August 2011
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Featured Non-Fiction: The Magical Life of Long...
Long Tack Sam was a renowned magician of the vaudevillian era. He was often an opening act for the Marx Brothers and Orson Welles viewed him as a mentor. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam is Ann Marie Fleming’s attempt to write a graphic novel memoir that would bring her great-grandfather back into the lexicon of pop culture. With use of photos, timelines, illustration, handbills and newspaper...
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Featured Fiction: Carter Beats the Devil
For the finale of his popular stage show, Charles Carter cuts off Warren G. Harding’s head, feeds it to a lion and then completely restores the president’s health. Only, President Harding dies two hours later and Carter the Great is forced to flee the country…or does he? Carter Beats the Devil is Glen David Gold’s fictionalized biography of the famed 1920s magician, whose life is filled with...
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Follow the Big Apple Circus through its 2008/09 season and see fabulous feats of human strength, agility, humor and invention, along with unexpected babies, a bomb threat, the recession, cancer, flaring tempers and retirement. PBS has all six episodes for free.
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““Every now and then you get some hoods in the tip who start hollering that the...”
–  Step Right Up! by Dan Mannix Also published as:  Memoirs of a Sword Swallower
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Featured Fiction: The Final Confession of Mabel...
A tiger can rip a person into twisted ribbons, and Mabel Stark would know. Mabel was mauled by tigers on fifteen occasions, three of them severely. 175 stitches to save an arm here, face lacerations there, and it was all in the name of becoming the world’s foremost female tiger trainer. She worked in the best circuses and could command near twenty tigers at once. Robert Hough presents the...
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