Circus of Fear

Circus of Fear
Author: Rose Estes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1983
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN:

You learn that a cruel circus owner plans to take over the country. Somehow you must get away and expose his scheme. The dangers you face are many and the choices are yours.

Leaving the OCD Circus

Leaving the OCD Circus
Author: Kirsten Pagacz
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1633410153

A true story of taming OCD: “Her description of her escalating illness is irreverent, brutally honest, and compelling [and] her successes are inspiring.” —Booklist It’s like the meanest, wildest monkey running around my head, constantly looking for ways to bite me. That was how Kirsten Pagacz described her OCD to her therapist in their first session when she was well into her thirties. She’d been following orders from this mean taskmaster for twenty years, without understanding why. The tapping, counting, cleaning, and ordering brought her comfort and structure, two things lacking in her family life. But it never lasted. The loathsome self-talk only intensified, and the rituals she had to perform got more bizarre. By high school, she was anorexic and a substance abuser—common “shadow syndromes” of OCD. By adulthood, she could barely hide her problems and held on to jobs and friends through sheer grit. Help finally came in the form of a miraculously well-timed public service announcement about OCD—at last, her illness had an identity. After finally learning how to conquer her OCD, Pagacz shares her story—from her traumatic childhood to the escalation of her disorder to her triumph over it—along with knowledge and insight about such techniques as meditation, yoga, cognitive-behavioral therapy, medication, and exposure therapy, to help others leave the OCD circus and live a better life.

Trapped in the Circus of Fear

Trapped in the Circus of Fear
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages: 131
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780590419208

After a week at Circus Camp, the reader is invited to join a real circus for a week, but life under the big top becomes a nightmare as an evil ringmaster plots to transform normal children into horrible sideshow freaks. Original.

Trapped in the Circus of Fear (Give Yourself Goosebumps Special Edition)

Trapped in the Circus of Fear (Give Yourself Goosebumps Special Edition)
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545820790

The original series from the Master of Fright--now a major motion picture in theaters August 7, 2015! You did so well at Circus Camp, you're allowed to join a real circus for a week. But it turns out to be a Circus of Fear! Meet the Girl with Five Tongues and the Kid with Rotten Flesh. These sideshow freaks used to be normal kids-until the evil ringmistress got hold of them. And now she's after you. You'd better destroy her evil powers-before she turns you into the Kid Who Lives in a Jar! The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!

Circus Mirandus

Circus Mirandus
Author: Cassie Beasley
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1910002585

Micah's grandfather is gravely ill. He tells his grandson about a mysterious magic circus he visited as a boy, where he was promised a miracle by a man who can bend light. Micah is determined to find out the truth of the Circus Mirandus before it's too late, but he'll have to wrestle with giant white tigers - and his wicked aunt - along the way.

Circus of Sins

Circus of Sins
Author: Natasha Rhodes
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2010-05-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849971684

When young vampire-hunter Kayla Steele is bitten by a werewolf, she thinks it's the end of her world. However, little does she know that the real end of the world is not that far away. Master vampire Harlequin has made a deal with the Devil and is now planning to commit the ultimate sin - killing an angel - which will trigger an ancient curse and bring about war in Heaven. If that happens, it will be the end of mankind forever. Kayla's only hope now lies in a mysterious stranger named Niki, who knows where the angel is being kept. Together, they must rescue the angel before midnight on Sunday in order to stave off Armageddon. But unless Niki is who he claims to be, the stakes just got one hell of a lot higher...

The Night Circus

The Night Circus
Author: Erin Morgenstern
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385534647

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.

Circus Galacticus

Circus Galacticus
Author: Deva Fagan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054758136X

Trix's life in boarding school as an orphan charity case has been hard but when an alluring young Ringmaster invites her, a gymnast, to join Circus Galacticus she gains an entire universe of deadly enemies and potential friends, along with a chance to unravel secrets of her own past.

Fear of the Animal Planet

Fear of the Animal Planet
Author: Jason Hribal
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2011-01-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1849350752

Taking the reader deep inside of the circus, the zoo, and similar operations, Fear of the Animal Planet provides a window into animal behavior: chimpanzees escape, elephants attack, orcas demand more food, and tigers refuse to perform. Indeed, these animals are rebelling with intent and purpose. They become true heroes and our understanding of them will never be the same.

Beer and Circus

Beer and Circus
Author: Murray Sperber
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 142993669X

Beer and Circus presents a no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject. Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics. Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports. He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight out of today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve. Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values. Beer and Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers.