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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Raven: A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help. The Comedy of Terrors: An undertaker starts to kill people in order to get new clients.
Tomb of Ligeia: A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride. The Last Man on Earth: When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
The Return of the Fly: Fifteen...
122) A reasonable doubt
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request-he's seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection...
123) External forces
Author
Series
Marrowbone spells volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It's not a seamless path. Not since the Virtuis Party came to power. The far-right faction is using criminals to create a protective barrier around England. The enchanted uniforms the prisoners wear may beget a demand for mages, but using luckless convicts as tools for warmongering reactionaries isn't Paul's dream for cloth magic....
124) Blackblood: acolyte
Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket, an imprint of Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Centuries ago, magic mysteriously appeared in the kingdom of Allia. At first, the mages who could wield it became servants to the king, using their newfound powers for the betterment of society. However, an evil group of mages called Blackbloods went rogue, siphoning magic from their peers before they were stopped. But after that, the king imprisoned all mages, Blackblood or not. Years later, mage siblings Kanna and Kita are in hiding, careful to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From his impoverished childhood to his feat of becoming one of the most successful entertainers of all time, this fascinating biography presents a memorable portrait of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini. Guidelines for 21 fun magic tricks are also provided, including how to stick a needle into a balloon without popping it, how to step through a note card, and how to make a coin vanish. Illustrating the science and logic behind many of Houdini's...
126) Come see the fair
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old orphan Eva Root travels the country pretending to channel spirits at séances. Her audiences swear their loved ones have spoken to them from beyond the grave. This, of course, is impossible. But one day, Eva experiences another impossibility: she hears a voice in her head telling her to come to the World's Fair in Chicago. There, she meets a mysterious magician who needs her help to bring magic to life. But as their work progresses,...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Presents William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and includes excerpts from its sources, eighteen works of criticism by writers ranging from John Dryden to Barbara Fuchs, and seventeen works based on the play by such authors as Percy Shelley and Ted Hughes.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A secluded school for magicians faces danger from a fantastical flying creature outside and sinister forces inside. While visiting Velma's sister Madelyn, who's enrolled at the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, the gang gets lots more than rabbit emerging from a hat. A greedy ice-cream mogul wants to close the place, a screaming banshee gives everyone the creeps and a mythological half-dragon, half-lion animal known as a gryphon seems all to real. Now...
Publisher
Sesame Street Workshop
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Includes two full Sesame Street episodes. In the first episode, Max the Magician (Will Arnett) comes to Sesame Street, and Elmo and his friends learn about addition and subtraction through magic tricks. In the second episode, 'Hat Day,' Elmo and Zoe have a contest to see who can wear the most hats, learning to count, estimate and count by fives. Also includes bonus, Elmo's World Hats.
Publisher
Midway
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
"Two powerful sorcerers, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, have joined forces to achieve the supreme goal: immortality. Will earth survive their deadly alliance? Experience the lethal intensity of an all-new Mortal Kombat fighting system. Unlease your warrior's three unique fighting styles including hand-to-hand and deadly-weapon combat. Control hardcore, extremely realistic fighting and brutal new fatalities. Encounter more than 20 new and classic warriors,...
132) Codex born
Author
Series
Magic ex Libris volume 2
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Five hundred years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Gutenberg's power brought him many enemies, and some of those enemies have waited centuries for revenge. Revenge which begins with the brutal slaughter of a wendigo in the northern Michigan town of Tamarack, a long-established werewolf territory. Libriomancer Isaac Vainio is part of Die Zwelf Portenære,...
133) See Bip grow!
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text relate how Zip, the unlucky alien magician, zaps Bip so they can play some ball, but things do not go according to plan when Bip grows so big that he flies away like a giant balloon. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.
134) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each other's...
Author
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers' biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery--a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life Lord Sashvindu Samarasinghe; England's Sorcerer Royal;...
Author
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The titular Hellblazer, Constantine is a working-class occult detective and con man stationed in London. He is known for his endless cynicism, deadpan snarking, ruthless cunning and constant chain-smoking. Constantine discovers he's cursed with empathy for his fellow man as the multi-layered tale races forward. Seeking the origin of the Empathy curse, Constantine and Chris roll into Glasgow in search of Steve Evans, a "massively powerful magician"...
Publisher
[Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
Author
Series
Witcher comics volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Multi-Eisner award-winning writer Paul Tobin pens a fantasy epic of the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, a witcher--one of the few remaining monster hunters from the critically acclaimed video game fantasy The Witcher by CD Projekt Red!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they're chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. The only hitch--the Brighton police are already on the case, putting Emma in direct competition with her husband, police superintendent Edgar Stephens. Soon...
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