8 Top history books like The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top by Michael Skidgell

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The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top

By: Michael Skidgell

3.83

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make …

If you liked the history plot in The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top by Michael Skidgell , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson (Mercy Thompson #0.1, #0.6, #0.8, #1.5, #4.5, #5.5, #7.4)

By: Patricia Briggs

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Mercy Thompson's world just got a whole lot bigger... A collection of all-new and previously publis… read more

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2. Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903

By: Anthony P. Hatch

3.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquoi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

3. The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore

By: None

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

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4. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

5. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more

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6. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

By: Grady Hendrix

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more

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7. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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8. The Guests

By: Margot Hunt

3.90

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

From USA Today bestselling author Margot Hunt comes the chilling tale of what happens when a family… read more

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9. Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

By: Patricia Briggs

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must stop a disaster of world-shattering proportions… read more

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"Locks only eve keep out people who aren't determined to come in."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Fine. When they shovel our frozen corpses out next spring, they can put 'They thought it would be fun' on our gravestone."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Saddest thin in the world is listening to a nineteen minutes of a twenty-minute sex scene," said Sherwood in a mock-mournful voice."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

"Are you embarrassed that your audiobook started in the middle of a very hot sex scene between three men in a swimming pool?" asked Sherood politely. "There's no reason to be embarrassed about that."

-Patricia Briggs, Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)

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10. The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more

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"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

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11. Buried

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.10

Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition

An old-school reporter discovers that the search for the truth is still full of surprises in a twis… read more

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12. Welcome to Nightmare Island

By: Devin Cabrera

3.73

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Join five friends as they unwittingly embark on a perilous journey to a purportedly state-of-the-ar… read more

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13. The Reddening

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.62

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

One million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civi… read more

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14. Tastes Like Candy

By: Ivy Tholen

3.64

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge. In 2020, Violet Warren and h… read more

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15. The Waltham Murders

By: Susan Zalkind

3.09

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking col… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Woods of the Raven

By: Mary Calmes

4.11

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Something wicked this way comes…and it might be too late to stop it. Xander Corey lives simply, sus… read more

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17. Tastes Like Candy 2: Sugarless

By: Ivy Tholen

3.53

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Five years ago, a group of teenage girls entered the Poison Apple Halloween Carnival for a scavenge… read more

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18. Slow Burner

By: Laura Lippman

3.86

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman watches her marriage implode over text message and decides that ignorance is not bliss in t… read more

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19. Canadian Boyfriend

By: Jenny Holiday

3.60

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A charming and heartfelt romance about a woman who comes face to face with the fake Canadian boyfri… read more

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20. Snowflakes

By: Ruth Ware

3.52

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

When a barrier between truth and illusion grows stronger, a family’s trust crumbles in this arresti… read more

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21. Rescue Below Zero (Search and Rescue)

By: Ian Mackersey

4.14

Format: 175 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping true account of eighteen heroic men trapped in the heart of the freezing Arctic.Ideal … read more

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22. The Gift

By: Alison Gaylin

3.66

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s a desperate mother to do when her child suddenly disappears? Anything it takes to keep the f… read more

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23. Her Husband's Lies

By: T.J. Brearton

4.08

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Callie has a great life, living in a ten-acre home in the Adirondacks with her husband, Abel. Their… read more

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24. The Lake Turned Upside Down: The Story of Unthinkable Tragedy and Incredible Survival in the 1969 Outing, Minnesota F4 Tornado

By: Sue Dugan Moline

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

August 6, 1969 became the fifth deadliest day in Minnesota tornado history, killing a total of fift… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

By: Kristen Richardson

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world of debutantes opens into a revealing story of women across six centuries, their limited o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill by Alvin F. Oickle

26. Disaster in Lawrence: The Fall of the Pemberton Mill

By: Alvin F. Oickle

3.77

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. The Silver Bridge Disaster of 1967 (Images of America: West Virginia)

By: Stephan G. Bullard

3.91

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge, the first eyebar suspension bridge in the United States, was an eng… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Night Ends with Fire (The Night Ends with Fire, #1)

By: K.X. Song

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Infused with magic and romance, this sweeping fantasy adventure inspired by the legend of Mulan fol… read more

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"She swallowed hard. 'They would never let a woman hold on to power."

-K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire (The Night Ends with Fire, #1)

"They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps."

-K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire (The Night Ends with Fire, #1)

"I needed to prove that I, as a woman, could be better than the rest of them. That I too could belong. That I too could be free."

-K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire (The Night Ends with Fire, #1)

"Because it was depravity, for a woman to desire more than her lot in life. To aspire to more than safety, protection. To aspire to power ."

-K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire (The Night Ends with Fire, #1)

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29. THE EDMUND FITZGERALD: FROM GLORY TO GUT WRENCHING TRAGEDY

By: Timothy J. Thompson M.A.

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

On Monday evening, November 10th, 1975, the famous iron ore freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald was desper… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top

By: Michael Skidgell

3.83

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History by James Jessen Badal

31. The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History

By: James Jessen Badal

4.04

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

A devastating loss of life and a community's response March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in … read more

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  • history

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John Glatt

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