Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
by:
Peter H. Wood (author)
May 1904. Coney Island’s newest amusement park, Dreamland, has just opened. Its many spectacles are expected to attract crowds by the thousands, paying back investors many times over.Kitty Hayward and her mother arrive by steamer from South Africa. When Kitty’s mother takes ill, the hotel doctor...
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May 1904. Coney Island’s newest amusement park, Dreamland, has just opened. Its many spectacles are expected to attract crowds by the thousands, paying back investors many times over.Kitty Hayward and her mother arrive by steamer from South Africa. When Kitty’s mother takes ill, the hotel doctor sends Kitty to Manhattan to fetch some special medicine. But when she returns,
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781492631484 (1492631485)
Publish date: 2016-06-07
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Wow. I never thought I would say this, but I am pretty sure this is another great book about the plague. Do you think it’s on purpose that my other favorite book on the topic, while wholly different and based on actual events, is called Year of Wonders? Both titles, weirdly, sound much more inviting...
First things first: I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley. The book is already out and I really recommend it. Book summary: After Kitty Hayward’s mother vanishes from their Coney Island hotel in 1904, Kitty finds herself alone, hungry, penniless, and far away from her native England. Th...
Welcome to the Unusuals! They are a tight knit bunch of individuals with heart. I was attracted to this novel because of the circus theme and I loved the cover but inside I found much more. Individuals came to Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet, a dime museum, for it was an attraction that provided rare a...
Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet by H. P. Wood creates a rich setting of carnivals and shows on Coney Island in the early 1900s and a dire plot based around an outbreak of the plague. However, it is truly the characters – the Unusuals & the Dozens - who are the heart of the book. The characters make thi...
#MAGRUDER'SCURIOSITYCABINET AVAILABLE 6/1/16 FUNTASTICAL! 4 STARS @HilaryWrites @Sourcebooks I thought this was a very fun and entertaining book with a whole cast of strange characters. And I do mean strange. They called themselves the Unusuals and that they were. It was a adventurous tale of ...
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