Author: Angela Witczak
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647467326
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Allison Hawn
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512025491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Get Book Here

Book Description
Has being late to work due to dancing clowns ever been a problem for you? Have you ever had to defend yourself against a giant iguana? Does the overture to The Music Man make you violently twitch? In Life is a Circus Run by a Platypus readers are immersed into what it would be like to live every day as if a herd of ballerinas were chasing you, without the inconvenience of actually having to run. This collection of truly bizarre short stories taken from the author, Allison Hawn's, life takes one across the world and into the strangest crevices of civilization. The lessons learned through her adventures might very well save the reader if they too ever have to face birthing a cow, calming distraught technical support or death by furniture.

Author: Jeffrey Raz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997904840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
Love Death Circus is a love letter to the Bay Area circus community that has been the author's artistic home for over four decades. The novel follows Frank Singer, a veteran clown, through a year of death and dying, first a colleague, then his mother, his best friend and a mentor. As exotic as the characters are on-stage, they face the same scary world as everyone else when illness hits their community. Framed by a series of benefit performances, Love Death Circus takes you deep into an idiosyncratic community of artists with an outrageous sense of adventure reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen or Walter Mosley.

Author: Frances Bevan
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 150433714X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Get Book Here

Book Description
When life has turned into a three ring circus and you dont know how it got that way it can cause you to feel overwhelmed and out of control. Change needs happen, but where do you start? This book is designed to help you: identify what you are juggling, determine why you are juggling these things, decide what to put down, learn how to put them down without breaking them, and how to get back up after you fall.

Author: Shirley Carroll O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780738813141
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description
In this warm, informative, exciting and hilarious memoir, "Life is a Circus", Shirley Carroll O'Connor, takes you on the early adventures of the first woman publicist under the Big Top for Clyde Beatty,Cole Bros. and Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Circuses. When a blind date in 1945 resulted in marriage to a circus Ringmaster, she had no idea that she would be recounting stories of losing eight elephants on Hollywood Blvd, sharing a car with an uncaged leopard on her honeymoon, having an eight foot "giant" stuck in her back seat or counting as good friends circus and side-show performers like "The Sheep-headed Men", the "Flipper Boy", the "Two-faced Man", and "Lavonda", a full-sized head on a platter, families shot from cannons, aerialists, clowns and the "little" people, the midgets and dwarfs. In first hand accounts she provides humorous insight into a Circus era now long gone, and against this background is a warm love story that will appeal to readers of all ages. After 25 years with the circus, and the death of her husband, Shirley Carroll O'Connor's career took another direction when the agency she founded with her husband, The Carroll's Agency, Inc., handled publicity for some of the biggest rock stars & theatrical productions in show business. When you turn the last page of "Life is a Circus" you will feel as if you have laughed and shared memories with a "new best friend."

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Charlie Nelsen
Publisher: Lifevest Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781932338256
Category : Chores
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Dennis Hampel
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1609578198
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Get Book Here

Book Description
"WHEN YOUR LIFE IS LIKE A CIRCUS"....and whose life isn't? Here's the story of a family of entertainers with 48 years of real life experiences of international entertainment in circuses and stage productions that included hanging from a helicopter while strapped in a straightjacket! Brushes with death from rogue elephants, traveling hundreds of "mountain miles" a day, and meeting strangers who turned out to be 'angels' who showed up at "just the right time" are all integral parts of this exciting testimony of a family who felt God was directing their paths and who learned how to listen to His directions as they enjoyed His blessings along the way. This book contains the story of an entire family who took their God given talents and developed programs to motivate "children of all ages" to be the very best they were created to be! It's a true life story that can inspire the reader with the motivation to get thru challenges as THEY listen to God's direction in THEIR personal lives encouraging everyone to "MAKE CHRIST THEIR RINGMASTER"!

Author: Micah D. Childress
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621903958
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Get Book Here

Book Description
The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible. The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm—the “circus family.” Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers’ lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class. As a study in sport and social history, Childress’s account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. MICAH D. CHILDRESS received his PhD in history from Purdue University and currently works as a Realtor® in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His articles have appeared in Popular Entertainment Studies and American Studies.

Author: Cathy East Dubowski
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671017306
Category : Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Get Book Here

Book Description
Michelle is going to circus camp and she wants to be a trapeze artist. But she's just discovered that she's afraid of heights!