When a ragtag circus shows up in the town of Buchanan, Kansas, fourteen-year-old Randy Carmichael faces a deep mystery. Why is his alcoholic mother so troubled by the troupe's arrival? What does Circus Olympus mean to her pastand to Randy's future? Voices summon him, a godlike figure appears in his dreams, and supernatural adversaries lay in wait for him as he embarks on a dangerous quest that will take him beyond mortal reality.
... chip shop , which was very dear to his heart ( and very dear to mine because of the stories that came out of it ) , he would sometimes tell stories that I had heard before , but I certainly never tired of them . And at the end he would ...
... wind today ... I had a little problem . - Really ? What happened ? - Well ... juggler , ” I said , pressing and releasing the sizzling push - button on ... juggling show . Because of the wind , one of my juggling sticks fell into the lake ...
"I am not aware of this wisdom," Mafalda replied. "It sleeps within you. One day you will feel it in some way." "Do we not all carry with us some of the wisdom of our ancestors?" Augustus asked. "We do," replied Gropius, "but it fades ...
“You had better get it, gentile. Uncle loves fresh fish.” He held her a brief moment longer wanting to bury his face in the nape of her neck and experience the fragrance of her riverwashed body. It was an unfulfilled desire, ...
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West—from the ...
She bravely passes through some scary places, but with still no sign of Timka she almost gives in to despair until...? The happy ending to this story involves the giving and receiving of a beautiful birthday gift.
... wind carried it in its belly ( from Michael Maier , Atalanta fugiens , Oppenheim 1618 ) , engraving . most ... juggler's three attributes are here united : sun , moon and wind . Michael Maier ( 1568-1622 ) was a famous and influential ...
The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most ...
In a dying world, an epic adventure is born .
... juggling in public is essentially begging. You can earn 1d10 cp/day. 10 Cha Moving while ... wind; +4 competence 25 Dex bonus to affect audience checks. Memorable ... juggler suffers a -2 penalty when determining whether the audience was ...