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The Amulet: A Faedra Bennett Custodian Novel

May 20th, 2012 by The Magician | No Comments | Filed in Book Review


After several comments regarding the editing, I sent The Amulet to be overhauled by the editor I found for The Emerald Staff. This is the newly edited version.

To seventeen-year-old Faedra, faeries were nothing more than the figurines she collected and displayed in her curio cabinet. She was in for the surprise of her life.

Faedra had no idea that faeries controlled nature, and with a book no less. Nor did she know that her ancestors had protected an ancient fae amulet for thousan

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The Tempest (The Pelican Shakespeare)

May 17th, 2012 by The Magician | No Comments | Filed in Book Review


“I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation.” (Patrick Stewart

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DK Biography: Harry Houdini

May 14th, 2012 by The Magician | No Comments | Filed in Book Review


DK¹s acclaimed DK Biography series tackles two of history¹s most colorful figures in Harry Houdini and Albert Einstein. Perfect for book reports or summer reading, the DK Biography series brings a new clarity and narrative voice to history¹s most colorful figures.

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Angel – Free Preview: First 23 Chapters: A Maximum Ride Novel

May 11th, 2012 by The Magician | No Comments | Filed in Book Review


IS THIS THE END OF MAX AND FANG…

Maximum Ride and her friends have always had each other’s backs because they can’t trust anyone else. No. Matter. What. But now the flock is up against a threat unlike any they’ve ever faced. Just when they need each other the most, Fang is gone. He’s creating his own gang that will replace everyone-including Max.

AND THE BEGINNING OF MAX AND DYLAN?

Max is heartbroken over losing Fang, her soul mate. Her best friend. The one she though

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Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children (Become a Magician)

May 8th, 2012 by The Magician | Comments Off | Filed in Book Review


Thirty mind-boggling maneuvers — arranged in order of difficulty — include finding cards, mind-reading feats, causing a card to rise mysteriously from the deck, and more. Helpful diagrams and easy-to-follow instructions help young magicians through each step — from preparing and manipulating cards to developing a line of patter.

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Darkness Falls (Darkness Falls Series, Book 1)

May 5th, 2012 by The Magician | Comments Off | Filed in Book Review


When the disease spread through the world, people had no choice but to go into hiding. The Colony is hidden deep underground, far away from the vampires—humans that were transformed by the disease. The vampires are hideous, starving, and they will kill any human they come across.

Seventeen-year-old Kayla is a Bellator, a warrior that protects The Colony. In order to survive, there are three rules she must follow:
Rule #1—Never go out after dark.
Rule #2—Always carr

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The Mountain of Marvels: A Celtic Tale of Magic, Retold from The Mabinogion (Ancient Fantasy)

May 2nd, 2012 by The Magician | Comments Off | Filed in Book Review


 A thousand years ago, in the Celtic kingdoms of Wales, great lords gave great feasts for their fighting men and courtiers. In timbered halls, for days on end, heaps of meat and bread were washed down with gallons of beer and mead. And in between the meals, when bellies were stuffed and spirits high, the storyteller rose and spun his tales of times long past.  He told of lords, bold and generous. He told of ladies, grand and glorious. He told of friends, brave and faithful. But of all he told

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Chocolate Magic

April 29th, 2012 by The Magician | Comments Off | Filed in Book Review


Kat Roth and Mark Denham have plenty in common—they’re CEOs of rival Seattle-area candy companies, they’re both in feverish pursuit of number one status in the nation and they were both once married…to each other. Their brief venture into matrimony, an explosive mix of hot passion and all-out war, has made Kat and Mark wary of love and leery of the sparks between them.

Enter Fritz, Mark’s accident-prone young cousin who’s on a secret matchmaking mission. Wi

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Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark (The Kingdom Keepers)

April 26th, 2012 by The Magician | Comments Off | Filed in Book Review


In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Using a cutting-edge technology called DHI–which stands for both Disney Host Interactive and Daylight Hologram Imaging–Finn Whitman, an Orlando teen, and four other kids are transformed into hologram projections that guide guests through the park. Th

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Shadowland

April 23rd, 2012 by The Magician | Comments Off | Filed in Book Review


You have been there…
if you have ever been afraid.   Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician.   Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real.   Only one of them will make it through. First setting: an all-male prep school in Arizona, where two sensitive freshmen form a bond based on their

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