01797cam a2200349 i 4500 366720935 TxAuBib 20181218120000.0 130418s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012037839 9781451692372 pbk. 1451692374 pbk. (OCoLC)839834266 TxAuBib rda Gist, Deeanne. It happened at the fair [TP] : a novel / Deeanne Gist. 1st Howard Books trade pbk. ed. New York : Howard Books, 2013. viii, 404 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes reading group guide. 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? 20181218. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Fiction. Inventors Fiction. Teachers of the deaf Fiction. Love stories. Christian fiction. Historical fiction.