Product Description: Summon your inner Houdini and learn simple magic tricks that will wow your family and friends!How did he do that? Have you ever racked your brains trying to figure out how that birthday party magician pulled a dove out of his sleeve? Or spent sleepless nights wondering just how he made that coin disappear? Well, what if there were a book that shared a magician’s secrets with you and showed you how to do magic, too?Eleven-year-old magician Kristen and her magician dad, Ken, reveal secret magic techniques with step-by-step photographs and demonstrate how you can perform tricks that look impossible but are, in fact, very simple to master! You’ll also learn one of the most important secrets about becoming a magician—how to use your confidence, personality, and presentation skills to enchant and amaze your friends and family...read more

Product Description: Magic Show guides students as they conceive and set up their own magic show for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension...read more

Product Description: Wow your friends and family with 101 simple magic tricks, gag ideas, hilarious comics, and funny jokes that will entertain readers of all ages! Every kid is amazed by magic tricks. This book offers the perfect combination of tricks, jokes, and comics that not only entertains the reader, but also acts as a fun guide to learning new tricks and jokes that will amaze and entertain friends and family members...read more

It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme, Julius' widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but aimlessly lost in the routine of her perfect home. Felix, Esme's old lover, who left her when Julius died and who is still plagued by guilt for his action. And Dan, an outsider. Throughout a disastrous - and revelatory - weekend in Sussex, the influence of the dead Julius slowly emerges.

Narrative is a central concept necessary to any student of literature seeking to develop a critical vocabulary. In Narrative, John Coyle provides a lucid overview of the ideas which are basic to this concept. Groundbreaking advances are described in this focussed and wide-ranging theoretical study, in which all of the key concepts of narrative are closely examined. This explanatory guide will prove essential for introductory students, as it illustrates how narrative works and demystifies technical terms. While poetry is also encompassed, the emphasis is placed upon prose narrative, covering a wide range of genres in addition to fiction, including biography, autobiography, and histriography. Narrative addresses contemporary literary theory, including postmodernism, and provides the reader with a solid basis of understanding which will prove invaluable for further study.

Product Description: Step-by-step instructions and photographs guide students through easy magic tricks. Readers will learn how to impress audiences with tricks that require minimal, inexpensive props such as a deck of cards or a single coin. Helpful tips ensure the success of even the youngest budding magicians...read more

Product Description: Packed with easy-to-learn illusions, The Great Big Book of Magic Tricks explains how to perform amazing feats with clear, step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations. "Top Tip!" boxes and profiles of famous magicians and their most impressive tricks will captivate reluctant readers, encouraging aspiring magicians to learn and perform card tricks, coin and rope tricks, sleight of hand, and mind tricks to impress friends and grow confidence...read more

Product Description: Start with Card Tricks and keep people guessing with the Tricks with Everyday Objects, such as the fantastic banana split trick and the coin under a handkerchief illusion. Move on to the head-scratching Puzzlers, like the rattling matchbox or the chicken, fox, and corn trick—these guessing games will leave your friends and family amazed and bewildered...read more

Product Description: Have you ever seen an apple bounce without being bruised? How about a thimble hop from one finger to another all on its own? Learn the secrets of these and many more magic tricks as they are explained with fully-illustrated, step-by-step instructions.

Product Description: For junior magicians, this magic instruction manual will quickly have them sawing (paper) people in half, turning oranges into lemons, and bending spoons with their minds. Laid out in simple and fully-illustrated steps, these tricks will be just the beginning of a magical career...read more

Product Description: Describes the types of skills needed to do simple magic tricks, and how to train and practice to become a famous magician. Includes step-by-step instructions for preparing props and tips for making the tricks and illusions work the best...read more

Product Description: This book introduces the beginner magician to a variety of tricks using pen and paper. Step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations teach the reader how to learn and perform amazing tricks.

Keep your possessions close! This book teaches the magically inclined how to make thingsfrom coins to a thimble to a wristwatch and beyonddisappear. The tricks are broken into simple steps accompanied by colorful illustrations. Your junior magicians' dexterity and self-confidence will improve as they practice these sleights of hand.

Product Description: This book introduces the beginner magician to tricks he or she can do at the dinner table. Step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations encourage readers to develop a love for magic.

Product Description: Master a number of magic tricks with this manual of the mysterious! The illusionsmade accessible with step-by-step instructions and amusing illustrationswill have young magicians defying the laws of physics, reading minds, and much more in no time.

Product Description: Unlock the power of young readers' brains with this mystifying book of tricks. Magicians will learn how to read others minds, develop X-ray vision, and even will hearts to stop as tricks are explained step by step with accompanying illustrations...read more

Product Description: The real trick in this book is that it will improve your young magicians' arithmetic skills while teaching them fun feats of magic. The simple, step-by-step instructions are fully illustrated and are sure to captivate your reluctant readers...read more

Product Description: This book introduces the beginner magician to simple illusions using the mind and body. The illustrations and step-by-step instructions teach readers how to perform numerous amazing tricks.

Product Description: Teaches readers how to do several easy magic tricks using string, including how to cut and restore a string and how to escape a knot tying their thumbs together.