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Life Story of the Ringling Brothers by Alfred T. Ringling	When the Circus Came to Town! An American Tradition in Photographs Hardcover – March 24, 2020 by Dawn Rogala, David Haberstich and Shannon Perich	The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself	The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story by Henry Ringling North	Tales of a small town circus legend by Dale R Albrecht	Women of the American Circus, 1880-1940 by Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene

Lillian Leitzel Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus by Dean N. Jensen	Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson	Beneath the Big Top: A Social History of the Circus in Britain	American Legends: The Life of P.T. Barnum by Charles River	Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum	Ward Hall King of the Sideshow! by Tim O'Brien

Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Succes by Jerry Apps	P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr.	Ringling, The Last Laugh: This is the real story of the Ringling Brothers as told by John Ringling, the last surviving brother, in 1936 by Michael Lancaster	Circus Mania: The Ultimate Book for Anyone Who Ever Dreamed of Running Away with the Circus	Fall of the Big Top: The Vanishing American Circus by David Lewis Hammarstrom	The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum by Candace Fleming.

Balance: A Story of Faith, Family, and Life on the Line by Nik Wallenda	Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus	Three Ringlings in Montana by Lee Rostad	Mud Show: A Circus Season by Fred Powledge	Traveling showmen: The American circus before the Civil War by Stuart Thayer	Big Top Typewriter: My Inside Adventures through the World of Circus, by David Lewis Hammarstrom.

Ringling: The Florida Years by David C. Weeks	The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top by Janet M. Davis	The Last of the Wallendas: by Delilah Wallenda Nan DeVincentis Hayes	Step Right This Way: The: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty by Edward J. Kelty Miles Barth Alan M. Siegel Hoagland, Edward	The Bloomington-Normal Circus Legacy: The Golden Age of Aerialists by Maureen Brunsdale	Ringling Remembered: Through the Eyes of a Circus Clown

America's Greatest Circus Train by Bruce C. Nelson	The Circus Moves by Rail 1st Edition by Tom Parkinson (Author), Charles Philip Fox (Author)	The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore by Richard M. Lytle	Show Trains of the 20th Century by Fred Jr. Dahlinger	Trains of the Circus, 1872-1956 By Jr. Fred Dahlinger	American Circus Posters (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Charles Philip Fox

Spangles, Elephants, Violets & Me: the Circus Inside Out by Victoria B. Cristiani Rossi	From Circus Dream to Three-Ring Reality by Liliane Parbot-Johnson	Two Hundred Years of the American Circus: From Aba-Daba to the Zoppe-Zavatta Troupe by Tom Ogden	Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010 by Matthew Wittmann	The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus by Linda Simon	American Circus: An Illustrated History by John Culhane
				by Shirley Carrol O'Conner
The Circus Fire A True Story of an American Tragedy by O'Nan, Stewart	The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top (Disaster)	Life Is A Circus	Lost Circuses of Ohio Paperback by Conrade C. Hinds	A Balanced Life by Johnny Yong	Norma I. Quintana: Circus: A Traveling Life by Norma Quintana

Life in a Three-Ring Circus: Posters and Interviews by Sharon L. Smit	You Like it? I Do It Again. The Dieter Tasso Story, as told to Ron Dentinger	Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus by Paul Binder	Big Top Boss: John Ringling North and the Circus by David Hammarstrom	From Barnum & Bailey to Feld: The Creative Evolution of the Greatest Show on Earth by Ernest Albrecht	Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy

Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the World by Paul Chambers	Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation by John Sutherland	Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison by Michael Daly	Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer	Detour On An Elephant: A Year Dancing with The Greatest Show on Earth by Barbara File Marangon	Jumbo's Keeper: The autobiography of Matthew Scott and his biography of P.T. Barnum's great elephant Jumbo

Balancing Act: Memoir of a Florida Youth by Sarah Chapman Paperback – Feb. 17, 2014	Simply Sarah (A Circus Girl's Cookbook) by Sarah Chapman	Circus Buffoon by Danny Chapman	Balancing Act: Secrets of a Circus Aerialist Paperback – March 23, 2017	Clowns: In conversation with modern masters by Ezra LeBank and David Bridel	I love you honey, but the season's over by Connie Clausen

Tall Tales of a Short Clown by Barry Lubin	h The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia by Gregory Renoff	A Pictorial History of Performing Horses: by Charles Philip Fox	Step Right Up!: The Adventure of Circus in America by Lavahn G. Hoh	The Circus Book: 1870-1950 by Dominique Jando and Linda Granfield	The Circus That Ran Away with a Jesuit Priest by Nick Weber

Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W.C. Coup	The American Circus by Susan Weber	Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend

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Ward Hall King of the Sideshow! by Tim O'Brien	Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks by Drew Friedman	The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age by John Woolf	Circus and Carnival Ballyhoo Sideshow Freaks, Jabbers and Blade Box Queens by A. W Stencell	James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed: On & Off the Midway by James Taylor	American Sideshow by Marc Hartzman

Pickled Punks & Girlie Shows: A Life Spent on the Midways of America by Rick West	The Tattooed Lady: A History by Amelia Klem Osterud	Carny Folk by Francine Homberger	Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by Robert Bogdan	Seeing Is Believing: America's Sideshows by A W Stencell	Side Show: My Life with Geeks, Freaks and Vagabonds in the Carny Trade by Howard Bone

Carny Sideshows by Tony Gangi	Secrets of the Sideshows by Joe Nickell	Freaks, Geeks, And Strange Girls by Teddy Varndell	Freak Show: Sideshow Banner Art by Gideon Bosker	Freaks by Daniel Mannix	The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts. By Tessa Fontaine

Conjoined Twins Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton by Linda Frost					Freak Babylon: An Illustrated History of Teratology and Freakshows by Jack Hunter