The runaway international bestseller and beloved fiction classic. Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train-and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen's darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than-greatest show on earth. Jacob finds a place tending the circus animals, including a seemingly untrainable...

Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.

This is an examination of the circus world as the author enters the intensively competitive training program at France's École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. It reveals the remarkable culture transitioning from the classical performance to the modern circus represented by the amazing Cirque du Soleil. Along the way we meet the instructors who have dedicated themselves to keeping the circus skills alive. This is an appealing, richly evocative history...

W.C. Fields stars as a lovable con man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif (Carol Dempster).

After blaming herself for her mother's illness, Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, dreams that she is in a strange world with bizarre creatures and masked inhabitants.

An orphan refugee possessing the power to communicate telepathically with animals inherits a spaceship that she hopes will enable her to find the home planet of a cat-like creature with whom she has bonded.

"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...

The three goodhearted fugitives stop at a roadside inn during a ferocious thunderstorm. Grig, the scheming and selfish innkeeper whose endeavour is to capture the trio and secure a reward from the Queen, is hot on the trail for the fugitives.

During a visit to Arzor, Laris, a young woman in bondage to the circus manager Dedran, stumbles upon her master's disturbing ties to the interstellar Thieves Guild, which seeks to create telepathic beasts for their own sinister purposes.