Author: Paul Quarrington
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307364097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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After a slow climb out of the strip clubs and flesh pots of Europe, Jurgen and Rudolfo have hit the big time in Las Vegas, headlining a slick and well-oiled magic act. Rudolfo, a true misfit, is content orchestrating the spectacle, but Jurgen, stricken since childhood with the irrational desire to make magic, hungers for more. He finds it in a musty, mysterious collection of old manuscripts and magic cabinetry that once belonged to Houdini. And when he turns into the miracle-working saint of Las Vegas, chaos results. In a narrative that is whimsical, comic and melancholy by turns, Quarrington takes dead aim at the place in the human heart that hopes that doves can bloom from top hats and illusions can come true.
Author: G. E. Dabbs
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512769797
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Captive of Circumstances is an endeavor; focused and motivated by the NANOWRIMO Writing Contest (National Novel Writing Month is during the month of November every year). This work, focused on the contest during November of 2007, won that contest, completing the minimum 50,000 words written during that month. Many of the chapters focus and derive from life sketch surrounding family experiences during that month. It examples writing what you know and you know your own family and happenings around you. Two tiny human-like creatures, adventure from their small, hidden world under the board walk at Bald Rock at Cheaha State Park in Alabama, sneak into the world of the giant humans around them. But the venture results in captivity, and a movement far beyond personal abilities to travel back without seeking the assistance of the giant humans. They befriend a boy; spend seven months getting to know him, secretly seeking his familys help without their knowledge, and plot a path that will return them to Cheaha State Park before disaster happens to them. Will they return to the world of responsibilities they left behind? While stuck in Calera, Alabama for that time period, they explore the humans, their strange activities, such as capturing a swarm of honey bees, to going to an elementary school to see how humans educate themselves, and beyond. Its a story of faith, trust, endurance, and hope for a better future of two small creatures in love and enduring their mishaps together, and never giving up.
Author: Charles Annandale
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Author: Henry Hay
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486212388
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Written for the amateur magician, "Learn Magic" enables readers to learn and start performing 65 well-known tricks that professionals use, offering a well-rounded repertoire on which beginners can draw.
Author: Kage Baker
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 142991047X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Kage Baker's In the Garden of Iden is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF--The Company--now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal, and trains them to serve the Company, Dr. Zeus. One of these is Mendoza the botanist. She is sent to Elizabethan England to collect samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden. But while there, she meets Nicholas Harpole, with whom she falls in love. And that love sounds great bells of change that will echo down the centuries, and through the succeeding novels of The Company. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: H. Snow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595362524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 507
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The Keepersż survival now rests in the hands of a nameless warrior, whose grim secrets touch them more closely than they imagine.
Author: Charles Henry Hitchcock
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Julia Kalashnikova
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Julia Kalashnikova is a musician, journalist, owner of several former homeless cats. Music has surrounded her since childhood. Julia's favorite instruments have always been the violin and cello. The fairy tale presented to your attention is dedicated to the cello, but not ordinary, but magical. This story appeared under the wonderful compositions of the Finnish rock-band Apocalyptica, namely under the album "Shadowmaker". Friendship, music, love, devotion, magic, deceit, greed, good and evil, joy and sorrow — all these components are to be found in the pages of the book "Cold Cello".
Author: Paul Osborne
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0740771094
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Finally, detailed answers to all (well, almost all) of life's most puzzling complexities. A magician sketches authentic blueprints to decipher and decode life's unexplainable hexes, hoaxes, and human curiosities. If your ancestors invented the Ferris Wheel, chances are you too would be intrigued with life's mysterious inner-workings. Such is the case for author, inventor, and magician Paul Ferris Osborne. Osborne demystifies everything from driving in America, to how to find the perfect burger, to how to cheat at golf, or win at NASCAR by following his intricately drawn blueprint diagrams. Consider a behind-the-facades look at a number of life's more elusive offerings, such as: Where to find Jimmy Buffet's Lost Shaker of Salt. The secrets behind ventriloquism, sawing a woman in half, the Magic 8 Ball, the Ouija Board, and more!
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Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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