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"The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity."
As every fan of the Harry Potter stories knows, the shelves of the Hogwarts Library are home to all sorts of fascinating books. There are three in particular you might have heard mentioned by certain Hogwarts students, and that you can add to your reading list too, including...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.
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WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The final installment of the award-winning Bridge of D'Arnath epic fantasy series by Carol Berg. Fear of the Lords' final curse is only one reason Gerick never intended to return to the land of Avonar. Now, he must investigate a refugee from the desert--the charismatic D'Sanya, D'Arnath's own daughter (so she claims), newly released from a thousand-year captivity. Only the deep-buried memories of Gerick's life as the Fourth Lord--memories that he...
6) Magician
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982
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English
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At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the Kingdom of the Isles, a humble orphan boy is apprenticed to a master magician--and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever.
7) Magic spell
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Feeling unappreciated during the performance, a magician's assistant grabs the wand and performs some feats of her own.
8) Sea Glass
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From New York Times bestselling author Maria V. Snyder Return to the realms of Sitia and Ixia, where a young glass magician becomes ensnared in a deadly power struggle that may cost her everything… Opal Cowan, glass magician-in-training, has discovered a terrifying and powerful new ability: she can steal the power of other magicians. And that makes her too dangerous to be set free. Ordered to house arrest by the Council, Opal defies them to search...
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Sourcebooks
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2015.
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English
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Smart, intricately plotted...a richly imagined thriller. PEOPLE magazine Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in The Magician's Lie, a debut novel in which 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 Amazing Arden is the most famous female illusionist of her day, renowned for her notorious trick of sawing a man in...
10) The soul weaver
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WordFire Press
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2022.
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English
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The Prince of Avonar is in desperate straits.
Betrayal devastates his plan to defeat the vile Lords of Zhev'Na without violence, and then a ruthless attack leaves his beloved wife near death.
As frustration and anger shake the fragile joining of the Prince's body and soul, war engulfs his magical realm.
Sixteen-year-old Gerick, half-crazed with nightmare visions, pursued by past horror and his father's wrath, flees beyond the boundaries of...
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Charlie Howard, a crime writer, thief, and amateur magician, is a bit jealous when he sees his agent, Victoria, being charmed at a Las Vegas roulette table by illusionist Josh Masters, so he decides to break into Master's hotel room and help himself to a safe full of casino chips, which makes him feel better until Masters disappears and he and Victoria are charged by the casino with cheating.
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WordFire Press
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2022.
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English
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A widowed noblewoman unites with an amnesiac sorcerer prince to fight evil magic in this epic fantasy adventure by the author of Son of Avonar.
The idyllic world of Avonar reels under the assaults of its ancient foes, two-thirds of its territory a wasteland, its failing magic embodied in the last weak, dissolute prince of its royal bloodline. But a brash mage has taken it upon himself to repair his liege lord's soul. Unfortunately, the Prince of...
13) Son of Avonar
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WordFire Press
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2022.
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English
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A violent fugitive who cannot speak, who has no past.
A disgraced noblewoman who would rather forget her past.
And a world of magic that has turned against both of them.
Seriana Marguerite, daughter of a warrior house, once believed that intelligence, determination, and love could avert the consequences of youthful rebellion.
She was wrong.
Violating the singular tenet of the Four Realms-that sorcery and all who practice it must be reported...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this deeply moving debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together. Prague, 1934: The fifteen-year-old rabbi's son Moshe Goldenhirsch marvels at the legendary circus magician known...
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Magic men mysteries volume 4
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English
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A magician plays detective when a show girl is murdered in an English resort town in this historical mystery by the Edgar Award-winning author.
Brighton, England, 1953. Over the holiday season, Max Mephisto and his daughter Ruby are headlining a variety show at the Brighton Hippodrome. Landing a gig at the city’s biggest theater is a major achievement, and only slightly marred by the less-than-savory supporting
...Brighton, England, 1953. Over the holiday season, Max Mephisto and his daughter Ruby are headlining a variety show at the Brighton Hippodrome. Landing a gig at the city’s biggest theater is a major achievement, and only slightly marred by the less-than-savory supporting
17) Hat tricks
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Peachtree
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A rabbit in a hat performs a magic show.
18) Poof! a bot!
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Illustrations and simple text relate how Zip, the unlucky alien magician, zaps a bot and tells it what to do, but the bot does not listen. Includes note to parents, introduction to the books vocabulary, and reading comprehension questions.
19) The immortalists
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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 -- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco. Dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas...
20) The zig zag girl
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Magic men mystery volume 1
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Brighton, 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. 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, is an old war friend of Edgar's. They served together in a shadowy unit called the Magic Men, a special ops troop that used stage tricks to confound the enemy. Max is on the traveling show circuit, touring seaside towns with ventriloquists,...
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