Hidden on the High Wire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden on the High Wire write by Kathy Kacer. This book was released on 2022-09-27. Hidden on the High Wire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family’s circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis has put them all in grave danger. When the circus is forced to shut down and Irene’s father is taken away, Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus. Every day is a frightening new kind of balancing act, caught between the desire to perform and the need to hide—even in plain sight.
On the High Wire
On the High Wire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the High Wire write by Philippe Petit. This book was released on 2019-06-25. On the High Wire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau) In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker’s first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.
High-Wire Heartbreak
High-Wire Heartbreak - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook High-Wire Heartbreak write by Anna Schmidt. This book was released on 2022-01-01. High-Wire Heartbreak available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1936--A party at the Ringling mansion Ca d’Zan in Sarasota, Florida, leads to a robbery--and possibly death. A successful historical mystery writer, Chloe Whitfield comes to Ca’ d’Zan to research her next novel. Chloe’s fascination with the circus is rooted in family stories of her great-grandmother Lucinda Conroy, who reportedly was a trapeze artist of some renown. She’s heard hints of scandal—and perhaps larceny, but no details. Chloe’s grandmother—rumored to be Lucinda’s only offspring—was raised in an orphanage and never knew her mother. Intrigued as she is, Chloe has no intent of writing about Lucinda until she sees a poster featuring Lucinda as the star performer for a 70th birthday gala for John Ringling in May of 1936. From there the trail goes cold. Who was Lucinda and what happened to her?
Hiding Edith
Hiding Edith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hiding Edith write by Kathy Kacer. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Hiding Edith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The remarkable true story of a young girl named Edith and the French village of Moissac that helped her and many other children during the Holocaust. The town's mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in a safe house, risking their own safety by hiding the children from the Nazis in plain site, saving them from being captured and detained and most certainly saving their lives.
Starring Mirette and Bellini
Starring Mirette and Bellini - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Starring Mirette and Bellini write by Emily Arnold McCully. This book was released on 2014-06-30. Starring Mirette and Bellini available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mirette and the Great Bellini sweep all of Europe with their act on the high wire, but when Bellini is arrested after a performance in St. Petersburg, Mirette is challenged to master the Death Walk to save him from prison. The sequel to the Caldecott Medal-winning Mirette on the High Wire.
