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Author:

Parry, Leslie, 1979- author.

Title:

Church of marvels : a novel / Leslie Parry.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

HarperLuxean imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

442 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Secrets--Fiction.
Strangers--Fiction.
Tenement houses--Fiction.--Fiction.
Abandoned children--New York (N.Y.) v Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals--Fiction.--Fiction.
Sideshows--Fiction.--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Large type books.

Summary:

New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill finds and rescues an abandoned baby while cleaning privies behind a tenement. The Church of Marvels, a Coney Island sideshow, has burnt to the ground, leaving Odile and Belle Church's mother dead in its ashes, and Belle has vanished. Alphie awakens to find herself in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum, where she meets a girl with extraordinary talent that might save them both. As these strangers' lives become increasingly connected, their stories and secrets unfold. --back cover.

ISBN:

0062392859
9780062392855

Locations:

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

ENPC715 -- Sanborn Public Library (Sanborn)