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As part of his street performance, a deception specialist who goes by the name The Raven picks his audience's pockets while they watch. It's harmless fun--until he decides to keep the wallet of a prominent politician, hoping for a few extra bucks. When he finds compromising photos of the councilman and his "personal assistants," The Raven hatches a plan to blackmail the man.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
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Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy's life-or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns, Mandy awakes in the present as the ninetten-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a magical ability to pass invisibly through time and space to escape. Alone in a strange world, she uses her...
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Boston, 1926. Harry Houdini's one-time apprentice, Jenny "Wren" Lockhart, is a bold eccentric as notorious for her inherited wealth and gentleman's dress as she is for her unsavory upbringing in the back halls of a vaudeville theater. Following Houdini's death, Wren is drawn into a web of mystery surrounding spiritualist Horace Stapleton, a man debunked by Houdini as a fraudulent mystic. Though he's known as one of her teacher's greatest critics,...
4) The pawn
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FBI agent Patrick Bowers, called to Asheville, North Carolina to investigate a serial killer who targets young women and leaves a chess piece behind, suspects that the murderer has ties to the current state governor.
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Young widow Hedda Krause checks into the Menger Hotel in 1915 with a trunk full of dresses, a case full of jewels, and enough cash to pay for a two-month stay, which she hopes will be long enough to meet, charm, and attach herself to a new, rich husband. Her plans are derailed when a ghostly apparition lures her into a long, dark hallway, and Hedda returns to her room to find her precious jewelry has been stolen. She falls immediately under a cloud...
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Dragon King trilogy volume 1-3
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[2007]
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In the hall of the Dragon King: With the help of the Most High God, young Quentin undertakes an important mission to rescue the Dragon King Eskevar from the traitorous Prince Jaspin and the evil necromancer Nimrood.
The warlords of Nin: As Nin the Destroyer and his armies threaten to conquer the peaceful land of Mensandor, young Quentin sets forth on a perilous journey to open the prophetic path for a coming deliverer--the Priest-King--who will wield...
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