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10 best books like Among the Wonderful (Stacy Carlson): The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, The Circus in Winter, The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno, Still She Haunts Me, The Trespass, Pug Hill, Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense, High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline

The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
AuthorRobert Hough
ISBN0802140432
In the 1910s and '20s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and...
The Circus in Winter
AuthorCathy Day
ISBN0156032023
From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change the course of a man's life-or the manner of his...
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno
AuthorEllen Bryson
ISBN0805091920
Water for Elephants meets Geek Love in this riveting first novel, an enchanting love story set in P. T. Barnum's American Museum in 1865 New York City

Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by none other than P. T. Barnum to work at his...
Still She Haunts Me
AuthorKatie Roiphe
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a shy Oxford mathematician, reverend, and pioneering photographer. Under the pen name Lewis Carroll he wrote two stunning classics that liberated children’s literature from the constraints of Victorian moralism. But the exact nature of his relationship with Alice...
The Trespass
AuthorBarbara Ewing
ISBN0312314205
London 1849. The capital city is living in fear. Cholera is everywhere. Eminent MP Sir Charles Cooper decides it is too risky for his younger daughter, the strangely beautiful and troubled Harriet, and sends her-but not her beloved sister Mary-to the countryside.

Rusholme is a world away...
Pug Hill
AuthorAlison Pace
ISBN0425209717
For Holly Golightly, there was always Tiffany's. For me, there's always Pug Hill. For as long as I've lived in New York, whenever I've just wanted to think, or relax, or be happy, or even sad, my destination of choice has been, without fail, Pug Hill. For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, unconditional friendship,...
Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal
AuthorJoe Nickell
ISBN1567316700
Interest in the paranormal is at an all-time high. Ghosts, UFOs, psychic power & other unexplained phenomena are endlessly fascinating. People often seem to accept or reject claims of the paranormal based on their fundamental beliefs as if such matters were theological. In contrast, this book...
Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
AuthorJim Steinmeyer
ISBN1585426407
The seminal biography of the twentieth century’s premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort—a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean, to describe the unexplained.

By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place.

Charles...
The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
AuthorJohn Ralston Saul
ISBN0743236602
This is a damned interesting and amusing book.

It's a dictionary in the same vein as Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary. It ruminates on the meaning of words and phrases rather than sets the meaning in stone. The author makes it very clear that this is his opinion and not The Truth.

Here's...
High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline
AuthorJim Rasenberger
ISBN0060004347
With the birth of the steel-frame skyscraper in the late nineteenth century came a new breed of man, as bold and untamed as any this country had ever known. These "cowboys of the skies," as one journalist called them, were the structural ironworkers who walked steel beams -- no wider, often, than the face...
The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York
AuthorJoseph Berger
ISBN0345487389
“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface

Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover...
Break the Skin
AuthorLee Martin
ISBN0307716759
Laney—a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world—thinks she’s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; a story that will haunt her forever.

Seven...
The Giant Yo-Yo Mystery
AuthorGertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN0807508780
Henry, 14, Jesse, 12, Violet, 8, and Benny, 6, once ran away after their parents' deaths and chose to live in a boxcar rather than face the unknown with their Grandfather. Much time has passed and they are happily living with him. The boxcar has been moved to his yard.

In this 107th book, the children...
The Ultimate Book of Top Ten Lists: A Mind-Boggling Collection of Fun, Fascinating and Bizarre Facts on Movies, Music, Sports, Crime, Celebrities, History, Trivia and More
AuthorListVerse.com
ISBN1569757151

BIZARRE STUFF, AMAZING FACTS, ASTONISHING MYSTERIES, NATURAL WONDERS, LITTLE-KNOWN PEOPLE, USEFUL TIPS AND MUCH, MUCH MORE

From crime, movies and music to science, history and literature, this book offers an incredible array of intriguing top-10 lists, including:

•Urban...
Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days
AuthorKen Jennings
ISBN0345499972
Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac is the ingeniously organized book where, for a change, the all-time Jeopardy! champ gets to ask the questions–and where every day of the year will give you the chance to test your trivia mettle.

For example–February 21: In 1912, on this...
The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
AuthorGeoffrey Abbott
ISBN0312325630
A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions ,strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day.

Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without...
Mr. Darwin's Shooter
AuthorRoger McDonald
ISBN0140288597
In this richly detailed novel based on the life of Syms Covington, Charles Darwin's hard-working shipboard assistant and later his house-servant, Roger McDonald shines a light on a man forgotten by history, capturing the breathtaking excitement of the historic voyage of the Beagle and brilliantly...
The Utterly, Completely, And Totally Useless Fact-o-pedia
AuthorCharlotte Lowe
ISBN0007837933
Improve your small talk and sharpen your conversational skills with this giant collection of ridiculously useless but endlessly fascinating facts. Organized from A to Z, there are over 1,000 trivia tidbits for you to persue. Start off with little-known facts about Aristotle and Barbie, and continue...
The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information: If You Thought You Knew All the Things You Didn't Need to Know - Think Again
AuthorNoel Botham
ISBN0399535020
From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information-a collection of even greater insignificance.

More useless than ever before! Impress know-it-all friends with this all-new hodgepodge of frivolous facts and silly statistics that no one really needs to...
Counterknowledge
AuthorDamian Thompson
ISBN1843546752
We are being swamped by dangerous nonsense. From 9/11 conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial, creationism to alternative medicine, we are all experiencing an epidemic of demonstrably untrue descriptions of the world. For Damian Thompson, these unproven theories and spurious claims are forms...
Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
AuthorMangesh Hattikudur
ISBN0060882514
Friends? Romans? Countrymen?
You never know whom you'll have to impress
at your next corporate shindig or keg party.

Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the punch bowl isn't the trick. In fact, that's exactly why we're handing you Cocktail Party...
How Does Aspirin Find a Headache? : An Imponderables' Book
AuthorDavid Feldman
ISBN0060740949
Ponder, if you will ...

Do snakes sneeze?
Why didn't the three musketeers carry muskets?
What happens to the holes that are punched out of looseleaf paper?
Why don't people smile in old photos?

Pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these questions and much more...
Listverse.com's Ultimate Book of Bizarre Lists: Fascinating Facts and Shocking Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime, Celebrities, History, and More
AuthorJamie Frater
ISBN1569758174
FREAKS OF NATURE, ODD CRIMES, SHOCKING DEATHS,
DEVASTATING DISASTERS, BLOOD-CURDLING RITES,

CRAZY CONSPIRACIES & MUCH, MUCH MORE

•Gruesome Torture Devices

•Mass Hysteria Outbreaks

•Unbelievable Miniatures

•Disturbingly Scary...
Metropolis
AuthorElizabeth Gaffney
ISBN0812970853
On a freezing night in the middle of a New York winter, a young immigrant is suddenly awakened by a fire in P. T. Barnum’s stable, where he works and sleeps, and soon finds himself at the center of a citywide arson investigation. Determined to clear his name and realize the dreams that inspired his hazardous...
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