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Cambron, Kristy.
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Ringling, John, 1866-1936 -- Fiction.
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
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Cambron, Kristy.
Ringling, John, 1866-1936 -- Fiction.
Circus performers -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
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The ringmaster's wife / Kristy Cambron.
by
Cambron, Kristy.
Thomas Nelson, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION
CAM
Subjects
Ringling
,
John
,
1866-1936
--
Fiction
.
Circus performers
--
Fiction
.
Life change events
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780718041540 (trade pbk.)
Description:
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
An ounce of courage. A split-second leap of faith. Together, they propel two young women to chase a new life--one that's reimagined from what they might have become. In turn-of-the-century America, a young girl dreams of a world that stretches beyond the confines of a quiet life on the family farm. With little more than her wit and a cigar box of treasures to call her own, Mable steps away from all she knows, seeking the limitless marvels of the Chicago World's Fair. There, a chance encounter triggers her destiny--a life with a famed showman by the name of
John
Ringling
. A quarter of a century later, Lady Rosamund Easling of Yorkshire, England, boards a ship to America as a last adventure before her life is planned out for her. There, the twenties are roaring, and the rich and famous gather at opulent, Gatsby-esque parties in the grandest ballrooms the country has to offer. The Jazz Age has arrived, and with it, the golden era of the American circus, whose queen is none other than the enigmatic Mable
Ringling
. When Rosamund's path crosses with Mable's and the Ringlings' glittering world, she makes the life-altering decision to leave behind a comfortable future of estates and propriety, instead choosing the nomadic life of a trick rider in the
Ringling
Brothers' circus. A novel that is at once captivating, deeply poignant, and swirling with exquisite historical details of a bygone world, The Ringmaster's Wife will escort readers into the center ring, with its bright lights, exotic animals, and a dazzling performance that can only be described as the greatest show on earth!
Genre:
Christian
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
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Adult Fiction
FICTION CAM
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