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Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"This is a book in which storylines twist, spiral and come together again in an ending as explosive as a poof of smoke from your chimney...or a top hat."—Oprah.com
Master of historical fiction Greer Macallister weaves the tale of a notorious female illusionist who stands accused of her husband's murder—and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices plastered on lampposts. It is simply there. Within these nocturnal black-and-white-striped tents awaits an utterly unique experience, a feast for the senses. Beyond the smoke and mirrors, however, a fierce competition is under way, a contest between two young illusionists.
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Series
Secrets of Droon. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The kids return to Droon to see their friend, Princess Keeah; they find Lord Sparr has taken a magic jewel from Keeah; together they must sneak into his volcano home to get it back.
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Series
Language
English
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In the first installment of a new series, a band of magicians who served together in World War II track a killer who's performing their deadly tricks. Brighton 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick - the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old war friend of Edgar's. They served together in a shadowy unit called the...
6) Bad hare day
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 41
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Tim Swanson steals the bag of secret tricks from his hero, Amaz-O, scary things begin happening.
7) Dark magic
Author
Series
Dark series volume 4
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there was one-Gregori, the Dark One-who held her in terrifying thrall. Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her slender spine. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori-the implacable hunter, the legendary healer, the most powerful of Carpathian males-whispered in Savannah's mind that he was...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Ivy Pochoda's spellbinding and cinematic storytelling seamlessly fuses timeless magic to modern-day passion. Haunting and beautiful, The Art of Disappearing is an imaginative and captivating love story destined to enchant readers for years to come.
How do you know if love is real or just an illusion?
When Mel Snow meets the talented magician Toby Warring in a dusty roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant performer whose hands can effortlessly...
Author
Language
English
Description
Kullervo son of Kalervo is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo" as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and who tries three times to kill him when still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and guarded by the...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request-he's seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection...
12) Mirror sight
Author
Series
Green Rider series volume 5
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Karigan Gĺadheon is a Green Riderá seasoned member of the elite messenger corps of King Zachary of Sacoridia. King Zachary sends Karigan and a contingent of Sacoridians beyond the edges of his nation, into the mysterious Blackveil Forest, which has been tainted with dark magic by a twisted immortal spirit named Mornhavon the Black. At the end of Blackveil, in a magical confrontation against Mornhavon, Karigan is jolted out of Blackveil Forest and...
13) Thief's magic
Author
Series
Millennium's rule novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Isles saga volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A couple of teens rescue from the sea an old woman who turns out to be a wizard from another world. The woman is joined by other wizards and they take the teens on an adventure in magic.
15) The illusionists
Author
Series
Illusionists volume 1
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Over the course of three decades of writing, bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and the devotion of millions of loyal readers. Her new novel, The Illusionists, set in London in 1870, is a thrilling step forward-a captivating tale of passion and fantasy set in the theater world. At the start of The Illusionists, we meet Eliza, a young, beautiful woman of limited means. Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her...
Author
Series
Belgariad volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Garion, a simple farm boy, was going to a strange tower to face a powerful evil magician. He was aided by master sorcerer Belgarth and his daughter, the arch-sorceress Polgara.
Author
Series
Magic Shop (Kate Egan) volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mike reluctantly bonds with good-girl neighbor Nora while learning fun skills at The White Rabbit magic shop, the owner of which believes Mike could become a great magician.
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Series
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, whose dreams of great deeds and heroic wars come all too shockingly true when his world is torn apart by a terrifying civil war - a war fueled by ancient hatreds, immortal enemies, and the dark powers of sorcery. In Osten Ard, a land once ruled by an elvishlike race known as the Sithi, the human High King is dying. And with his death, a long-dormant evil is unleashed on the...
19) Perfect crane
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Language
English
Description
A lonely Japanese magician gains friends through the paper crane that he brings to life but then must set free.