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81) Clever lollipop
Author
Series
Lollipop volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lady Lollipop, the clever pet pig of Princess Penelope and her friend Johnny, joins them in their lessons with a magician, cares for the queen's garden, helps restore the king's appetite, and has a surprise present for Penelope's birthday.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This enchanting picture book introduces the beloved author to a new generation of readers, encouraging them to count from one to ten and back again as they watch the magic unfold before their very eyes.
83) Milo's hat trick
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Milo the Magnificent's magic act isn't so magnificent after all, until he meets a bear who teaches him the secret to the perfect hat trick"--
Author
Series
Unseen world volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city's magicians' power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard. In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney--a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is...
85) Sleight
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Left to care for his little sister after their parents' passing, a young street magician turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. He is forced to use his magic and a brilliant mind to save his sister when he gets in too deep and she is kidnapped.
86) Shadowghast
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When townspeople start disappearing after the arrival of a magician who knows about his past, Henry must separate truth from sleight-of-hand to solve the mystery of the Shadowghast lantern before they are all swallowed by darkness"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
By the year 1919, Harry Houdini was known throughout the world as a master magician and escape artist. Having conquered the stage, he set out to rule the screen, appearing in a series of thrillers built upon his almost supernatural powers. Culled from film archives and private collections, this film includes all of Houdini's surviving films as an actor, rare footage of actual handcuff and straitjacket escapes, and a wealth of historical information....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
By the year 1919, Harry Houdini was known throughout the world as a master magician and escape artist. Having conquered the stage, he set out to rule the screen, appearing in a series of thrillers built upon his almost supernatural powers. Culled from film archives and private collections, this film includes all of Houdini's surviving films as an actor, rare footage of actual handcuff and straitjacket escapes, and a wealth of historical information....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician's mind. In the most recent case, two occultists are discovered dead in locked rooms, one spread out on a pentagram, both appearing...
91) Queenslayer
Author
Series
Spellslinger volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Kellen Argos is an outlaw spellslinger with a bad reputation, a long list of enemies, and zero luck. When he accidentally smears blood on the Daroman flag, he's dragged before the queen to be executed for his act of treason. Face-to-face with the young monarch, Kellen is offered a chance to save himself. If he can defeat the queen at a game of cards, he'll walk free... if not, his life is forfeit. But what begins as a game reveals a conspiracy against...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Draws on newly uncovered archives to reveal Houdini's secret work as a spy for the United States and England, his post-war efforts to expose the fraudulent activities of spiritualist mediums, and the plot organized by Arthur Conan Doyle to have him murdered.
96) Soulbinder
Author
Series
Spellslinger novels volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A failed mage learns that just because he's not the chosen one it doesn't mean he can't be a hero in the fourth book of an exciting adventure fantasy series from Sebastien de Castell. For Kellen, the only way to survive is to hide. His curse is growing stronger, bringing dark and violent visions, and the bounty hunters dogging his heels get closer every day. Desperate, he searches for a mysterious order of monks rumored to have a cure. But salvation...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
I would like to make myself the heroine of this story and my character to be noble -- an innocent victim led astray. But alas, sir, I would be lying. In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets of eighteenth century London to her stepmother Queenie's Fairy House -- a place where decadent excess is a must. Trained by Queenie to become a courtesan, and by...
Author
Series
Unseen world volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After taking down the source of the corruption of the Unseen World, Sydney is left with almost no magical ability. Feeling estranged from herself, she is determined to find a way back to her status as one of the world's most dangerous magicians. Unfortunately, she needs to do this quickly: the House of Shadows, the hell on earth that shaped her into who she was, the place she sacrificed everything to destroy, is rebuilding itself."--
99) Djinn city
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official cause of her early demise: "Death by Indelbed." But When Dr. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural...
100) The magician's boy
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A boy who works for a magician meets familiar fairy tale characters when he is transported to the Land of Story in search of a missing puppet.
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