Welcome, welcome to CARAVAL, Stephanie Garber's enchanting, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling fantasy debut about two sisters swept up in a mysterious competition filled with magic, heartbreak, and danger

Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.

But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to attend. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval's mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, and her sister disappears forever.

Continue the adventure in Legendary and Finale--out now!

Includes a glossary of Spanish phrases.

Circus enthusiasts will recognize this collection as a love letter to the source of its inspiration and appreciate the authors' showcasing of the love and dedication of circus performers and the allure of the big top. - Kirkus

Welcome to the greatest show on earth... and beyond!

Run away to the dazzling world of circuses, where the line between reality and magic blurs, with this spellbinding collection of short stories.

Discover a princess who moonlights as a trapeze artist, defying both gravity and royal expectations. Journey with a trick rider at a magic steampunk circus, where gears and sorcery intertwine. Feel the thunderous applause as a pro wrestler fights to make his mark at a traveling show, and experience the tender heart of a strongman who falls for a small-town girl.

An artist who finds himself in a madcap house brimming with eccentric circus performers, where creativity knows no bounds. A teen who attends a prestigious camp under a false identity, only to find herself in hot water when she starts crushing on her aerial partner. A runaway who stumbles upon a fae circus, and an interstellar thief who ventures into an enigmatic show inside a black hole.

From contemporary fiction to historical tales to sci-fi and fantasy, discover mystery, adventure, danger, romance, and more under the big top. So step right up, and prepare to be amazed!

Stories by Amy Bearce, Paige Daniels, Dorothy Dreyer, Mary Fan, Janina Franck, Leigh Hellman, Jamie Krakover, Karissa Laurel, Adriano Moraes, Milan Obradovic, Selenia Paz, and Lisa Toohey.

Featuring illustrations by Sean Eddingfield, Ben Falco, Martina Localzo, Adriano Moraes, and Marcella W.

With a foreword by Hovey Burgess.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Leela Bose plays to win.

A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elitist private school, Leela can't stand him. Unfortunately, he'll be competing in the state league, so their paths are set to collide.

But why attempt to tolerate Firoze when Leela can one-up him? The situation is more complicated than Leela anticipated, though, and her participation in the tournament reveals that she might have tragically misjudged the debaters -- including Firoze Darcy -- and more than just her own winning streak is at stake...her heart is, too.

Debating Darcy is bestselling author Sayantani DasGupta's reinterpretation of beloved classic Pride and Prejudice -- imaginative, hilarious, thought-provoking, and truly reflective of the complex, diverse world of American high school culture.

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence and resides at the core of cinema and television history. By associating theoretical considerations and close readings of specific works, as well as diachronic and synchronic approaches, this volume offers a complex panorama of issues related to seriality including audience engagement, intertextuality and transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots.

Written by a team of international scholars, this book highlights a diversity of methodologies that will be of interest to scholars and doctoral students across disciplinary areas such as media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also interest students attending classes on serial audiovisual narratives and will appeal to fans of the series it addresses, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.

The Greatest Showman meets This Is Us by way of Sarah Dessen in this heart-wrenching, hopeful contemporary novel about a multiracial teen who risks it all to follow her dreams by joining the circus, from the award-winning author of Starfish.

Harley Milano has dreamed of becoming a trapeze artist for as long as she can remember. With parents who run a famous circus in Las Vegas, she spends almost every night in the big top watching their lead aerialist perform, wishing with all her heart and soul that she would be up there herself one day.

After a huge fight with her parents, who continue to insist she go to school instead, Harley leaves home, betrays her family, and joins the rival traveling circus Maison du Myst re. There, she is thrust into a world that is both brutal and beautiful, where she learns the value of hard work, passion, and collaboration. At the same time, Harley must come to terms with the truth of her family and her past--and reckon with the sacrifices she made and the people she hurt in order to follow her dreams.

From award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes a luminous, unforgettable examination of love, loyalty, and the hard choices we must make to find where we truly belong.

Instant New York Times bestseller #1 IndieNext Pick Entertainment Weekly Must List

Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or a performance. It's the closest you'll ever find to magic in this world...

Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.

But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval's mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever.

Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.

The Hunger Games meets The Night Circus. Grade: A-. --Entertainment Weekly
Impressive, original, wondrous. --USA Today
Spellbinding. --US Weekly
Magnificent. --Publishers Weekly, starred review
I lost myself in this world. --Sabaa Tahir, author of An Ember in the Ashes
Beautifully written. --Renee Ahdieh, author of The Wrath and the Dawn
Shimmers with magic. --Marie Rutkoski, author of The Winner's Curse
Darkly enchanting. --Kiersten White, author of And I Darken
Decadent. --Roshani Chokshi, author of The Star-Touched Queen
Like stepping into a living dream. --Stacey Lee, author of Outrun the Moon
Destined to capture imaginations. --Kirkus Reviews
Ideal for fans of The Night Circus, Stardust, and The Hunger Games. --School Library Journal

Instant New York Times bestseller
#1 IndieNext Pick
Entertainment Weekly Must List (Grade: A-)

Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or a performance. It's the closest you'll ever find to magic in this world . . .

Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.

But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval's mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season's Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.

Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever.

Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.

-The Hunger Games meets The Night Circus. Grade: A-.- --Entertainment Weekly
-Impressive, original, wondrous.- --USA Today
-Spellbinding.- --US Weekly
-Magnificent.- --Publishers Weekly, starred review
-I lost myself in this world.- --Sabaa Tahir, author of An Ember in the Ashes
-Beautifully written.- --Renee Ahdieh, author of The Wrath and the Dawn
-Shimmers with magic.- --Marie Rutkoski, author of The Winner's Curse
-Darkly enchanting.- --Kiersten White, author of And I Darken
-Decadent.- --Roshani Chokshi, author of The Star-Touched Queen
-Like stepping into a living dream.- --Stacey Lee, author of Outrun the Moon
-Destined to capture imaginations.- --Kirkus Reviews
-Ideal for fans of The Night Circus, Stardust, and The Hunger Games.- --School Library Journal

Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school play, Talk. When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape his own life for a while and become a different person. What he gets instead is the role of a lifetime: Kit Webster. In the play, Kit's thrown together with Lindsay Walsh, the female lead and the school's teen queen. Lindsay, tired of the shallow and selfish boys from her usual circle of friends, sees something real in Kit - and wants it. But Kit's attention is focused on Pablo, another boy in school. The play is controversial; the parents put pressure on the school to shut it down. And when Kit and Lindsay rally to save Talk, they find themselves deep into a battle for the truth: onstage, and inside themselves.

Best friends and sisters Lo and Rita have spent their lives flying through the air on the trapeze under the lights in the big top. The nomadic circus community is a close-knit family, but those bonds are threatened as secrets and lies surface and Lo finds forbidden love with a boy from outside the circus. The two sisters find themselves at odds with each other for the first time as they both search for love and test the limits of family loyalty. Lo must face up to a family member's deception and navigate her newfound love. Will she manage to land on her feet?

Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies' ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline.

This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway in order to challenge the Enlightenment paradigm of objectivity in sciences by emphasising the role of the embodied and partial socio-cultural perspective of the scholar in the production of knowledge.

Through carefully selected case studies of contemporary natural, cultural and technological performances, contributors to this volume show that the proposed approach requires new genealogies of traditional concepts, emerges from encounters with contemporary performative arts or contact zones and may potentially go beyond the human in order to include non-human ways of being in the world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, cultural studies, media studies and theatre studies.

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, industrial, philosophical, and political perspectives, showing how seriality as a paradigm informs media convergence and resides at the core of cinema and television history. By associating theoretical considerations and close readings of specific works, as well as diachronic and synchronic approaches, this volume offers a complex panorama of issues related to seriality including audience engagement, intertextuality and transmediality, cultural legitimacy, authorship, and medium specificity in remakes, adaptations, sequels, and reboots.

Written by a team of international scholars, this book highlights a diversity of methodologies that will be of interest to scholars and doctoral students across disciplinary areas such as media studies, film studies, literature, aesthetics, and cultural studies. It will also interest students attending classes on serial audiovisual narratives and will appeal to fans of the series it addresses, such as Fargo, Twin Peaks, The Hunger Games, Bates Motel, and Sherlock.

By 1909, Apollinaire, born Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, was gaining recognition within avant-garde circles, admired for his connections with artists and for his literary innovations. His personal history, shaped by an unconventional upbringing, transient romances, and an immersion in various cultural influences, fueled his poetry's dynamic style. La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, initially published in a truncated form, captures the intensity and complexity of his experiences and relationships, culminating in his first major collection, Alcools, in 1913. This work was significant not only for Apollinaire's bold content but also for his choice to omit punctuation, a deliberate stylistic choice that invites fluid interpretation and emphasizes the poem's rhythmic cadence and emotional tone.

Throughout Alcools, Apollinaire's poetry merges tradition and innovation, resonating with the mystical allure of folk song, romantic imagery, and urban melancholy. The poems evoke a timeless search for identity, meaning, and connection in an increasingly fragmented world, blending the old with the radically new. The mix of myth, contemporary references, and introspective depth in Alcools encapsulates Apollinaire's contributions to modernist poetry, establishing him as a transformative figure in early 20th-century literature.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

By 1909, Apollinaire, born Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, was gaining recognition within avant-garde circles, admired for his connections with artists and for his literary innovations. His personal history, shaped by an unconventional upbringing, transient romances, and an immersion in various cultural influences, fueled his poetry's dynamic style. La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, initially published in a truncated form, captures the intensity and complexity of his experiences and relationships, culminating in his first major collection, Alcools, in 1913. This work was significant not only for Apollinaire's bold content but also for his choice to omit punctuation, a deliberate stylistic choice that invites fluid interpretation and emphasizes the poem's rhythmic cadence and emotional tone.

Throughout Alcools, Apollinaire's poetry merges tradition and innovation, resonating with the mystical allure of folk song, romantic imagery, and urban melancholy. The poems evoke a timeless search for identity, meaning, and connection in an increasingly fragmented world, blending the old with the radically new. The mix of myth, contemporary references, and introspective depth in Alcools encapsulates Apollinaire's contributions to modernist poetry, establishing him as a transformative figure in early 20th-century literature.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

This novel has notes of School of Rock and The Breakfast Club with high school and family drama.

In Candy's junior year, she has a huge role in the school's production, and she's hoping Benny's attention is the start of a new romance. But family troubles send her to live with her grandparents and attend school in the suburbs while her single mom goes to rehab to get her life on track. Not knowing when she'll reunite with her mom and leaving friends and a possible romance behind overwhelms Candy with anxiety. Maybe her old friends will forget about her? Maybe Benny flirts with everyone? She can't find a creative scene and becomes a target for pranks and bullying by trolls and the wannabe influencers she meets on her first day.

Candy is assigned to a group project with a lacrosse god, teacher's pet, tech geek, and drama queen, but her focus is scheming an escape back to her old life. Will Candy run from her problems and let others define her? Or will she remember her creative roots and lead the group into something the school won't soon forget?

Read Brass City Girl because: Life Imitates Art.