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Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Houdini Unbound written by Harry Houdini and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Saltman
Publisher : Hudson River Books
ISBN 13 : 9780998532950
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Houdini Unbound written by David Saltman and published by Hudson River Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, based on true events. Harry Houdini, after brilliant performances, is invited to become spiritual adviser to Nicholas & Alexandra, emperor and empress of Russia. President Theodore Roosevelt enlists Houdini as a spy. Deceived by the secret police, Houdini loses his position, leaving an opening which is soon filled by Rasputin.
Author : Zee Mbuluma - The Layman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1543485022
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Unbound, yet Bound written by Zee Mbuluma - The Layman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man has been known to be a creature naturally resistant to change. He will resist change of anything that to him constitutes a comfort zone, a niche, a power base, or a strongholdbe it environmental, social, physiological, cultural, spiritual, or whatever else. This resistance can stem from a myriad of causes, but we will discuss one of the major onespride, as equated to arrogance, stubbornness, self-centeredness. This study will be centred on highlighting the causes and effects of this particular vice, and how Romans 12:2, which is an imperative personal prerequisite for any Christian before they can begin to contemplate espousing the great commission or the greatest commandments or even attaining the kingdom of eternal life, is not possible for as long as this pride is present in any man. The importance and relevance of embracing and effecting change as pointed out in Romans 12:2 cannot be overemphasised. And pride is the major stumbling block.
Author : Joe Posnanski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501137255
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini written by Joe Posnanski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Posnanski enters the colorful world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans to explore the illusionist’s impact on global culture—and why his legacy endures to this day. Nearly a century after Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926, he feels as modern and alive as ever. The name Houdini still leaps to mind whenever we witness a daring escape. The baby who frees herself from her crib? Houdini. The dog who vanishes and reappears in the neighbor’s garden? Houdini. Every generation produces new disciples of the magician, from household names in magic like David Copperfield and David Blaine to countless other followers whose lives have been transformed by the power of Houdini. In rural Pennsylvania, a thirteen-year-old girl finds the courage to leave a violent home after learning that Houdini ran away to join the circus; she eventually becomes the first female magician to saw a man in half on television. In Australia, an eight-year-old boy with a learning impediment feels worthless until he sees an old poster of Houdini advertising “Nothing on earth can hold Houdini prisoner,” and begins his path to becoming that nation’s most popular magician. In California, an actor and Vietnam War veteran finds purpose in his life by uncovering the secrets of his hero. But the unique phenomenon of Houdini was always more than his death-defying stunts or his ability to escape handcuffs and straitjackets. It is also about the power of imagination and self-invention. His incredible transformation from Ehrich Weiss, humble Hungarian immigrant and rabbi’s son, into the self-named Harry Houdini has won him a slice of immortality. No one has withstood the test of time quite like Houdini. Fueled by Posnanski’s personal obsession with the magician—and magic itself—The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini is a poignant odyssey of discovery, blending biography, memoir, and first-person reporting to trace Houdini’s metamorphosis into an iconic figure who has inspired millions.
Author : Fred Thursfield
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780925948
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Escape Artist written by Fred Thursfield and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Spirits Return? Sherlock Holmes, Mary Watson, and Harry Houdini say ‘No' and prove it.
Author : Alex Dong
Publisher : Hudson River Books
ISBN 13 : 9780998532912
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Houdini Unbound written by Alex Dong and published by Hudson River Books. This book was released on 2017-04-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Dong Ying Jie, famous Tai Chi master.
Author : Adam Begley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230796
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Houdini written by Adam Begley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American," provides a succinct summary of the Master Mystifier's life. Born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, Houdini grew up an impoverished Jewish immigrant in the Midwest and became world-famous thanks to talent, industry, and ferocious determination. He concealed as a matter of temperament and professional ethics the secrets of his sensational success. Nobody knows how Houdini performed some of his dazzling, death-defying tricks, and nobody knows, finally, why he felt compelled to punish and imprison himself over and over again. Must a self-liberator also be a self-torturer? Tracking the restless Houdini's wide-ranging exploits, acclaimed biographer Adam Begley asks the essential question: What kind of man was this? About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: "Excellent." - New York times "Exemplary." - Wall St. Journal "Distinguished." - New Yorker "Superb." - The Guardian
Author : Kirsten Weiss
Publisher : misterio press
ISBN 13 : 1944767657
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Unbound written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Witches and a Metaphysical Detective… Riga just wants to mentor three young witches and go home. Doyle witch Jayce wouldn’t take help if it landed on her. But when a man is murdered in front of their eyes, these two must learn to work together. Because a dead man is the least of their worries… Jayce Bonheim loves magic and Doyle, California. But she and her small town have been paying a deadly price for the fairy gate she and her sisters can’t close. Now, a society of dark magicians has returned to town, a deadly winged monster has come through the gate, and an old friend has been murdered. And the new mentor who’s supposed to help Jayce and her sisters seems to have an agenda of her own… It was supposed to be a simple training gig for Riga Hayworth, not a murder investigation. Still reeling from a tragic mistake in her past, she’s determined to stay retired. But the murder and the town’s magic seem tied together. Can Riga resist the lure of an investigation? A thrilling and funny paranormal mystery, packed with magic, mystery, and murder. Perfect for fans of Mercy Thompson, Supernatural, and Charlaine Harris. Buy Unbound and start reading this page-turning witch mystery today.
Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466846453
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Zuckerman Unbound written by Philip Roth and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Roth's fictional alter-ego returns in Zuckerman Unbound, "...masterful, sure in every touch." (The New York Times) The sensationalizing sixties are coming to an end, and even writing a novel can make you a star. The writer Nathan Zuckerman publishes his fourth book, an aggressive, abrasive, and comically erotic novel entitled Carnovsky, and all at once he is on the cover of Life, one of the decade's most notorious celebrities. This is the same Nathan Zuckerman who in Philip Roth's much praised The Ghost Writer was the dedicated young apprentice drawing sustenance from the great books and the integrity of their authors. Now in his mid-thirties, Zuckerman, a would-be recluse despite his fame, ventures out on the streets of Manhattan, and not only is he assumed to be his own fictional satyr, Gilbert Carnovsky ("Hey, you do all that stuff in that book?"), but he also finds himself the target of admirers, admonishers, advisers, and would-be literary critics. The recent murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., lead an unsettled Nathan Zuckerman to wonder if "target" may be more than a figure of speech. Yet, streetcorner recognition and media notoriety are the least disturbing consequences of writing Carnovsky. Against his best interests, the newly renowned novelist retreats from his oldest friends, breaks his marriage to a virtuous woman, and damages, perhaps irreparably, his affectionate connection to his younger brother and his family. Even when finally he lives out the fantasies of his fans and enjoys an exhilarating night with the beautiful and worldly film star Caesara O'Shea (a rather more capable celebrity), he is dismayed the following morning by the caliber of the competition up in the erotic big leagues. In some of Zuckerman Unbound's funniest episodes Zuckerman endures the blandishments of another New Jersey boy who has briefly achieved his own moment of stardom. He is the broken and resentful fan Alvin Pepler, in the fifties a national celebrity on the TV quiz show "Smart Money." Thrust back into obscurity when headlined scandals forced the quiz show off the air, Pepler now attaches himself to Zuckerman and won't let go--an "Angel of Manic Delights" to the amused novelist (who momentarily sees him as his "pop self"), and yet also the likely source of a demonic threat. But the surprise that fate finally delivers is more devilish than any cooked up by Alvin Pepler, or even by Zuckerman's imagination. In the coronary-care unit of a Miami Hospital, Nathan's father bestows upon his older son not a blessing but what seems to be a curse. And, in an astonishingly bitter final turn, a confrontation with his brother opens the way for the novelist's deep and painful understanding of the deathblow that Carnovsky has dealt to his own past.
Author : Cameron Garriepy
Publisher : Bannerwing Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Unbound Heart written by Cameron Garriepy and published by Bannerwing Books. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samantha Ellis is looking for a fresh start. What she finds is a second chance. After escaping a nightmare marriage, Samantha followed her heart home to Blueberry Hill, Vermont. When she accepted an offer to babysit her young cousins for a week, she never dreamed she’d be bunking with the long-lost– unrequited–love of her life. Will Dryer never stopped thinking about Sam Ellis, even after they both left their hometown behind. Finding her again in Blueberry Hill after all these years just feels right, but Sam is hurting, and her old life in New Orleans still holds her captive. Her ex-mother-in-law’s arrival in town awakens strange feelings in Sam–something that feels a lot like magic. Something she must embrace before she can give Will her unbound heart. UNBOUND HEART is a contemporary romance novella which contains references to witches and supernatural powers, references to physical and sexual violence in a main character’s past, abduction, references to the death of a friend, strong language, alcohol use, and open-door sexual situations.
Author : John F. Kasson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429930039
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man written by John F. Kasson and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were. When the Prussian-born Eugene Sandow, an international vaudeville star and bodybuilder, toured the United States in the 1890s, Florenz Ziegfeld cannily presented him as the "Perfect Man," representing both an ancient ideal of manhood and a modern commodity extolling self-development and self-fulfillment. Then, when Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan swung down a vine into the public eye in 1912, the fantasy of a perfect white Anglo-Saxon male was taken further, escaping the confines of civilization but reasserting its values, beating his chest and bellowing his triumph to the world. With Harry Houdini, the dream of escape was literally embodied in spectacular performances in which he triumphed over every kind of threat to masculine integrity -- bondage, imprisonment, insanity, and death. Kasson's liberally illustrated and persuasively argued study analyzes the themes linking these figures and places them in their rich historical and cultural context. Concern with the white male body -- with exhibiting it and with the perils to it --reached a climax in World War I, he suggests, and continues with us today.
Author : Brad Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982132620
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Amazon Unbound written by Brad Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the growth of tech company Amazon and the evolution of its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos.
Author : Daniel Stashower
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1848569041
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ectoplasmic Man written by Daniel Stashower and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harry Houdini is framed and jailed for espionage, Sherlock Holmes vows to clear his name, with the two joining forces to take on blackmailers who have targeted the Prince of Wales. It’s a case that requires all of their skills — both mental and physical. Can the daring duo solve what people are calling “The Crime of the Century”? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes’ career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds’ greatest detective.
Author : Larissa Ione
Publisher : Forever
ISBN 13 : 0446537713
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Pleasure Unbound written by Larissa Ione and published by Forever. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dark and intriguing paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Larissa Ione, a forbidden romance turns deadly when a slayer is tasked with killing the demon who saved her life. In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life . . . She's a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life. Two lovers will dare to risk all. Eidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. Torn between his need for the truth and his quest to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable-and let Tayla possess him, body and soul...
Author : Theodore Steinberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476741247
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Gotham Unbound written by Theodore Steinberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of New York City as it was transformed over a four-hundred-year period by politicians and developers from a Hudson River estuary with rolling hills, rivers, and forests into the concrete flatland that exists today.
Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Houdini Exposes the Tricks Used by the Boston Medium "Margery" to Win the $2500 Prize Offered by the Scientific American written by Harry Houdini and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Kalush
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847396194
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Secret Life of Houdini written by William Kalush and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using exclusive access to newly uncovered archives, Kalush and Sloman reveal the clandestine agreements in which the British and Americans recruited Houdini to be an active secret agent. In exchange for his cooperation, the governments of these two countries facilitated his rise to the top of the world stage. The authors give thrilling accounts of his assignments, such as his participation in early aerial surveillance and his use of his own magic magazine to communicate espionage-related information. After the war, Houdini embarked upon what became his most dangerous mission when he took on the Spiritualist movement. Convinced that Spiritualist mediums were frauds, he became obsessed with exposing them. But the Spiritualists were a powerful adversary. An organized network of fanatics, led by Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, worked relentlessly to orchestrate a campaign that would silence Houdini forever. Grounded in solid research, but as exciting and dramatic as a good thriller, THE SECRET LIFE OF HOUDINI traces the magician's long and circuitous route from struggling vaudevillian to worldwide legend.
