Summary: "Chip Baskets (Zach Galifianakis) wants to follow his dream of being a French clown. However, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown--and competing with his siblings for his mother's (Louie Anderson)...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASSummary: The continuing story of Chip Baskets and the Baskets family as Chip, his twin brother Dale and their mother Christine, continue to navigate the drama that is their lives in Bakersfield, California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASSummary: The continuing story of Chip Baskets and the Baskets family as Chip, his twin brother Dale and their mother Christine, continue to navigate the drama that is their lives in Bakersfield, California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASHamilton, John
Summary: This title introduces readers to the job of rodeo clown. A short history of the profession is included, and readers will learn about the two types of rodeo clowns, traditional and bullfighter. Job duties such as entertaining the crowd, distracting bulls, and performing comedy sketches are examined. Equipment needed to do the job right is discussed, as are the education and training needed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&D Xtreme, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 791.8 HAMFrazee, Marla
Summary: A wordless picture book in which the farmer visits the little clown and the monkey, and meets the rest of the circus family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRASummary: Follow five carnival workers who are kidnapped and forced to participate in a violent game. The goal of the game is to survive twelve hours against a gang of crazy killer clowns. Rob Zombie's most brutal film to date!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 31Klein, Adria F. (Adria Fay)
Summary: Many clowns in colorful costumes are riding on Circus Train.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Pre-Reader (Orange), Call number: JBR ORANGE KLEKing, Stephen
Summary: They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINSpringer, Lisa
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Noelle Layne knows horror. Every trope, every warning sign, every survival tactic. She even leads a successful movie club dedicated to the genre. Who better to throw the ultimate, most exclusive Halloween party on all of Long Island? With some of the top influencers in her school on the guest list, including gorgeous singer-songwriter Archer Mitchell, her popularity is bound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRPunter, Russell
Summary: When Brown Cow visits the circus, she puts on a surprise performance. She slips, trips, drops things and loses her hat - but the ringmaster is thrilled!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Childhood friends must reunite to fight an evil demon posing as a clown after having successfully defeated him as children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IT RATED RSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ITFrazee, Marla
Summary: A wordless picture book in which a farmer rescues a baby clown who's bounced off the circus train, and reunites him with his clown family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE No Wordsl FrazeeGalifianakis, Zach
Summary: Due to financial difficulties and his inability to learn French, Chip Baskets flunks out of clown school in France, returning home to California to live with his mother and work as a rodeo clown while confronting his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BASMeyer, Charles Robert
Summary: Describes how to become a circus clown and acquire such skills as mime, developing gags, and applying clown make-up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: D. McKay Co. 1977
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A splashy, colorful look at life under the big top that weaves the personal stories of the performers in with the spectacle and color of the circus. Includes an incredible train wreck.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREBailey, Tessa
Summary: A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BaileyJohnson, Sharon Sliter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: School Zone Pub. Co. 1985
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Place a hold to request this item.Elliott, Will.
Summary: Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe of the Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetuated. Yet, in this place - peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous, where violencce and savagery are the norm-Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Underland Press 2009
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Summary: Tito the clown dreams of doing magic like Manu the magician, but he cannot seem to perform a trick on his own, so he asks Manu for help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENKing, Stephen
Summary: It began--and ended--in 1958 when seven desperate children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultimate terror.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Rushdie, Salman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005