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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"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 nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied--a family, a purpose, even love--waits for her there in the...
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English
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"The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about to change. August Beausoleil and his colleague Charles Pomerantz have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to the remote mining towns of Montana, far from the powerful impresarios who own the talent and control the...
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English
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"Leaving was my sister's choice. I would have to make my own. All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her sister, Josie. As "The Sisters Sweet," they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious parents, who were once themselves theatrical stars. But after Josie exposes the family's fraud and runs away to Hollywood, Harriet must learn to live out of the spotlight--and her sister's shadow. As Josie's star...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudevile, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure--and a last-ditch effort to save their family"--
In 1919 the four Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping along in Johnson City, NY, always one paycheck away from eviction. When their father's hand is crushed and he's forced to quit his job their domineering mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their best chance for salvation....
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
GN 370L
Language
English
Description
The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Harry Houdini'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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Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sometimes in life, opposites are drawn to each other--somehow, each providing the other with something they don't have, but desperately need. National Book Award finalist Elizabeth McCracken pens this graceful, moving tale of an unlikely pairing of two men and their lifelong partnership in show business. Drawn to Vaudeville from a Jewish upbringing in a small town outside Des Moines, Mose Sharp meets Rocky Carter at a comedy club. Missing his usual...
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Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
5On 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 embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own...
12) The impersonator
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting since she was a toddler. Oliver, never one to miss an opportunity, makes a proposition: with...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
666 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Anything Goes: "The cowboys, gold miners, outlaws, gunmen, prostitutes, and marshals who populate the Wild West never see much big-city entertainment. Most Western towns are too wild and rowdy for entertainers to enter, let alone perform in. All that is about change, for August Beausoleil and his colleague Charles Pomerantz have taken the Beausoleil Brothers Follies to remote mining towns in Montana. Thought the locals are starved for entertainment,...
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Publisher
New Hope Publishers, an imprint of Iron Stream Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
v, 259 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
She has a powerful voice able to mesmerize the vaudeville audiences, but Annalise Rycroft has spent her whole life afraid she'll be lost to obscurity. During the 1918 flu epidemic she has a feverish experience: characters from her favorite book unlock a hidden part of her past, which involves an absent father and a missing younger brother. As Annalise rises to stardom, a stranger with fears and failing of his own takes center stage in her life. Together...