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Haunted houses are scary enough without knife-wielding clowns. Especially murderous knife-wielding clowns. So thinks Ellison Russell, single mother, artist, and reluctant sleuth. Now death wears a red nose and Ellison is up to the blood-stained collar of her new trench coat in costumes, caffeine, and possible killers. Who stabbed Brooks Harney? And why? Money? Jealousy? Drugs? With Mother meddling, her father furious, and her date dragged downtown...
4) Frendo lives
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Clown in a cornfield volume 2
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English
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A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims.
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The hero-narrator of The catcher in the rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...
6) Zom-B bride
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Zom-B volume 10
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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B Smith considers making a sacrifice far greater and more surreal than any she has conceived before when she is reunited with the killer clown, Mr. Dowling, who desperately wants B as his partner in crime.
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Farmer books volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who has bounced off the circus train, and reunites him with his clown family.
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Obsidian
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Revenge is sweet for a killer on the loose-and it all started with the murder of Warner Pier's most hated clown.... Everyone who knew the bozo wanted him dead. Odd, then, that a complete stranger was accused of bursting Moe Davidson's balloons. But it's been a month since the miserable shop owner of Clowning Around was killed, and everybody's moving on, including Lee Woodyard. Her chocolate shop, TenHuis Chocolade, is next door to Moe's shuttered...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming." —Marilynne Robinson
Welcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world.
Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose,...
Welcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world.
Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose,...
10) Blown away
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Series
Curl up and dye mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Hairdresser Hilde Higgins, who has always had an unexplainable dislike of clowns, falls in love with a handsome stockbroker who moonlights as a clown at the children's hospital; when two members of the clown group end up dead, Hilde's boyfriend becomes a suspect for murder.
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Dek Elstrom mysteries volume 3
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Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
13) Teatro grottesco
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Virgin Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Often cited as the most curious and remarkable figure in horror literature. His work is noted by critics for its display of an exceptionally grotesque imagination and accomplished prose style. The cycle of narratives introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that will engulf their lives!
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
Description
It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends...
16) Grease paint
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Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Joey Thurmond, a former professional wrestler and rodeo cowboy, quits his day job as a police officer to pursue his dream of performing as a clown full time, he decides to recruit his family and invest all his savings in order to design a show and take it on the road. But when his high-flying performer is threatened with deportation and the 24 hours a day/seven days a week schedule begins to put a strain on the relationship with his co-star and son,...
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"Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. The 2016 presidential contest as told by Matt Taibbi, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion, is in fact the story of Western civilization's very own train wreck. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential...
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Farmer books volume 3
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A wordless picture book in which the farmer visits the little clown and the monkey, and meets the rest of the circus family.
Publisher
Docurama Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Go from the hills of California to the Himalayan Mountains to reveal the life of this one-of-a-kind servant to humanity. Wavy's own words are blended with stories from an array of fellow travelers both cultural and counter-cultural, revealing the man behind the clown's grin and the fool's clothing. Audiences will come to know the activist, optimist, and healer who reaches beyond political, economic, and cultural divisions in his commitment to social...
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