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Escape artists United States Biography Juvenile literature Gospel singers Houdini, Harry 1874-1926 Houdini, Harry 1874-1926 Juvenile literature Magicians Magicians United States Biography Magicians United States Biography Juvenile literature Rock music Tharpe, Rosetta 1915-1973 Women singersPoskitt, 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 HOUCorry, Lydia
Summary: A great magician never reveals their secrets, but Marvelous Magicians reveals the names of eight groundbreaking illusionists, both famous and lesser-known, who shaped modern magic. Through a magical blend of biography, history, and illustration, this book spotlights an array of magicians, including one of the first female magicians, Adelaide Herrmann; African American illusionist Richard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2020
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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 HOUSutherland, Tui
Summary: A biography of the famous magician who was also a movie star and a pioneer pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who HoudiniWeaver, 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 HOUKalush, William.
Summary: After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood. At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini developed a relationship with a man who would later run MI-5. For the next several years,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 793.8 KALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUDINI, HARRY KALLakin, Pat.
Summary: Simple text describes how Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, worked hard to become a great magician.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2002
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE LAKFleischman, 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 LALMacLeod, Elizabeth.
Summary: A biography of the world's most famous magician, Harry Houdini, from his poor childhood to extraordinary escape artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio HoudiniGoldstein, 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 GOLBudiansky, 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