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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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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
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred"--
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.
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
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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 Magic Men, a special ops troop that used stage tricks to confound the enemy. Max is on the traveling show circuit, touring seaside towns with ventriloquists,...
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
Threads of power volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
648 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As two royals fight to keep their crowns amidst old friends and new enemies in fantastical realms connected by a single city--London, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could bring them together--or unravel it all.
10) Innate magic
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cloth mage Paul Gallagher is desperately trying to make a name for himself in a reimagined postwar London...Paul is hiding a secret, however: he possesses a powerful--and illegal--innate magic that could help him achieve his wildest dreams. Unfortunately, Paul confides in the wrong person--his latest crush, Captain Hector Hollister--and is drawn into a sinister plot that risks reigniting the machinery of war...The only way to set things right may...
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
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A popular magic act for forty years, Dane and Mandy are separated when a car wreck supposedly takes Mandy's life, but instead she is transformed into her nineteen-year-old self in the present, and when the pair reunite, she still mesmerizes Dane--now forty years her elder.
Author
Series
Atlas volume 2
Publisher
A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six-guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed...
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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After her husband Harry dies, Bess Houdini starts noticing everywhere the code he promised he'd send her from the great beyond and retraces their remarkable romance, from Coney Island, to Budapest, to Hollywood, in an effort to decipher the urgent message from her husband.
Author
Series
Glass Library volume 1
Publisher
C. J. Archer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Librarian Sylvia Ashe knows nothing about her past, having grown up without a father and a mother who refused to discuss him. When she stumbles upon a diary that suggests she's descended from magicians, she's skeptical. After all, magicians are special, and she's just an ordinary girl who loves books. She seeks the truth from a member of the most prominent family of magicians, but she quickly learns that finding the truth won't be easy, especially...
17) Acts of violet
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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. Nearly a 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...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. Ultimately, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay....
19) The immortalists
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Language
English
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The instant New York Times bestseller and celebrated family love story heralded as perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt (People). If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak...
20) The circus train
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Language
English
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"When all is lost, how do you find the courage to keep moving forward? 1938. Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo. Brilliant and curious, Lena--who uses a wheelchair after a childhood bout with polio--yearns for the real-world magic of science and medicine, her mind stronger than the limitations placed on her by society. Then her unconventional life...