Sideshows


The Museum of Extraordinary Things
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
Murder Under Her Skin (Pentecost and Parker, #2)
The Phantom Twin
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Schlitzie the Pinhead
The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupre
Extraordinary Jane
Burntown
The Charlatan's Boy
Barnum!: In Secret Service to the USA
The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America
Freak Like Me
Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.
Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.
Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels

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