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It happened at the fair a novel

Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair's Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth,...

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Main Author: Gist, Deeanne.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Nashville, TN : Howard Books, 2013.
Subjects:
World's Columbian Exposition > (1893 : > Chicago, Ill.) > Fiction.
Inventors > Fiction.
Teachers of the deaf > Fiction.
Love stories > Illinois.
Christian fiction > Illinois.
Historical fiction > Illinois.
Summary: Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair's Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in the art of lip-reading. The young teacher is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his lessons while intently watching her lips. Like the newly invented Ferris wheel, he is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an inventor, and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. Can he keep his feet on the ground, or will he be carried away?
Item Description: Includes reading group guide.
Physical Description: viii, 404 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781451692372
1451692374
9781476738499 (hc.)
1476738491 (hc.)
Author Notes: Deeanne Gist holds a degree from Texas A&M. After a short career in elementary education, she retired to raise her four children. Over the next fifteen years, she ran a home accessory and antique business; wrote freelance articles for numerous publications including People, Parents, Parenting, Family Fun, Houston Chronicle and Orlando Sentinel; and started her own publishing company. After a mainstream publisher agreed to license her parenting I Did It! product line and committed to publish the next generation of her system, she returned to writing. Her novels include A Bride Most Begrudging, A Bride in the Bargain, Beguiled, and Maid To Match. She has won two Christy Awards.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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