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Water for elephants :

by Gruen, Sara. Published by : Algonquin Books, (Chapel Hill, N.C. :) Physical details: 445 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN:9781616200718 (pbk.); 1616200715 (pbk.).
Subject(s): Circus -- Fiction. | Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction. | Circus performers -- Fiction. | Elephants -- Fiction. | Historical fiction. | Love stories.
Year: 2006
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As a young man during the Great Depression, Jacob Jankowski is tossed by fate onto a rickety train that is home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. For Jacob, the circus is both his salvation and a living hell. Put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie, he meets Marlena, a beautiful equestrian star married to a charismatic, but twisted, animal trainer. And he meets Rosie, a seemingly untrainable elephant who is the great gray hope for the third-rate traveling show. The bond that grows among this unlikely trio is ultimately their only hope for survival.

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