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When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines makes her the only one who can set things right.
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2017.
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Professor Henry Whiteoak is a salesman, a con artist, and a cheat. From a brightly colored wagon, he sells chemical concoctions and steeply priced contraptions to any and all who attend his medicine shows. But when he arrives in Barbrady, Kansas, Whiteoak's talents in a fight and a mind that's sharper than a stiletto may be the only cure for what ails the town.
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[2019]
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"It's 1919, and Doc Bell's Miracles and Mirth Medicine Show is on the road, performing variety acts onstage and peddling miracle 'cures' to the gullible. The show's been around for decades, but now it's struggling to stay afloat amid internal discord and dwindling sales. Set against a backdrop of rural poverty and a wave of anti-black violence, Tonic and balm examines the tenuous solidarity and shifting alliances of people on the fringes of society"--Page...
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2017.
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"Doctor Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now huckster and seller of snake-oil, travels the wet roads of the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, illusionists, fortunetellers and musical whores. Under the quiet command of the mysterious, merciless and murderous Lyman Rhoades, they entertain the masses whilst hawking the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic, a vital elixir touted to cure all ills both physical and spiritual ......
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