When she plays Booth DeWitt's cruel ex-wife in his film, actress Ariel Kirkwood has trouble getting Booth interested in her offstage, and lion trainer Jovilette Wilder falls for Keane Prescott, a lawyer who inherits ownership of the circus

"P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts. Here is a pageant of nineteenth-century America's gullibility and thirst for marvels, as told by the master of revels himself. A born storyteller, Barnum recalls his association...

"An unlikely-and entirely unforgettable-tale of a most unusual friendship between Flora, an elephant calf stolen from her African home, and David, the circus impresario and magician, who adopts, trains, and ultimately liberates her in a tale freely inspired by actual events"--

Circus owner, Grimley, hasn't realized that the days of the circus are long gone. In Lincolnville, where his circus's performance is canceled for Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huckjam Tour, Grimley and his Carney cronies hatch a plan to take out the extreme sports icon, while a group of young skaters stand in the wya of his plan.