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• The Immortalists

  Benjamin, Chloe,

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  It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children, four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Do It With Mirrors

  a Miss Marple Mystery

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976,

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  Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

  Clarke, Susanna

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  In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England, that is until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity.

• Foucault's Pendulum

  Eco, Umberto

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  Bored with their work, three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with occult groups across the centuries. Becoming obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Zig Zag Girl

  a Magic Men Mystery

  Griffiths, Elly

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  Brighton, 1950. A girl is found cut into three sections, and Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, served with Edgar in a special ops…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paper Magician

  Holmberg, Charlie N., 1988-

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  Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Wizard of Earthsea

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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  Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world.

• The Magician's Nephew

  Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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  On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Magician's Lie

  Macallister, Greer

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  The country's most notorious female illusionist stands accused of her husband's murder, and she has only one night to convince a small-town policeman of her innocence.

• The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

  Mandanna, Sangu,

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  A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family, and a new love, changes the course of her life.

• Circe

  Miller, Madeline,

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  With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Acts of Violet

  Montimore, Margarita,

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  Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn’t been seen since, her hold on the public hasn’t wavered. While Violet sought out the spotlight, her sister Sasha, ever the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Circus

  Morgenstern, Erin

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  A fierce competition is underway, a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Magician's Assistant

  Patchett, Ann

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  When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine, who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years, learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Magician's Daughter

  Parry, H. G.,

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  Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, sea-salt air and fairy lore, Hy-Brasil is the only home Biddy has ever known. Washed up on its shore as a baby, Biddy lives a quiet life with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Prestige

  Priest, Christopher, 1943-

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  In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other. In the course of pursuing each other's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death From a Top Hat

  a Great Merlini Mystery

  Rawson, Clayton, 1906-1971

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  A clever magician tries to solve the case of a locked-room murder that only a talented escape artist could have committed.

• The Magician of Tiger Castle

  Sachar, Louis, 1954-

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  he beloved author of "Holes" presents his first adult novel, a modern fantasy classic of forbidden love, a crumbling kingdom, and the unexpected magic all around us.

• The Magician

  Tóibín, Colm, 1955-

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  The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mesmerist

  a Novel

  Woods, Caroline (Caroline Courtney),

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  Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all the rage, and women are dying under mysterious circumstances. But until a new guest lands at the Bethany…Read moreRead more of this annotation