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Publisher:
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in this transfixing historical novel inspired by the story of the 1893 World's Fair killer."--
Author:
Publisher:
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"The story of George Ferris, inventor of the iconic Ferris Wheel"--
"The World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, was to be a spectacular event: architects, musicians, artists, and inventors worked on special exhibits to display the glories of their countries. But the Fair's planners wanted something really special, something on the scale of the Eiffel Tower, which had been constructed for France's fair three years earlier. At last, engineer George Ferris...
Author:
Publisher:
Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair comes a historical love story about a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger who meet at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Saddled with a man's name, the captivating Billy Jack Tate makes no apologies for taking on a man's profession. As a doctor at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, she is one step closer to having her very own medical practice--until Hunter Scott asks her to give it all up to become his wife....
Author:
Publisher:
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
1 stars
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
Author:
NoveList Series:
Chicago World's Fair mysteries volume 2.
Series:
Chicago World's Fair mysteries volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When Gilded Age Chicago debutante Eloisa Carstairs meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high society ball, she trusts him with a dark secret and turns to him for protection against a killer on the loose, but their disparate social standing complicates the feelings growing between them.
"It's mid-September of 1893, and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning beauty of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with...
Author:
NoveList Series:
World's worst time machine volume 2.
Series:
World's worst time machine volume 2
Publisher:
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
"Legend says that an eccentric millionaire hid a treasure somewhere inside the legendary 'White City' of Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Elsa Rutledge believes that treasure may hold the key to finding her long-lost grandfather. Relying on the World's Worst Time Machine once again, Elsa and Liam are on the hunt! They're not the only ones. To stay one step ahead of all the other time travelers, the kids must upgrade their technology, forge new friendships,...
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division, who conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for...
It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division, who conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for...
Author:
Publisher:
Tordotcom
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
"New York Times Andrea Hairston's historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she's always been theatrically challenged. That won't necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody...
Author:
Publisher:
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Death lurks around every corner in this unforgettable Jewish historical fantasy about a city, a boy, and the shadows of the past that bind them both together. Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he'll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter's best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a...
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Series:
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date:
Ã2014
Language:
English
Description:
"Revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic that details the life, times, and work of America's most celebrated architect"--
"An engaging, kid-friendly exploration of America's leading architect and his work This revised and updated edition of a longstanding classic, Frank Lloyd Wright for Kids, details the life, times, and work of the celebrated architect. Through simple, kid-friendly prose and anecdotes, author Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Captain Jim and Lady Diana volume 2.
Series:
Captain Jim and Lady Diana volume 2
Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.3 stars
Description:
"Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March's Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March's award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay. 1893: Newlyweds Captain Jim Agnihotri and Diana Framji are settling into their new home in Boston, Massachusetts, having fled the strict social rules of British-ruled Bombay. It's a different life than what they left behind, but theirs is no ordinary marriage: Jim,...
Author:
Publisher:
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"For fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams, a highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel, set in the 1890s about a Scottish heiress who unexpectedly encounters her childhood friend in North America, five years after he disappeared from her family's estate the night of a double murder. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre has rarely strayed from her family's estate in the Scottish Borderlands, save for the occasional trip to Edinburgh, where...
Author:
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle
A...
“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco Chronicle
A...
Author:
Publisher:
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive "New Woman"--the girl behind Tiffany's chapel--and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 World's Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany--heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire--seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of...
Author:
NoveList Series:
Clockwork dark volume 0003
Series:
Clockwork dark volume 0003
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
In The Nine Pound Hammer, John Bemis introduced middle-grade readers to a whole new approach to epic fantasy, founded on characters and themes from American mythology and lore, including the legend of John Henry. Now in the third and final book, the heroes come together at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago for a final confrontation with a businessman and tycoon who is in fact an ageless evil known as the Gog. With his Dark Machine, he intends...
20. Neferet's curse
Author:
NoveList Series:
House of Night. Novellas volume 3.
Series:
House of Night. Novellas volume 3
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
"The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World's Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in her youthful beauty and the excitement around her. But her whole life changed when her mother died, leaving her to be the Lady of Wheiler House. Her father, a powerful bank president, is at the center of an important social hub for the booming young city, and he needs Emily...
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