Photographs inspire a fictional circus

Jul. 18--The animals in Sara Gruen's novels often steal the show from their human counterparts. Her first two books -- Riding Lessons and Flying Changes -- centered on the world of competitive show jumping. Her latest novel, Water for Elephants (Algonquin, $23.95), features a lovable, pivotal circus elephant named Rosie that only understands Polish.

It's no surprise then that Gruen shares her home with a menagerie that rivals that of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, the fictional, Depression-era circus that boasts Rosie as its star.

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TILE PHOTOGRAPHS NOW AVAILABLE AT SL COMPANY

Salt Lake City-based Regency Royale Inc. has been selected as the exclusive distributor for Utah, Wyoming and Idaho by Imagine Tile, a company which has developed a process whereby photographic images can be glazed into ceramic tile.

According to the Jersey City, New Jersey-based concern, the process is similar to the way a printer applies ink to a page, yet when the image is glazed into the ceramic tile at extremely high temperatures, the glaze and the tile literally fuse. Textures, photos, illustrations and three dimensional images can be reproduced on tile.

The tiles are rated for heavy commercial and can be used indoors or outdoors, on floors or walls, are frost and waterproof, unaffected by ultraviolet rays, and are abrasion and chemical resistant.
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