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1) Spectacle
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese 'pygmy' - a person of petite stature - arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound, 4-foot 11-inch tall man with an orangutan. The attraction became an international sensation, drawing thousands of New Yorkers and commanding headlines from across...
2) Spectacle
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nathalie Baudin's column for Le Petit Journal summarize new arrivals at the morgue, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. When she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered-- from the perspective of the murderer himself-- her search for answers eventually sends her into the Parisian Catacombs. Nathalie's psychic ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer's identity-- and she'll have to do it before...
3) Spectacle
Author
Series
Menagerie volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When their coup of Metzger's Menagerie is discovered, Delilah and her fellow cryptids find their newly won freedom brutally stripped away as they are sold into The Savage Spectacle, a private collection of "exotic wildlife." Specializing in ruthless cryptid cage matches, safari-style creature hunts and living party favors, the Spectacle's owner, Willem Vandekamp, caters to the forbidden fetishes of the wealthy and powerful. At the Spectacle, any...
4) Spectacle: 2
Author
Publisher
ONI Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Anna and Kat return for the second book of Megan Rose Gedris's paranormal circus murder mystery, Spectacle! A murder is tough thing to solve, even without temperamental performers, supernatural occurrences, and the ghost of the victim giving commentary. But as Kat's only link to the living world, it's up to scientifically-minded Anna to figure out who killed her sister--before any more murders rock the small traveling community. Yet as she...
5) Spectacle: 1
Author
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Pragmatic engineer Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural--until her twin sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost. Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're sharing a body while trying to identify the killer. With few leads, a troupe full of secretive folk, and strange paranormal occurrences popping up around the circus, solving the case seems...
6) Spectacle: 5
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
7) Spectacle: 3
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From fake psychic to true believer, circus performer Anna finds herself dealing with the supernatural more and more, and is determined to use her growing powers to confront her sister's murderer. Has she finally figured out whodunit, and can she prove it before a demon does her in?"--Provided by publisher.
8) Spectacle: 4
Author
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How did the 1963 film Cleopatra bring about the destruction of the golden age of epic films set in ancient Rome and destroy the old Hollywood studio system? How does this film treat the historical accounts of figures like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian? Why do its grand costumes and sets still deserve admiration?
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank Fernandez's family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family moves--a lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. So when his parents announce they're moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a lighthouse--this time for good!--Frank is thrilled.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saints and Spectacle examines the origins and reception of the Middle Byzantine program of mosaic decoration. This complex and colorful system of images covers the walls and vaults of churches with figures and compositions seen against a dazzling gold ground. The surviving eleventh-century churches with their wall and vault mosaics largely intact, Hosios Loukas, Nea Moni and Daphni in Greece, pose the challenge of how, when and where this complex...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a variety of cultural practices and performances, both traditional...
Author
Language
English
Description
Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based was to him preposterous. It is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last uncontrollable force, based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors,...
15) Hell's half-acre: the untold story of the Benders, a serial killer family on the American frontier
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1873 the people of Labette County in Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried on a homestead seven miles south of the town of Cherryvale, in a bloodied cellar and under frost-covered soil, were countless bodies in varying states of decay. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for over two decades, and the land on which the crimes took place became known as 'Hells Half-Acre.' When it emerged that...
16) Counting puzzles
Author
Series
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"With the help of stimulating puzzles, solving math problems doesn't have to be a chore. In fact, with this engaging book, it can be a lot of fun. Readers follow simple and concise directions and learn to complete age-appropriate addition problems. Colorful illustrations provide important visual guidance and help hold the attention of reluctant readers. Puzzles are an excellent tool to help with the development of important skills and reinforcement...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, Paul Mullins examines a wide variety of material objects and landscapes that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us, looking at the way the material world shapes how we imagine, express, and negotiate difficult historical experiences"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount--the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon & Schuster--hung precariously in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A biography of Edgar Allan Poe with an emphasis on his engagement with the scientists and scientific discoveries of his era"--
Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The official behind-the-scenes book of concept, production, and post-production art for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Go inside the creative process behind the most anticipated film of the century. The latest trilogy in the Star Wars film series brings the Skywalker Saga to a close and The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will take readers into the creative process behind visualizing the epic worlds, creatures, characters, costumes, weapons,...
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