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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus. One of Publishers Weekly's top ten most anticipated books of 2022! Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (10 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus (which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person) as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences. But one balmy Mississippi night in 1954, Henry disappears in the company of three rowdy white teens and...
Author
Series
Kingkiller chronicle volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 39
Physical Desc
661 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In late 19th century London, artist's model Eliza puts her heart, and her life, on the line when she falls into the company of an enigmatic showman called Devil; Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered dwarf with a penchant for magic and illusion; and the even more mysterious Jasper Button.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the sequel to the "captivating"* Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale. *Wall Street Journal It's Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He's investigating the murder of two children, Annie...
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 4
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking--the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a field where there is so much left to learn, every Polymaker dreams of making the next big discovery. Even though she is only an apprentice, Alvie is an inventor at heart, and she is determined to make as many discoveries--in as short a time frame--as she can. Luckily for her,...
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bound to a magic she never wanted, a young apprentice falls deeper into its mysteries when she must use everything she's learned from her master in order to save him, and his heart.
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now well into her apprenticeship with magician Emery Thane, Ceony Twill is continuing to discover the joy of paper magic, and secretly hoping that the romance she foresaw blossoming between her and Emery becomes real. But another magician with a penchant for deadly scheming believes that Ceony is harboring a secret, and he vows to uncover it, no matter the cost.
Author
Series
The Paper Magician volume 3
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she's kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She's discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own--an ability long thought impossible. While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician's exam, life quickly becomes complicated. To avoid favoritism, Emery sends her to another paper magician for testing, a Folder who despises...
Author
Series
The Chaoswar saga volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 353 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A magical maelstrom forces Pug to question everything he thought he once knew--including the loyalties of his own son.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
16) Here We Are
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson, the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve, a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean, and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest thriller featuring Robin Lockwood 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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The first official publication of a previously unknown work follows the story of a hapless orphan who swears revenge on the dark magician responsible for the death of his father, in a volume complemented by author drafts, notes, and lecture essays.