut down the circus.
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Nik Wallenda is the face of the Flying Wallendas, the famous circus family known for performing crazy feats without safety nets. Nik is also known for his daring televised tightrope walks, including over Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, and, in 2020, he will walk over an active volcano. Nik is a seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallendas and has been walking the wire since he took his first steps, but he had never experienced fear until a tragic...
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Nik Wallenda, "King of the High Wire," doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Great Wallendas, he grew up performing, entertaining, and pushing the boundaries of gravity and balance.
When Nik was four years old, he watched a video from 1978 of his great grandfather, Karl Wallenda, walking between the towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico, stumbling, and falling to his death because of improper rigging. When Nik heard...
When Nik was four years old, he watched a video from 1978 of his great grandfather, Karl Wallenda, walking between the towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico, stumbling, and falling to his death because of improper rigging. When Nik heard...
17) Flyboy
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After closeted trans teenager Asher is sent to Catholic school, his only escape is at night when he dreams of the Midnight Circus. He assumes it's not real until his Midnight Circus trapeze rival walks into his classroom, and he learns both that the circus is real, and his time there is limited. Desperate, he sets both worlds on a collision course that endangers all he holds dear. Now he must decide how far he'll go, and if he can face his biggest...
18) Tightrope
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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"--
19) Death in the air
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Young Sherlock Holmes, committed to solving crimes after his mother's death, is visiting his father at work when an aerialist, practicing a high-trapeze performance at the legendary Crystal Palace, falls to the ground, landing at Holmes' feet, and uttering two cryptic last words that send the boy on a dangerous search for answers.
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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 the rival traveling circus Maison du Mystère. There, she is thrust into a world that is both brutal and beautiful, where she learns the value of hard work, passion, and collaboration. At the...