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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Harry Houdini. Say his name and a number of things come to mind. Escapes. Illusions. Magic. Chains. Safes. Live burials. Close to a century after his death, nearly every person in America knows his name from a young age, capturing their imaginations with his death-defying stunts and daring acts. He inspired countless people, from all walks of life, to find something magical within themselves. This is a book about a man and his extraordinary life,...
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of the famous magician, Harry Houdini, comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats, complete with index, photos, and author's notes.
Author
Series
Zig and Nola novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of...
Author
Series
Young Houdini volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1886, a secret organization dedicated to the overthrow of evil sends young escape artist Harry Houdini and his friends to New Orleans to help a local community of fishermen accused of using voodoo magic to put the city's mayor in a zombified coma.
11) Houdini
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
2-disc extended edition.
Language
English
Description
Before David Blaine and David Copperfield, there was one man whose name was synonymous with being the master of illusion and escape - Harry Houdini. It follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A captivating debut novel, meticulously researched and beautifully imagined, about the passionate marriage of Harry and Bess Houdini-a love story that defied death itself. Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to speak to his beloved wife Bess from beyond the grave using a coded message known only to the two of them. When a widowed Bess begins seeing this code in seemingly impossible places, it becomes clear that Harry...
Author
Series
Young Houdini volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Harry Houdini's efforts to perfect his magic tricks are put on hold when his mentor, Herbie, disappears, prodding Harry and his two best friends, Arthur and Billie, to embark on a dangerous investigation that pushes their skill and their friendship to the limits.
16) Born of illusion
Author
Series
Born of illusion volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1920s New York City, this is the story of budding magician Anna Van Housen, who has spent her whole life playing sidekick to her faux-medium mother--and trying to hide the fact the she actually possesses the very abilities her mother fakes"--
Author
Series
Time spies volume 4
Publisher
Mirrorstone
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Alex and his sisters travel back in time to the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where they work with young Harry Houdini to track down a thief.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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