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2024., Adult, Mariner Books Call No: NEW MYS Fic Ste Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ernest Cunningham.Summary Note: Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, "deviously good fun" (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe. My name's Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I'd hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection. THE MAGICIAN THE ASSISTANT THE EXECUTIVE THE HYPNOTIST THE IDENTICAL TWIN THE COUNSELLOR THE TECH My clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it's Christmas. If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it. After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn't it?
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2002., Juvenile, Starscape Call No: Fic Jor Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Eye of the World Volume: pt. 1.
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2011., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: SC DVD Fic Illusionist Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland. While performing in a village pub, he encounters Alice, an innocent young girl, who will change his life forever.
![The illusionist [DVD] (2011). Directed by Sylvain Chomet](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The illusionist [DVD] (2011). Directed by Sylvain Chomet")
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2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Call No: Fic Tho Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: London, 1885: A challenging place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling, if respectable, conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil Wix. With self-styled impresario Devil at the helm of the Palmyra Theatre, acrobats and illusionists astonish audiences with their death-defying stunts and the magic of mysterious new inventions--like electricity. Backstage, secret romances, box-office dramas, and power struggles inevitably simmer, and intermittently boil over.
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-- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell2004., Bloomsbury Call No: Fic Cla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2009., DAW Books Call No: Fic Rot Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much more, for the story it tells reveals the truth behind Kvothe's legend"--From publisher description.
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c2011., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Mor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A competition between two magicians becomes a star-crossed love story. The circus arrives at night, without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within nocturnal black and white striped tents awaits a unique experience, a feast for the senses, where one can get lost in a maze of clouds, meander through a lush garden made of ice, stand awestruck as a tattooed contortionist folds herself into a small glass box, and gaze in wonderment at an illusionist performing impossible feats of magic. Welcome to Le Cirque des Rêves. Beyond the smoke and mirrors, however, a fierce competition is underway--a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood to compete in "a game," in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will."--Random House.
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2008, c2007., Bantam Books Call No: Fic Arm Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Women of the otherworld Volume: 7Summary Note: Planning to retire from the celebrity spotlight, Jaime Vegas signs up to appear in a final reality TV special called "Raising Marilyn Monroe," but her arrival on the set is marked by the ghostly haunting of children trapped between two worlds.
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-- Now you see me two2016., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. Call No: NEW DVD Fic Now 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.
![Now you see me 2 [DVD] (2016). Directed by Jon M. Chu](/Library/images/~imageCT104328.JPG "Now you see me 2 [DVD] (2016). Directed by Jon M. Chu")
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[2006]., Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Prestige Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 others trade secrets.
![The prestige [DVD] (2006) Directed by Christopher Nolan](/Library/images/~imageCT73030.JPG "The prestige [DVD] (2006) Directed by Christopher Nolan")
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c2009., Adult, Mira Call No: Fic Sny Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Glass series Volume: 2Summary Note: "Student glass magician Opal Cowan's newfound ability to steal a magician's powers makes her too powerful. Ordered to house arrest by the Council, Opal dares defy them, traveling to the Moon Clan's lands in search of Ulrick, the man she thinks she loves. Thinks, because another man--now her prisoner--claims Ulrick's desire for blood magic has eclipsed his passion for her. In hostile territory, without proof or allies, Opal isn't sure whom to trust. She can't forget Kade, the handsome Stormdancer who doesn't want to let her get close. And now everyone else is after Opal's special powers for their own deadly gain..."--p.[4] of cover.
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c2009., Mira Call No: Fic Sny Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Glass series Volume: 1Summary Note: As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowan understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians.
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-- Vaclav and Lenac2011., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Tan Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Bonded by their shared status as children of Russian immigrants in spite of disparate family experiences, Vaclav and Lena team up as aspiring magicians when Lena's abusive domestic situation prompts her rescue by Vaclav's mother."--NoveList.
