"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...

"Read how famous illusionists fooled their audiences. Then learn how to trick an audience of your own! Follow simple instructions and photos to float orbs, pull objects from thin air, and more. Check out all the books in the Super Simple Magic and Illusions series. Soon you'll be mystifying your friends with magic!"--

"Read how famous illusionists fooled their audiences. Then learn how to trick an audience of your own! Follow simple instructions and photos to read minds, predict choices, and more. Check out all the books in the Super Simple Magic and Illusions series. Soon you'll be mystifying your friends with magic!"--

Having escaped to hide in Elizabethan London, Matthew and Diana must find a powerful witch teacher to help Diana control her magic and search for the elusive Book of Life. Enemies are everywhere, the threat to witches is growing, and Diana and Matthew's romance faces a barrage of new threats, from within as much as without.

"Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields."--