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The charlatan's boy
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Jonathan Rogers |
Grady knows nothing of his origins--he does not even have a last name--but as he and a huckster travel from one small, frontier town to another he poses one of the wild, ugly swamp beasts called feec… |
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Wonder show
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Hannah Rodgers Barnaby |
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco'… |
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Sideshow of merit
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Nicole Pietsch |
You couldn't call Mount Rosa Hospital a good place to be in 1957, when you were fourteen. But it's where Tevan George was, and James Rowley too, "convalescing" from tuberculosis. And it's where both … |
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Church of Marvels
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Leslie Parry |
"New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, deter… |
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The captain and "the cannibal"
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James Fairhead |
"Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quic… |
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The electric woman
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Tessa Fontaine |
"Follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mo… |
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Truevine
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Beth Macy |
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a swel… |
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Freaks, geeks & sideshow floozies
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Tina L. Jens,John Weagly |
276 p. ; 22 cm |
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Freaks of Sideshow and Film
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Stevan Gould,Mary Brett |
224 pages : 23 x 29 cm |
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The showman and the slave
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Benjamin Reiss |
"In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum N… |
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