San Antonio College Library

Publisher's description: With a riotous mix of saints and devils, street theater and dancing, and music and fireworks, Christian festivals are some of the most lively and colorful spectacles that occur in Spain and its former European and American possessions. That these folk celebrations, with roots reaching back to medieval times, remain vibrant in the high-tech culture of the twenty-first century strongly suggests that they also provide an indispensable...

Eyeing the Flash is a fascinating insider's view of the carnival underworld -- the cons, the double-dealing, the quick banter, and, of course, the easy money. The story of a shy middle-class kid turned first-class huckster, Peter Fenton's coming-of-age memoir is highly unorthodox, and utterly compelling.

"Ray Bradbury's classic novel, now reissued, tells about the year Halloween came a week early. For Jim, age thirteen, eleven months, and twenty-three days, and his best friend, Will, age thirteen, eleven months, and twenty-four days, it was the week they both grew up. Halloween came and went, but the boys would never be young again. It all began with the handbill blowing down a dark street of their small Midwestern town: Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium...

On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.