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Series
Zig and Nola novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
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 United States 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 those who die on top-secret missions. Nola was a childhood friend of Zig's daughter...
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Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 3
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.--
1889. Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York on the opulent RMS Etruria. When young women begin to go missing, a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. As Audrey Rose and Thomas begin to piece together the gruesome investigation,...
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English
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Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
6) Other worlds
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The old-fashioned ghost story has never fallen out of style: Charles Dickens is still best remembered for A Christmas Carol, and Peter Straub, despite his many fine novels, found in the ghost story his most potent tale (Ghost Story, of course!). When Shirley Jackson wrote The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James wrote The Turn of the Screw, did they know they were creating their most-remembered works in the horror genre?
Author
Series
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel, aided by the famous magician Harry Houdini, plots to unmask a phony spirit advisor attempting to relieve the boy's great-aunt of her fortune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"En su gran regreso a la novela, Juan José Rodríguez nos cuenta cómo un joven aventurero conoce el mismo día al amor de su vida y a su peor enemigo. Cuando el joven héroe presencia el espectáculo de un grupo de magos decide abandonarlo todo con tal de seguir y enamorar a la bella Florissa: la misteriosa y bellísima atracción principal del grupo, que fue aprendiz del mismísimo Harry Houdini. Pero debe renunciar a todo, y arriesgar su vida,...
Author
Series
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nate, aided by his newly-discovered cousin and the famous magician Harry Houdini, catches the Fifth Avenue Slasher, solves a string of burglaries, and stops a notorious gang leader.
11) Spymasters
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
In 1814, redcoats burned the White House to the ground. In 1889, Harry Houdini discovered a trick that would save his life. In 1955, the U.S. launched the world's first nuclear submarine. And one family pulled the strings behind the scenes at each of these events: the Cahills--the most powerful family the world has ever known. Now the Cahills have opened their vault and dangerous secrets are pouring out. This book contains three of them--three stories...
12) Shots at sea
Author
Series
Houdini and Nate mystery volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
While traveling to England with his mother and great-aunt on the ocean liner Lusitania in 1911, thirteen-year-old Nate, delighted to find that the Houdinis are also on board, finds himself involved in another dangerous adventure as he and Houdini try to find the man responsible for attempting to assassinate another passenger--President Theodore Roosevelt.
13) Born of illusion
Author
Series
Born of illusion volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Anna Van Housen has a secret. A gifted illusionist, Anna assists her mother, the renowned medium Marguerite Van Housen, in her stage show and séances, easily navigating the underground world of magicians, mediums, and mentalists in 1920's New York. As the illegitimate daughter of Harry Houdini -- or so Marguerite claims -- sleight of hand illusions have never been a challenge for Anna. The real trick is keeping her own gifts secret from her opportunistic...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Harry Houdini's wife hires Irish immigrant private investigator Molly Murphy to uncover the truth behind the on-stage death of a magician's assistant in order to clear Houdini's name and find the person truly responsible for the death.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Intent on destroying America, by changing history, a mysterious criminal, Flynn, steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine. The only hope of stopping him lies with an unexpected team: Lucy, a history professor; Wyatt, a soldier; and Rufus, a scientist, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to ensure critical events remain unchanged.
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