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1) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the annotated text of the darkly humorous play about Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who is exiled to a magical island with his daughter, Miranda; and includes an introduction, an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and a note on the text used.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse against The Four Horsemen, a super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. The Four Horsemen pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.
4) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Thunder must learn how to get along with the other animals living there. When the magician gets into a car accident, however, the pets must join forces against an evil nephew who tries to sell his house.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Full screen ed.].
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him in a dramatic challenge of wills, Eisenheim prepares...
7) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A mean magician turns all the African elephants into rocks. Diego, Alicia, and Baby Jaguar join Animal Rescuer Juma to find Erin the Elephant and a hidden magic drum that can break the spell and help all the animals in Africa. Help Diego and Alicia at Rescue Ranch when they meet Panchita, a prairie dog who needs to find a nice grassy prairie for her family. Jorge, the hawk needs to migrate, but when he loses the big hawks, he needs help from Diego....
10) Sleight
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen, [DVD].
Language
English
Description
Left to care for his little sister after their parents' passing, a young street magician turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. He is forced to use his magic and a brilliant mind to save his sister when he gets in too deep and she is kidnapped.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Edward lives in his family-run retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward leads an increasingly lonely existence until he meets Clarence, a retired magician and grieving widower who refuses to give in gracefully to old age.
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A magical tale about young Max, a shy, bullied boy. His life is forever changed when he receives an ancient magical book that opens a mystical door into an enchanted kingdom where an adventure filled with warriors, elves, queens and sorcerers awaits.
14) The illusionist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Shelby
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Christmas is coming, and notorious stray pup/escape artist Shelby is once again locked up in the dog pound. But when a spoiled rich kid tries to adopt him for all the wrong reasons, Shelby runs away and hides in the suburban basement of ten-year-old aspiring magician Jake Parker. Now with the frazzled local dogcatcher hot on their tail, can Jake, his siblings and their visiting grandpa, pull off the ultimate magic trick and rescue Shelby, making him...
16) Next
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
17) 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...
18) Smokin' aces
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent hunts for Las Vegas stand up comedian and illusionist Buddy 'Aces' Israel. Aces has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins. Now Aces will have to pull his greatest disappearing act before the assassins can get to him.
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...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1978
Language
English
Description
When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandolf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
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