Weiss, Elizabeth
Summary: "All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her twin sister, Josie. As "The Sisters Sweet," they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious father and managed by their practical mother, who were once theatrical stars in their own rights. Then, in an explosive act, Josie exposes the fraud in a spectacular fashion and runs away to Hollywood. The family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIBird, Sarah
Summary: "Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's novel is about one woman--and a nation--struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIRCambron, Kristy
Summary: "Harry Houdni's one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them . . . or silence her before she can reveal them on her own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMWheeler, Richard S.
Summary: "The story of a vaudeville troupe that makes its way to Western mining towns"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHESummary: The tale of Rupert, a trained squirrel, who unknowingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arnold Leibovit Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GREWilson, Kip
Summary: On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WILPhelan, Matt
Summary: Henry bonds with a young Buster Keaton over games of baseball while the latter summers locally with a troupe of vaudeville performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC PHEFay, Juliette
Summary: "Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudevile, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure--and a last-ditch effort to save their family"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FAYFay, Juliette
Summary: "In 1919, the four Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping along. Their father is a low-paid boot stitcher in Johnson City, NY, and the Turners are always one paycheck away from eviction. When their father's hand is crushed and he's forced to quit, their domineering mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their best--and only--chance for salvation. With everything at stake, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2016