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by Glen David Gold

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Gold's debut novel opens with real-life magician Charles Carter executing a particularly grisly trick, using President Warren G. Harding as a volunteer. Shortly afterwards, Harding dies mysteriously and Carter is forced to flee the country. Or does he? It's only the first of many misdirections in a magical performance by Gold. In the course of subsequent pages, Carter finds himself pursued by the most hapless of FBI agents; falls in love with a beautiful, outspoken blind woman; and confronts an old nemesis bent on destroying him. Throw in countless stunning (and historically accurate) illusions and historical figures like young inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, and you have old-fashioned entertainment executed with a decidedly modern sensibility.

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by Jim Steinmeyer, Teller

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Jim Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians... a cultural history of the efforts among legendary conjurers to make things materialize, levitate, and disappear. This book unveils the secrets (and life stories of the fascinating personalities) behind optical marvels such as floating ghosts interacting with live actors, disembodied heads, and vanishing ladies. The dramatic mix of science and history, with revealing diagrams, photographs and magicians' portraits by William Stout, provides a glimpse behind the curtain at the backstage story of magic.

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by Bruce Gordon, David Mumford

This REMARKABLE book takes a look at nearly every postcard issued at Disneyland, with photos of so many lost attractions and mood-setting scenes you'll see nowhere else.

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by Erik Larson

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by Christian McLaughlin

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by Christian McLaughlin

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by Elizabeth Gilbert

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by Andrew Sean Greer

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by Joel Glenn Brenner

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by Herman Wouk

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