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A Novel
by Melanie Benjamin
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by Therese Anne Fowler
Published Oct 2019
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by Nicholas Rinaldi
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsAn irresistible novel set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and based on the real life of Tom Thumb, a young man only twenty-five inches tall.
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
by Susan J. Gilman
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsIn 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. No sooner than they land does Malka find herself crippled - and yet survives to shape her own destiny.
by Phillip Margulies
Published Oct 2014
Read ReviewsA sweeping historical novel based on the extraordinary life and times of Belle Cora, the daughter of a New York merchant who went on to become a millworker, a prostitute, a notorious madam, a murderess, and eventually one of San Francisco's richest and most revered dowagers.
by Rachel DeWoskin
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsA scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.
by Erin Morgenstern
Published Jul 2012
Read ReviewsThe circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night...
by Sara Gruen
Published May 2007
Read ReviewsAn atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932 illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.
by Lori Lansens
Published Apr 2007
Read ReviewsMeet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to write her autobiography, it inevitably becomes the story of her short but extraordinary life with Ruby, the beautiful one. From their awkward first steps--Ruby's arm curled around Rose's neck, her foreshortened legs ...
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