Books with title The Red Magician

With the help of Jinx, the cat, and Jinx's sister, Minx, as well as many other well-known animals on the Bean Farm, Freddy pulls some wonderful tricks, not the least of which is outwitting the fraudulent magician who comes to entertain the unsuspecting inhabitants of the nearby town of Centerboro. REVIEW: Freddy is simply one of the greatest characters in children's literature! (School Library Journal)

Winner of the 1983 American Book Award, The Red Magician was an immediate classic.On the eve of World War II, a wandering magician comes to a small Hungarian village prophesying death and destruction. Eleven-year-old Kicsi believes Vörös, and attempts to aid him in protecting the village.But the local rabbi, who possesses magical powers, insists that the village is safe, and frustrates Vörös's attempts to transport them all to safety. Then the Nazis come and the world changes.Miraculously, Kicsi survives the horrors of the concentration camp and returns to her village to witness the final climactic battle between the rabbi and the Red Magician, the Old World and the New.The Red Magician is a notable work of Holocaust literature and a distinguished work of fiction, as well as a marvelously entertaining fantasy that is, in the end, wise and transcendent.

Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they’re buried. The body he’s supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man, a bone magician, and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fiancé can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can’t believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks.Pin is determined to discover how the magic works. He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer’s next victim.As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness, Pin will learn more about the bone magician, the girl Juno, and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse.Once again, F.E. Higgins delivers a story that is full of intrigue and suspense.

No one trusts a landless magician, but Trullic cannot find his true home, where his own magical powers work best. He knows it exists somewhere out in the desert. But how can he find it, when the land itself threatens to swallow him whole every times he steps across the boundary?Nadeem comes to her power early, a potent illusionist. Her aunts recognize her power, and recruit her for a secret cadre of assassins. Despite her training, Nadeem still questions the orders she receives, even those coming from the emperor himself."The Glass Magician" begins an exotic, epic-fantasy trilogy, and takes you down the dark paths these two must follow as they seek where they truly belong.Be sure to read the other novels in this deeply-immersive trilogy, "The Desert Heart" and "The Ghost Dog".

(6 Audio CDs/6.75 Hours). Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they’re buried. The body he’s supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man, a bone magician, and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fiancé can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can’t believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks. Pin is determined to discover how the magic works. He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer’s next victim. As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness, Pin will learn more about the bone magician, the girl Juno, and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse of it. Author of the critically acclaimed Black Book of Secrets, F.E. Higgins returns to the same dark, Dickensian world for this companion novel. Narrator James Daniel Wilson’s mesmerizing performance brilliantly conveys the macabre atmosphere so richly drawn by Higgins. “Higgins is a mastermind at creating a creepy world where children still maintain some sense of hope.”—VOYA “The cast of unusual characters and their interrelated stories carry readers along swiftly to an ending that begs for a sequel. Budding fans of Poe or Dickens will be entranced by this atmospheric novel.”—School Library Journal “… there is still no end of picaresque charms, creepy turns, and beguiling cast members…”—Booklist

With the help of Jinx, the cat, and Jinx's sister, Minx, as well as many other well-known animals on the Bean Farm, Freddy pulls some wonderful tricks, not the least of which is outwitting the fraudulent magician who comes to entertain the unsuspecting inhabitants of the nearby town of Centerboro. REVIEW: Freddy is simply one of the greatest characters in children's literature! (School Library Journal)

A collection of positive, though-provoking reminders, “You, the Magician” is a book that speaks to everyone, literally. The first line is, "Since you are reading this book, it is written for you.” Each page is vibrantly written and illustrated to remind you, the reader, that you already have all the tools needed to be the best you. We want to nudge people back toward themselves, to trust themselves. You are intentional, and you are a part of everything!

We've all made a wish we've regretted, but what if you've asked an archdemon like Belphegor to grant it?When Ella agrees to help fellow student Jonathan Trent with his audition into a mysterious magic circle, she never thought she'd fall in love with him. Nor did she ever conceived the three freakish judges named Hellmouth, Brimstone and Blackheart were actual demons, sent by Belphegor to recruit Jonathan.Seduced by the lure of riches, his own Vegas show and not having to care for his aged grandparents, Jonathan enters into Belphegor's service, and despite her own reservations Ella goes with him, in return for Belphegor making her disabled sister walk.Then when Jonathan starts to behave like the 'The Demon Magician' offstage and Ella learns the true price of his gruesome magic tricks, she knows she has to stop him, but what can she do? Jonathan, has the power of Hell on his side and all she has is Matthew, her mum's hunk of a gardener, who has no idea the demon world exists.