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The Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in half on stage. One night in Waterloo, Iowa, with young policeman Virgil Holt watching from the audience, she swaps her trademark saw for a fire ax. Is it a new version of the illusion, or an all-too-real murder? When Arden's husband is found lifeless beneath the stage later that night, the answer seems clear. But when Virgil happens...
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Illustrations and simple text introduce Zip, an unlucky alien magician, and his friend Bip. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.
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2022.
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"From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Order, Acts of Violet is a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened. Nearlya decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than ever. While Violet...
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"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much more, for the story it tells reveals the truth behind...
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Moongobble and me volume 1
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Life in the village of Pigbone is boring until an aspiring magician and his talking toad come to town and ask Edward to help them slay the Dragon of Doom.
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Millennium's rule novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
553 pages ; 25 cm.
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In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, unearths a sentient book called Vella. Once a young sorcerer-bookbinder, Vella was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been collecting information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen's world faces. Elsewhere, in a land ruled by the priests, Rielle the dyer's daughter has been taught that...
7) Magic spell
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Feeling unappreciated during the performance, a magician's assistant grabs the wand and performs some feats of her own.
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2013
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1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor, as well as a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Trace Jay's achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age four with his grandfather, to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. Featuring rare footage from his 1970s TV appearances, this is a remarkable...
10) The illusionist
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland. While performing in a village pub, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever.
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Tom Gould
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
261 pages
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"When Sophia discovers a book of spells in her convent's forbidden shelves, she rejects the vows she will soon be compelled to take, vowing instead to freelance as a magician. She takes the name of power Karamines, but the spells are not quite as advertised. Her first commission earns the enmity of the powerful Magician's Guild. Confrontations follow with a witch-burning priest; his African slave, a magician named Mutafassi with an agenda of his own,...
13) The magic rabbit
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
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1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
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When Bunny becomes separated from Ray, a magician who is his business partner and friend, he follows a crowd to a park where he has a lovely afternoon, and after the people leave and darkness falls, the lonely and frightened Bunny finds a glittering trail of hope.
14) The magician
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Criterion collection volume 537
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (34 p. : ill.).
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A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan. Bonus features include an interview with the director regarding the film and various essays.
16) Midnight magic
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In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
18) The zig zag girl
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
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328 pages ; 22 cm
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Investigating a murder committed in the style of a famous magic trick, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens reconnects with an illusionist friend from World War II to uncover links to their special ops service.
20) Breach
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Series
Cold War magic volume 1
Publisher
ACE
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm
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