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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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Traces the story of world-famous trapeze artist Leitzel and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona of the famous Flying Codona Brothers, chronicling her disadvantaged youth, three marriages, and achievements with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Tessa Fontaines astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discoverythrough her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lavinia Warren never let her heightor the lack of itprevent her from leading a full and adventurous life. Although she never grew more than three feet tall, she became a beloved teacher, a world traveler, an entertainer and the friend of many powerful figures. Lavinia was teaching at a local school when she heard about an opportunity to travel doing shows as a “human curiosity” on a Mississippi River boat. Eventually she met P. T. Barnum and worked...
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