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Practical magic novels volume 2
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"The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three hundred years, but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger - the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and...
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The Book of Magic is a treasure trove of magical illusions to be performed with playing cards, rope, rings handkerchiefs, banknotes and coins. Written by Bruce Smith, a professional magician and member of the Magic Circle, it tells you how to do a wealth of baffling and entertaining tricks, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and illustrations. The Book of Magic offers and excellent grounding in the basics of magic, and offers you the opportunity...
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No one in the village is as brave as Tashi ... only he could scare the ghost monsters out of the forest, and only someone as bold as Tashi would go all the way along the dark underground passage to the Mountain of White Tigers. Tashi always has a cunning plan whether he is facing a ferocious war lord, outwitting a sly genie, or confronting Bang, the trouble-making bully. Sometimes there's no time to think-Tashi just has to act fast. One of four themed...
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2018.
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First edition.
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"An anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy--featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many more! Hot on the heels of award-winning editor Gardner Dozois's (Rogues, Old Venus) acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf...and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda...and a Wicked Witch of...
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The Book Without Words appears to be a volume of blank parchment pages. But for a green-eyed reader filled with great desire, it may reveal the forgotten magical arts of making gold and achieving immortality. For generations, its magic has been protected from those who would exploit it. But on a terrible day of death and destruction, the Book Without Words falls into the hands of a desperate boy.
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Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily life from the earliest Arthurian legends to Aleister Crowley to the novels of Tolkien and Philip Pullman, and from the Druids to Freemasonry and beyond....
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Mark got fired after working for about ten years in a big company. Moving out, once more would be very difficult for him, but this is not the only difficulty he would have to face, because when arriving at the suburbs, he will have a horrid nightmare that will just welcome the true horror he will experience there. And, an old lady, sitting in a front porch, will be the door to a huge portal that will lead him to doubt about immortality and people's...
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This early manual of tricks is an absorbing work which will prove of much interest to the enthusiast or historian of magic. Intended as a complete how-to guide to the uninitiated, The First Book of Magic give a comprehensive and informative look at the subject. Contents Include: Tricks with Money, Tricks with Handkerchiefs, Tricks with String, Tricks with Cards, Tricks with Balls, Famous Magicians, Mind-Reading Tricks, Tricks with Numbers, Spirit...
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In Claire Fayers's darkly mysterious middle-grade fantasy, The Book of Unwyse Magic, a girl finds herself at the center of the struggle for power between the human world and the fairy world.
Magical mirrors,
A corrupt overlord,
A struggle for power ...
It's up to twelve-year-old Ava to solve the mystery-and save the town!
Years before, Ava's family left the town of Wyse in a shroud of mystery-some scandal to do with magical mirrors. Now returning...
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Noted occult historian A.E. Waite created this meticulously researched survey in order to unite and interpret the scattered and often-inaccessible details of magical traditions. Part I contains essential passages from prominent magical texts dating from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries; Part II analyzes these texts from a modern perspective. A century after its debut, Waite's work remains among the best sources of information on...
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Books of Magic volume 1
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English
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Continuing from celebrated author Neil Gaiman's iconic graphic novel, the complete chronicles of Tim Hunter are finally brought together in a definitive new collection. Once, Timothy Hunter was just an ordinary 13-year-old boy living in suburban London. Then four legendary sorcerers took him on a journey beyond time and space, and his life changed forever. Traveling through realms long consigned to myth and legend, he also discovered an unsettling...
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Synopsis This is a beautiful book of full of magic. Here are different kinds of poems in a different themes. The title of the book tries to tell that there is a magic. When you we will arrange words and letters and create a beautiful poems. That can rise ethos, pathos and logos of the readers. Readers can be physically involved and participate in a imaginative world through poems. Poems are not the poems but it is a game of words. Magic of words....
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The definitive guide to candle magic, written by a leading authority with over 30 years of experience making magical candles and creating candle spells.
Author Jacki Smith, founder of Coventry Creations (currently among the largest and most successful magical supply companies), shares her magical secrets with readers, enabling them to empower themselves through successful spell casting. Her book explains the nature of magic spells and provides examples...
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In The Treadwell's Book of Plant Magic, author Christina Oakley Harrington-founder of the renowned Treadwell's Books in London-focuses exclusively on the magical powers attributed to the plants. She has sifted through hundreds of traditional sources to create a rare compendium of the "old ways" in which plants have been used to achieve love, win competitions, become invisible, gain good luck, achieve success, receive protection, and more.
The book...
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Fifteenth-century document provides instructions -- for the period's professional magicians and sorcerers -- for evoking good and evil spirits, divining rare metals and treasures, warding off evil magic, healing illnesses, rendering oneself invisible, reading minds, working black magic, and more. An entertaining medieval course in legerdemain -- one of the most important books in the history of occultism.
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Have some extra change rattling around in your pocket? Need a new party trick? Coin Magic: The Complete Book of Coin Tricks is your go-to reference for astonishing any audience-friends, family, people on the street, or even strangers sitting in a theater seat seeing your first public performance. Everyone will be amazed by your ability to captivate and charm.
Originally published in the 1930s, this highly acclaimed coin magic book from master of...
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Escaping death by fire, a young witch begins an unexpected journey. Protected by a handsome stranger, forced to disguise herself as a boy, she finds herself working as a player in a traveling acting troupe. Will her growing powers be discovered? Will her identity remain hidden? Will the stranger return her love?
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The unlikely wizard John B. Stewart and his beloved Q are in Italy. Venice is very old, rich in history and tradition. It's also home to one of the world's great celebrations - Carnevale. Here, more than ever, John B. and Elizabeth learn that things are not always as they seem. Behind the music and partying, deceit and danger lurk in the shadows. Some of it is up close and personal, but some of it is ancient and may just unleash dark forces that threaten...
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21st-Century Maine still has a lot of old world charm. Bu,t some echoes of the past are anything but benign. Monsters on land and sea. A band of unlikely but ruthless pirates. A storm at sea, and the real prospect of a watery grave.
In their search for family history and family treasure, John B. Stewart and his beloved Elizabeth, together with old friends and new, find much more than they'd expected, perhaps even more than the wizard's strange power...
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