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100			_aGruen, Sara.
245			_aWater for elephants : a novel
260			_aChapel Hill, N.C. : _bAlgonquin Books, _c3/6/2008
300			_a335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
500			_aA novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put i
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650			_aCircus -- Fiction.
650			_aDepressions -- Fiction.
650			_aCircus performers -- Fiction.
852			_oF GRU
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