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Magician $6.99 Maughams enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction The Magician is one of Somerset Maughams most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siècle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselvesuntil the sinister and repulsive Oliver Haddo appears.Maughams enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction The Magician is one of Somerset Maughams most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siècle Paris, Arthur and Margaret are engaged to be married. Everyone approves and everyone seems to be enjoying themselvesuntil the sinister and repulsive Oliver Haddo appears.

Magician The $18.09 Rated: NRSynopsis: The heart blood of a virgin. That’s what deranged medical student Oliver Haddo needs for his malevolent scheme to create life. He finds it in a lovely sculptor he hypnotizes and spirits off to an ancient sorcerer’s tower, preparing to rip her heart from her living body. Filmmaker Rex Ingram (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) cast his wife and frequent leading lady Alice Terry and Paul Wegener, who terrified movie audiences in The Golem, in this seminal horror-fantasy film based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Bizarre, nightmarish, enhanced by top production values and elegant European locations, The Magician is a must for any fan of the horror genre – or of imaginative moviemaking.

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The Magician: A Novel $2.49 Maugham wrote The Magician after meeting the famous magician and occultist Aleister Crowly in Paris. He caricatures Crowly as the protagonist Oliver Haddo, a magician who is attempting to create life. Crowly later accused Maugham of plagiarism and Maugham added the foreword A Fragment of Autobiography, which is included in this edition.

The Magician’s Boy $9.99 Only a child can find the way to bring Saint George back to the play. The Boy works for the Magician, and he wants more than anything to learn magic. But the Magician always says, “Not yet, Boy. Not till the time is right.” So the Boy has to be content with polishing the Magician’s wand, taking care of the rabbits the Magician pulls out of hats, and doing his favorite job: operating the puppets for the play Saint George and the Dragon, which the Magician always performs as part of his act. Until one day the Saint George puppet disappears, and the angry Magician hurls the Boy into the strange Land of Story to find Saint George. His quest is full of adventures with oddly familiar people, from the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe to the Giant at the top of Jack’s beanstalk. But the Boy’s last adventure is the most amazing of all — and changes his life forever.

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The Loneliest Magician $7.99 Forbidden to use the dragon magic that is their only defense against their enemies, the people of Commune place their hopes in the hands of untested young magician Yaakke, who can discover his true identity from the dragons. Original.

The Magician’s Dictionary $12.95 Unlike most occult teaches, E.E. Rehmus doesn’t mince words. He defines them. His Magician’s Dictionary picks up where all other occult reference works leave off — at the dawn of the apocalypse.

The Bone Magician $7.99 A boy’s quest to uncover the truth about how a “bone magician” raises the dead puts his own life in peril and embroils him in a dark mystery.

The Magician and the Mythtamer $1.49 Eva is a fledgling and restless magician looking for a purpose. Ethan is a mysterious mythtamer looking for a past. Together they will forge a bond of friendship that will be tested by when a rising dark sorceress plans to wage war on humanity, exposing magic to the known world. Using all their wit and power, the magician and mythtamer must find a way to stop the sorceress and save the world.

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Tiberius and the Magician $7.49 This is a wonderfully illustrated children's picturebook about Tiberius, a brave little mouse who has many adventures. In this story, Tiberius and friends meet Mr Muddle, the world's most famous magician, and have an hilarious and very magical adventure!

The Magician’s Wrestler $3.09 Roger Craig’s fourth novel but the first of his "Magician"s" series brings together a quartet of diverse entertainers who live together as a family. Readers will cheer their successes and sympathize with their failures . Eric Hightower is a magician and a lawyer who at one time or another drowns both careers in alcohol.

Tiberius And The Magician $5.59 This is a wonderfully illustrated children's picturebook about Tiberius, a brave little mouse who has many adventures. In this story, Tiberius and friends meet Mr Muddle, the world's most famous magician, and have an hilarious and very magical adventure!

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The Magician’s Apprentice $5.99 Set hundreds of years before the events of The Magicians’ Guild, The Magician’s Apprentice is the new novel set in the world of Trudi Canavan’s Black Magician Trilogy. In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer. Her mother would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn. When the advances of a visiting Sachakan mage get violent, Tessia unconsciously taps unknown reserves of magic to defend herself. Lord Dakon, the local magician, takes Tessia under his wing as an apprentice. The long hours of study and self-discipline also offer more opportunities than she had ever hoped for, and an exciting new world opens up to her. There are fine clothes and servants – and, to Tessia’s delight – regular trips to the great city of Imardin. But along with the excitement and privilege, Tessia is about to discover that her magical gifts bring with them a great deal of responsibility. For great danger looms on the horizon for Tessia and her world.

Magician (Paranormal) $125.85 A magician is a person skilled in the mysterious and hidden art of magic, the ability to attain objectives, acquire knowledge, or perform works of wonder using supernatural or nonrational means. Some modern magicians, such as Aleister Crowley and those who follow the traditions of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis, describe magic in rational terms, using definitions, postulates and theorems. Aleister Crowley said the magician of the future will use mathematical formulas. The latter kind of magician can also be referred to as an enchanter, sorcerer, wizard, mage, magus, or thaumaturgist. These overlapping terms may be distinguished by some traditions or some writers. When such distinctions are made, sorcerers are more often practitioners of evocations or black magic, and there may be variations on level and type of power associated with each name. Some names, distinctions, or aspects may have more of a negative connotation than others, depending on the setting and the context. Author: Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John/ Miller, Frederic P. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 212 Publication Date: 2010/04/24 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.48 inches

Pyramid of the Magician $86.03 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Pyramid of the Magician is a Mesoamerican step pyramid located in the ancient, PreColumbian city of Uxmal, Mexico. The structure is also referred to as the Pyramid of the Dwarf, Casa el Adivino, and the Pyramid of the Soothsayer. The pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable structure in Uxmal. The Pyramid of the Magician (El Adivino) is the central structure in the Maya ruin complex of Uxmal. The Pyramid of the Magician is also referred to as the Pyramid of the Soothsayer. Uxmal is located in the Puuc region of Mexico and was one of the largest cities on the Yucat n Peninsula. At its height, Uxmal was home to about 25,000 Maya. Like other Puuc sites, the city flourished from 6001000 AD, with the great building period taking place between 700 and 1000 AD. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: 2011/02/25 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.02 x 0.27 inches

Millroy the Magician $74.59 <p>Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina walks into the tent at the County Fair and finds her life transformed. Fixing her with his hypnotic gaze, Millroy the Magician performs astonishing miracles. When she is later magicked into his trailer and Millroy promises to train her as his assistant, Jilly feels safe for the first time in her short life.</p><p> </p><p> But Millroy is more than a mere stage show magician. A vegetarian and health fanatic, a possessor of healing and hypnotic powers, Millroy’s mission is to change the eating habits of an entire nation. And through Jilly he has found the strength to preach his evangelical message.</p><p> </p><p> With Millroy’s messianic fervour ever growing, Jilly begins to have doubts – but Millroy knows that without Jilly there will be no magic . . .</p>

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The Magician’s Assistant $9.29 Sabine– twenty years a magician’s assistant to her handsome charming husband– is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well. Named as heirs in his will they enter Sabine’s life and set her on an adventure of unraveling his secrets from sunny Los Angeles to the windswept plains of Nebraska that will work its own sort of magic on her.

The Accidental Magician $3.48 The world Fane lies on the outer reaches of explored space long forgotten by mankind. The planet’s peculiar electromagnetic fields inevitably destroy electronic devices but in compensation they enhance psychic abilities. In a last ditch effort to salvage something of his family’s honor his uncle gives Grantin a vital task which promptly turns him into the Accidental Magician.

The Magician Of Hoad $4.99 A hero, an aging magician, a farm boy, a noble daughter and a mad prince meet on the edge of a city of tents. So begins an intricate tale of a boy with a troublesome eye, who is capable of extraordinary things. Forced from home, twelve-year-old Heriot’s unwilling steps lead to Diamond, first city of the Hoadara, who conquered his people generations before. By tradition, King and Hero share power in an uneasy alliance . . . and the resolution of their struggle will ultimately bring pain, terror, love and loss to the five who met that dusty day. Forced to serve the King as his magician, and strangely bound to Dysart, the mad prince, Heriot is isolated within the walls of Diamond, until he finds Cayley, a wild, ambiguous rat-of-the-city. Two lonely souls forge an unlikely friendship in the shadows of the city both are forced to call home. But when children become adults, childish games become deadly serious and when incipient madness erupts in chillingly violence Heriot is forced to explore the very heart of his magic. In this superbly cerebral fantasy for older readers, Margaret Mahy’s masterwork will surprise and thrill with its exploration of darkness, and delight with her undisputed mastery of the language of the heart and soul.

Bone Magician $7.99 Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher making sure people are really dead before they’re buried. The body he’s supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man a bone magician and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fiancé can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can’t believe it will work but then the dead woman sits up and speaks. Pin is determined to discover how the magic works. He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer’s next victim. As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness Pin will learn more about the bone magician the girl Juno and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse. Once again F.E. Higgins delivers a story that is full of intrigue and suspense. A boy’s quest to uncover the truth about how a "bone magician" raises the dead puts his own life in peril and embroils him in a dark mystery.

The Magician’s Book $9.99 THE MAGICIAN’S BOOK is the story of one reader’s long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia . Enchanted by its fantastic world as a child, prominent critic Laura Miller returns to the series as an adult to uncover the source of these small books’ mysterious power by looking at their creator, Clive Staples Lewis. What she discovers is not the familiar, idealized image of the author, but a more interesting and ambiguous truth: Lewis’s tragic and troubled childhood, his unconventional love life, and his intense but ultimately doomed friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien. Finally reclaiming Narnia “for the rest of us,” Miller casts the Chronicles as a profoundly literary creation, and the portal to a life-long adventure in books, art, and the imagination.

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Round Table Magician $4.99 A puckish young lady challenges the magician sent to find stolen military secrets with her outrageous snooping techniques.

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The WonderWorking Magician the WonderWorking Magician $41.56 LELIUS. This excelleth, Good, in faith, is it thus to dim The clear light of my resentment, By attributing to me That which solely your offence is Who you are I have to know, Death to give to him who has left me Dead with jealousy here, by coming From this balcony. Author: Pedro Calderon de La Barca, Calderon de Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 214 Publication Date: 2010/05/23 Language: English Dimensions: 7.00 x 9.99 x 0.49 inches

At The House Of The Magician $3.99 Not many girls dream of becoming a maid, but for Lucy, anything that will get her out of her father’s clutches is a step in the right direction. When Lucy takes a position with the gentry of Queen Elizabeth, she’s surrounded by England’s wealthiest and most powerful figures – and Lucy’s got a weird feeling that her life just has to take a turn for the better. As a servant to Dr. Dee, court magician and consultant to the queen, Lucy is fascinated by the mysterious work of the doctor and his dark associate, Mr. Kelly. She can’t resist snooping around, especially if it means catching a glimpse of the queen. But when Lucy’s investigation leads her to a terrible discovery, she must get closer than ever to Her Grace in order to convey the secret and save the queen’s life – even if this means putting Lucy’s own life in grave danger.

The Magician’s Elephant $9.89 What if? Why not? Could it be? When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (an elephant! An elephant will lead him there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it’s true. With atmospheric illustrations by fine artist Yoko Tanaka, here is a dreamlike and captivating tale that could only be narrated by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. In this timeless fable, she evokes the largest of themes hope and belonging, desire and compassion with the lightness of a magician’s touch.

The Magician of Hoad $9.99 Heriot Tarbas was born with a gift. Visions wake him in the middle of the night, and others’ thoughts invade his head. Heriot’s mind already feels torn apart when the King of Hoad decides to tear him away from his family. Heriot quickly discovers that life in the royal court is much more difficult and complex than life on the farm. Being at the beck and call of a King who expects him to read friends’ and foes’ minds alike is no small challenge, but neither is being caught in a power struggle among three princes and an intimidating Hero of Hoad. As Heriot hones his skills and grows into the role of the Magician of Hoad, the number of people he can trust becomes smaller. Loneliness threatens to engulf him until a chance encounter brings a street urchin named Cayley into his life. Heriot feels inexplicably drawn to Cayley, someone he sees so much of himself in, yet at times feels like he does not understand at all. But even amidst the turmoil, Heriot is certain that his ever-developing power is the key to his destiny…if only he could figure out exactly what that destiny is supposed to be. Award-winning author Margaret Mahy conjures a faraway, majestic land where truth is an illusion, freedom is a battle, and pure magic may be the only saving grace.

The Magician King $12.99 Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon of 2009– The Magicians . The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new challenges. Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent’s house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them. The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an epic quest for the Harry Potter generation. It also introduces a powerful new voice, that of Julia, whose angry genius is thrilling. Once again Grossman proves that he is the modern heir to C.S. Lewis, and the cutting edge of literary fantasy.

Magician’s Accomplice $14 Praise for Michael Genelin: “The resourceful and prodigiously insightful Jana seems to have no flaws. But it isn’t her feats of superheroism that give the story its chilly sense of reality; it’s her casual acceptance of the almost universal corruption of everyone who lives in her world.”— The New York Times Book Review “Genelin effectively brings a relatively unknown country like modern Slovakia to life for American readers.”— Booklist “Genelin ratchets up the prose with smooth suspense, evocative locales, and distinctive characters who leap from the page.”— Publishers Weekly Devastated by her lover’s death in an explosion—on the same day an indigent student was shot and killed in sleepy Bratislava—Jana is transferred to The Hague, headquarters of the international police force Europol. On the flight she encounters a retired magician, the dead student’s uncle, who is determined to help Jana investigate his nephew’s death. And his help is indeed needed as Jana faces an international criminal conspiracy emanating from Europol itself. Michael Genelin is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA Law School. He has served as a consultant for the US State Department and USAID in Central Europe, Africa, Asia, and Haiti. He lives with his wife in Paris. From the Hardcover edition.

The Magician and the Fool $9.99 For hundreds of years, men have sought their hidden futures in the legendary images of the tarot—but what secrets of the past are harbored by the priestess, the magician, the hanged man…and the fool? The author of the explosive The Patron Saint of Plagues returns with a richly textured mystical mystery exploring the dark heart of one of our oldest traditions. Years ago, fallen scholar Jeremiah Rosemont left the bitter rivalries of academia behind and now lives a simple nomadic existence in South America, far from the arguments that once defined his life. But he can’t outrun his past…or the dangerous truth that lurks beneath his abandoned studies. Following an enigmatic summons to Rome, Rosemont finds himself at the center of a mystery that dates back to the fall of Troy, the pursuit of a mystical treasure many are willing to sacrifice fortunes and lives for: the earliest known tarot deck. As Rosemont delves deeper and deeper into the tarot’s unsettling secret origins, his own fate is inexorably intertwined with that of the Boy King, a homeless man with an unspeakable gift…and a mysterious past of his own. For these two men—and the demons, dupes, and power seekers drawn to them—the cards will reveal everything, even the shattering, unseen truths of human life itself.… From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Magician And The Fool $5.49 For hundreds of years, men have sought their hidden futures in the legendary images of the tarot but what secrets of the past are harbored by the priestess, the magician, the hanged manand the fool? The author of the explosive The Patron Saint of Plagues returns with a richly textured mystical mystery exploring the dark heart of one of our oldest traditions. Years ago, fallen scholar Jeremiah Rosemont left the bitter rivalries of academia behind and now lives a simple nomadic existence in South America, far from the arguments that once defined his life. But he can’t outrun his pastor the dangerous truth that lurks beneath his abandoned studies. Following an enigmatic summons to Rome, Rosemont finds himself at the center of a mystery that dates back to the fall of Troy, the pursuit of a mystical treasure many are willing to sacrifice fortunes and lives for: the earliest known tarot deck. As Rosemont delves deeper and deeper into the tarot’s unsettling secret origins, his own fate is inexorably intertwined with that of the Boy King, a homeless man with an unspeakable giftand a mysterious past of his own. For these two men and the demons, dupes, and power seekers drawn to them the cards will reveal everything, even the shattering, unseen truths of human life itself. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Magician of the Modern $22.99 The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson’s words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin immediately set about to introduce modern art to America and to transform this conservative insurance capital into a cultural mecca that would become the talk of the art world during the yeasty years between the two world wars. The first in the United States to mount a major Picasso retrospective, Austin was soon acquiring works by Dalí, Mondrian, Miró, Balthus, Max Ernst, and Alexander Calder. In the museum’s new theater (which he designed), he staged the premiere of the revolutionary Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts (with an all-black cast). At Lincoln Kirstein’s instigation, he brought Balanchine to America. And he embraced all the new art forms, making film, photography, architecture, and contemporary music part of the life of his museum. For his own family he built a Palladian villa (now a recently restored national historic landmark), filling it with the baroque and the Bauhaus and inviting all the locals in to see how it felt to be modern. Austin’s instinct for quality proved infallible. Whether acquiring a matchless Caravaggio or a startling Dalí, he balanced the old masters with the modern. Mounting provocative shows that linked the past to the present, he created dramatic installations–and he threw himself into everything, hanging fabrics, creating backdrops, stitching up costumes. He loved to teach, to paint, to act, to give lavish costume balls, and to dazzle audiences of all ages with his performances as a magician, the Great Osram. Brilliant at using his magician’s sleight of hand, he could manipulate his conservative trustees to get what he wanted–but only up to a point. One more purchase of an incomprehensible abstract canvas, one outrageous party too many, one more shocking theatrical role, eventually led to a crisis. Never one to be idle for long, Austin left Hartford and took on a new challenge–to make an artistic triumph of the pink-and-white palace in Sarasota, Florida, known as the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which housed the circus king’s moldering but magnificent collection. Here is the colorful life of Chick Austin, and as we relish his audacious career–the risks he took, the successes he enjoyed along with the inevitable setbacks–we understand what a far-reaching influence he had on the way Americans look at and think about art. Not only a brilliant portrait of an extraordinary man, this wonderfully American story gives us a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the art world as it was then–and in many ways still is today. From the Hardcover edition.

The Magician (Mobi Classics) $1.19 The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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