Books with title The Last Magician

Another in the line of Alex Ferguson's award winning stories for children and young adults alike. Tyneside born and bred, Alex Ferguson has spent a lifetime drawing on his personal experiences of growing up in the harsh years following the great depression of the 1930s and has an uncanny knack of combining an engrossing narrative with his wry and wit-laden humour.MAGGIE MAGEE is a teenager who lives in a tower block in West Newcastle with the Aunt she calls Mam. The most extraordinary events begin to happen when, abandoned by her Aunt, her Grandfather turns up.Meanwhile, in rural Northumberland, the once wealthy and prestigious Carnell family, Richard, Emily and their witch-crone mother, Mrs Victoria Carnell, living in the ruins of Asheldore Hall, conspire to send someone back through time to change history so that what happened in 1899 will NOT happen and the family's power and prestige will be restored.Involved in this narrative and living in the old Dowerhouse of the Hall are the Temple family, Tom, a retired crafts teacher, his wife, Ellen, and their teenage children, Nikki and Stephen, innocents, who will be manipulated to serve the wicked purposes of the Carnells.Maggie Magee is initially unaware of power she possesses that will take her and Grandfather, Michael Magee, the failing Magus, to the edge of the fatal abyss.The threads of the conspiracy tighten and suffocate. Nothing is what it seems. Who can tell the daemons from the anghels?An intriguing and masterfully crafted tale of mystery, suspense and witchcraft with an ending that will bring a tear to the eye but joy to the heart. One of Alex Ferguson's most outstanding works so far.

Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she’s kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She’s discovered how to practice forms of magic other than her own—an ability long thought impossible.While all seems set for Ceony to complete her apprenticeship and pass her upcoming final magician’s exam, life quickly becomes complicated. To avoid favoritism, Emery sends her to another paper magician for testing, a Folder who despises Emery and cares even less for his apprentice. To make matters worse, a murderous criminal from Ceony’s past escapes imprisonment. Now she must track the power-hungry convict across England before he can take his revenge. With her life and loved ones hanging in the balance, Ceony must face a criminal who wields the one magic that she does not, and it may prove more powerful than all her skills combined.The whimsical and captivating follow-up to The Paper Magician and The Glass Magician, The Master Magician will enchant readers of all ages.

Since his father disappeared under a dark cloud of scandal, Pin Carpue has been alone in the world. His work for the local undertaker keeps him busy, but his life is bleak. Then Pin encounters the Bone Magician, a man who can raise corpses and make the dead speak. As Pin pieces together the secrets of Bone Magic, his own life becomes fraught with grave danger . . .

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.

The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

No one trusts a landless magician, but Trulliç 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".