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Summary: SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. J amrach's Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Birch, Carol
Summary: London had the best freaks, always had. The Egyptian Hall, the Promenade of Wonders, the Siamese twins, pinheads, midgets, cannibals, giants, living skeletons, the fat, the hairy, the legless, the armless, the noseless, London had seen it all. In the Hall of Ugliness the competition was stiff. But noone had ever seen anything quite like Julia . . . Pronounced by the most eminent physician of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRContents: Chicken reel -- Little girl, be careful what you say -- Chicken reel -- How they broke away to go to the Rootabaga Country -- Lisa Jane -- How the potato face blind man enjoyed himself on a fine spring morning -- Railroad Bill -- Doors -- Sourwood mountain -- The story of Blixie Bimber and the power of the gold buckskin whincher -- Sittin on top of the world -- The junk man -- Wanderin -- Baby...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: August House Publishers 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN SANHooker, John Lee
Contents: Chill out (things gonna change) / John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Chester Thompson (4:45) -- Deep blue sea / Brook Benton, Clyde Otis (4:05) -- Kiddio (3:08) -- Medley: Serves me right to suffer ; Syndicator (6:23) -- One bourbon, one scotch, one beer (3:21) -- Tupelo (3:54) -- Woman on my mind (5:26) -- Annie Mae (5:16) -- Too young (4:42) -- Talkin' the blues (3:40) -- If you've never been...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995