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Misdirection

Author : Ning Cai
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814785091
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Misdirection written by Ning Cai and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in an exciting new YA mystery trilogy about a teenage savant on the trail of her family's killer, from the multi-talented Ning Cai, international magic celebrity and author. When parkour champion Maxine Schooling wakes from a three-year coma, she has no memory of how her parents and little brother were killed the night she was attacked. Using her new-found photographic memory, she covertly helps her hacker BFF with the police investigation of a savage serial killer on the loose. In her race to track down the Singapore Spectre, Max finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy involving stage illusions, a secret exposé, and a controversial megachurch headed by a powerful man. For over a decade, Ning Cai was known as a multi-award-winning stage illusionist and escape artist. After a brief period of retirement, she returned in 2017 as the mentalist Ning: Mind Magic Mistress. Her memoir Who is Magic Babe Ning? was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize.

Magic by Misdirection

Author : Dariel Fitzkee
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic by Misdirection written by Dariel Fitzkee and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Books of Wonder

Author : Tommy Wonder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780945296171
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book The Books of Wonder written by Tommy Wonder and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Election Misdirection

Author : C. T. Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950826087
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Election Misdirection written by C. T. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for prime time in Gopherville! The political scene at Cherry Avenue Middle School heats up when some of your favorite (and least favorite) Gophers throw their hats in the ring to become the next eighth-grade president. It's a classic battle of good vs. evil with a whole lot of mayhem thrown in for good measure. And great laughs, of course. When Austin's arch nemesis, Randy Warblemacher, makes a power play that threatens to rock the vote, Austin, Sophie, and the crew attempt to persevere through election fraud and dirty politics. What's more, a new force rises, led by the evil, aspiring-First Lady, Regan Storm. The mayhem her Pretty Posse causes is downright ugly. Get ready for bumbling candidates, Calvin Conklin leading the debates, and a whole lot of mud slinging on the campaign trail. The power struggle is real! Will a clever ruse by the conniving Randy crush Nerd Nation once and for all? Is there a puppet master pulling all the strings behind the scenes? Will Sophie's thirst for power push Austin away? Will the cafeteria's revolting cuisine lead to an actual revolt? Who will rise to rule Cherry Avenue Middle School? Find out in Election Misdirection... it's mayhem for the masses!

Magic and Showmanship

Author : Henning Nelms
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486136787
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Showmanship written by Henning Nelms and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly instructive book by a noted authority on the subject analyzes every phase of conjuring, from sleights, devices, misdirection, and controlling audience attention to incorporating patter and the effective use of assistants.

The Mis-education of the Negro

Author : Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher : ReadaClassic.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mis-education of the Negro written by Carter Godwin Woodson and published by ReadaClassic.com. This book was released on 1969 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murder in Misdirection

Author : Anne Cleeland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998595634
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Misdirection written by Anne Cleeland and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a bit puzzling, that Chief Inspector Acton hadn't mentioned the body they'd discovered in the burnt-out church, even though he must have known that Doyle would find it of great interest. Was the arsonist caught up in her own fire, or was there a deeper, more sinister tale told by the blackened rubble? Although she was sidelined on maternity leave, Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle was fast coming to the realization that her husband hadn't told her, because he was masterminding some scheme-a scheme that may-or-may-not involve arson, blood money, and the ducks of St. Petersburg.

Anatomy of Misdirection

Author : Joseph L. Bruno
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781484025550
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Misdirection written by Joseph L. Bruno and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anatomy of Misdirection is a complete guide for both amateur and professional magicians. Fifteen basic principles of misdirection are defined in the book. These principles are presented in an easy to read, conversational manner. The reader is guided step-by-step through each principle learning both how-to and when-to apply the various techniques. Many illustrations are included with each principle to demonstrate its use with a practical example. The 35th Anniversary Edition is a revised and updated edition of the book which was published in 1978. The book was widely acclaimed by the magic community and received accolades from around the world. This edition contains some new and updated material and illustrations.

Writing Queer Women of Color

Author : Monalesia Earle
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476636818
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Writing Queer Women of Color written by Monalesia Earle and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as "less than" the white, Eurocentric norm. Drawing on semiotics, queer theory, and gender studies, this book addresses the imbalanced representation of queer women of color in graphic narratives and fiction and explores ways of rewriting queer women of color back into the frame. The author interrogates what it means to be "Other" and how "Othering" can be more creatively resisted.

Pretty Baby

Author : Mary Kubica
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 0778317706
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Pretty Baby written by Mary Kubica and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thrilling and illuminating."--LA Times "A hypnotic psychological thriller." --People A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this new gripping and complex psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl and the upcoming page-turner Don't You Cry, Mary Kubica She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head... Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal--or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated. More Praise: "Hypnotic and anything but predictable." --Kirkus, starred review "A superb psychological thriller...stunning."--Publishers Weekly, starred review Read the New York Times bestselling novel that everyone is talking about, The Good Girl, by Mary Kubica Look for Mary's latest complex and addictive tale of deceit and obsession, Don't You Cry. Order your copies today

Are You Watching Closely?

Author : Seth Friedman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438465912
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Are You Watching Closely? written by Seth Friedman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies a new genremisdirection filmsand explains its appeal to contemporary producers and audiences. Are You Watching Closely? is the first book to explore the recent spate of misdirection films, a previously unidentified Hollywood genre characterized by narratives that inspire viewers to reinterpret them retrospectively. Since 1990, Hollywood has backed more of these films than ever before, many of which, including The Sixth Sense (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Inception (2010), were both commercial and critical successes. Seth Friedman examines this genre in its sociocultural, industrial, and technological contexts to explain why it has become more attractive to producers and audiences. The recent popularity of misdirection films, Friedman argues, is linked to new technologies that enable repeat viewings and online discussion, which makes it enticing to an industry that depends increasingly on the aftermarket, as well as to historically specific cultural developments. That is, in addition to being well suited for shifting industrial and technological conditions, these films are appealing because they suggest that it remains possible to know what actually occurred and who was really responsible for events at a time when it is also becoming increasingly recognized that truth is relative. Are You Watching Closely? shows how Hollywoods effective strategies for these changing circumstances put it at the forefront of a storytelling trend that has increasingly become important across media. Through close analyses of how misdirection films have been designed, marketed, and received in relation to their contexts, Friedman demonstrates the ways in which they epitomize a kind of narrative experimentation that has become a crucial facet of twenty-first-century audiovisual storytelling.

The Last Lie She Told

Author : K. McGillick
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722307042
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Last Lie She Told written by K. McGillick and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lies and misdirection rule the game. To some, Fiona O'Dell is clever and manipulative. To others, she is a dangerous sociopath. One thing is certain - she's trouble wherever she goes. Now she has vanished from her job at a cutting-edge genetic technology firm, but not before being seen leaving a motel room where one man is found dead, another on the edge of death. When a genome-editing tool of incredible potential also goes missing, the CEO is convinced that Fiona has it. Millions of dollars are at stake. His fear-she will auction it off on the Dark Web. After the devastating loss of his wife, Lee Stone leaves the Chicago homicide unit to search for a new career opportunity in the private sector. Things go smoothly, and he is comfortable at the firm until he is assigned the case of Fiona O'Dell. In a race to find her, he tracks her across four states in an attempt to obtain the gene-editing tool. Fiona continually eludes his grasp and leaves a trail of dead men in her wake. With little information and even less evidence, each new crime scene brings more questions than answers. It is not until Lee teams up with the bright and forthright NYPD detective, Belle Hughes, that he connects the dots. As their personal relationship heats up, the pair encounters a growing number of potential suspects including the CEO himself. But are the murders and theft connected? While secrets are revealed, Lee and Belle can draw only one conclusion: Fiona controls the game, the players, even the course of the investigation. As the danger to their own lives escalates, they must master the game or fall victim to it.

How Magicians Think

Author : Joshua Jay
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523510919
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book How Magicians Think written by Joshua Jay and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional magician Joshua Jay's (author of Magic: The Complete Course) brief and fascinating essays offer an inside look at how the very best magicians think about magic, how they practice and put together a show, what inspires them, and the psychology behind creating wonder and being tricked when we expect both, as well as why we seek magic in the first place.

Karma Never Loses an Address

Author : K. J. McGillick
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781793819963
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Karma Never Loses an Address written by K. J. McGillick and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayal on Every Level Marley Bennington had brutally murdered her older sister Samantha in a drug fueled rage. Only two people know that fact as true. One of those two people, was sitting in a state prison, serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit. Who was that unfortunate person? Alex Clarke, Samantha Bennington's husband, the man so buried in circumstantial evidence that he confessed to a crime he didn't commit, rather than face a trial. He was now trapped with no way out. It all began as sibling rivalry and jealousy, as so many tales of treachery do. Now, that intense jealousy had ended in her sister's murder. Once Alex was tucked safely away in prison, Marley was set to inherit millions of dollars tainted with her sister's blood. But suddenly, two obstacles stood in her way preventing her from quickly obtaining the reward for her well executed plan. One obstacle was her brother, and the other a nosy little old lady. But for Marley, this wasn't a problem. She had killed twice already and cheated the justice system. What were a few more bodies? Justice delayed is justice denied. Can Marley be trapped by the very people she tried to deceive? Will karma finally visit her door? Another gripping, tangled tale from the author of Facing A Twisted Judgment.

The Big Con

Author : David Maurer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030775572X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Big Con written by David Maurer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.” “Of all the grifters, the confidence man is the aristocrat,” wrote David Maurer, a proposition he definitely proved in The Big Con, one of the most colorful, well-researched, and entertaining works of criminology ever written. A professor of linguistics who specialized in underworld argot, Maurer won the trust of hundreds of swindlers, who let him in on not simply their language but their folkways and the astonishingly complex and elaborate schemes whereby unsuspecting marks, hooked by their own greed and dishonesty, were “taken off” – i.e. cheated—of thousands upon thousands of dollars. The Big Con is a treasure trove of American lingo (the write, the rag, the payoff, ropers, shills, the cold poke, the convincer, to put on the send) and indelible characters (Yellow Kid Weil, Barney the Patch, the Seldom Seen Kid, Limehouse Chappie, Larry the Lug). It served as the source for the Oscar-winning film The Sting.

Murder in Material Gain

Author : Anne Cleeland
Publisher : Bowser
ISBN 13 : 9781734431674
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Material Gain written by Anne Cleeland and published by Bowser. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holidays had come and gone, and Doyle was chafing to get back home to London, so as to start being productive, again. Acton's hereditary estate was grand indeed, but there was something a bit off-putting about the grandeur, and all that tiresome peacefulness. After all, Trestles hadn't always been a peaceful sort of place; for hundreds of years, it had housed generation after generation who were consumed with ruthless ambition, and who were willing to sail very close to the wind, in their quest for material gain. Best to whisk Acton away, before this troublesome atmosphere seeped into his very bones. . . .

Wait Till You See Me Dance

Author : Deb Olin Unferth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979629
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Wait Till You See Me Dance written by Deb Olin Unferth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What an important and exciting talent.”—George Saunders For more than ten years, Deb Olin Unferth has been publishing startlingly askew, wickedly comic, cutting-edge fiction in magazines such as Granta, Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, NOON, and The Paris Review. Her stories are revered by some of the best American writers of our day, but until now there has been no stand-alone collection of her short fiction. Wait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling “The First Full Thought of Her Life,” a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In “Voltaire Night,” students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In “Stay Where You Are,” two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent—but the gunman has his own problems. An Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal, in terrifying clarity, the rage, despair, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme, Lorrie Moore, and George Saunders, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.