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Clarence M. Burton memorial lecture First names Great discoveries How to be The Atlas 3Poskitt, Kjartan
Summary: Shares the life story of the famous escape artist, including his immigrant origins, how he began his career doing card tricks for extra cash, and how he became the world's most well-known magician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOUEdmonds, I. G.
Summary: Traces the career of the magician known as the Great Lafayette and his partner, an extraordinary dog named Beauty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lodestar Books/Dutton 1982
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB NEUBERGER EDMKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A picture book biography highlighting the life and accomplishments of magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOUTurnbull, Stephanie.
Summary: This entertaining title helps young readers develop presentation skills and confidence as it describes skills needed for basic magic tricks. Step-by-step, illustrated instructions support activity-based learning, while "What's Next?" sidebars encourage creativity and artistic expression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 793 TURWeaver, Janice.
Summary: Explores the life of Harry Houdini including his childhood, marriage, and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOULund, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Historical Society of Michigan 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 793.8 LUNMarlowe, Christopher
Contents: Christopher Marlowe -- The English Faust book and Doctor Faustus -- Religion and magic -- Appendix one: the date of the English Faust book and of Doctor Faustus -- Appendix two: A-text and B-text -- Suggestions for further reading and other editions of the texts -- A note on the texts -- Doctor Faustus (the A-text) -- The English Faust book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hackett Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 MARCambron, Kristy
Summary: "Harry Houdni's one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them . . . or silence her before she can reveal them on her own"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMFleischman, Sid
Summary: A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of the famous magician, Harry Houdini, comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HOUDINI FLELalicki, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HOUDINI LALBlake, Olivie
Summary: "An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable. Old alliances fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their astronomical abilities, while elsewhere, an unlikely pair from the Society partner to influence politics on a global stage....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BLACopperfield, David
Summary: "An illustrated, illuminating history of magic from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its most audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form's most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield's secret museum"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.809 COPGoldstein, Rebecca
Summary: "An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 510 GOLLivio, Mario
Summary: This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 510 LivBudiansky, Stephen
Summary: "The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GODEL, KURT BUDBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THAChown, Marcus
Summary: "Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least understood. It is a "force" that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017