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Brown, Lisa Carnahan, Matthew. Cushman, Karen. Dunn, Katherine Woolf, John Yan, LiankeWoolf, John
Summary: A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable freak performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.3 WOOSummary: Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Cushman, Karen.
Summary: In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUSSummary: A documentary about the disappearing world of the travelling sideshow. Weaves together archival footage, personal scrapbooks, and interviews with the performers to present a slice of Americana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SIDCarnahan, Matthew.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARBrown, Lisa
Summary: Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show--until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails, causing Jane's death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted, altered, and alone for the first time, can Isabel build a new life that's truly her own?
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020
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Summary: Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNYan, Lianke
Summary: The trouble-free lives of the disabled residents of Liven in China are disrupted when a money-hungry county official convinces them to start a traveling freak show so that he can use the proceeds to buy the embalmed corpse of Lenin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012