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I'm Tricky Nick. The world's greatest magician. This is my absolutely not-made-up story of magical greatness. Magic changed my life and it could change yours too. I learnt my first trick when I was ten and now I'll teach it to you (plus a whole bunch more). You'll also meet Trixie, a magical mystery girl, the strange B.U.M (Brotherhood of United Magicians) and find out other Top Secret Stuff I can't reveal just yet. This tale is so incredible, so unbelievable, you'll swear I'm making it up. But you can trust me, I'm a magician ...
My Husband Was Hiding Something By: Amanda Noel Darcy This personal memoir presents the story of Darcy’s marriage and divorce from a man who she later found out to be a homosexual after ten years of marriage and three children. This compelling book shares her experiences as her husband searches for his sexual identity and becomes involved with their parish priest. Names and details have been changed to protect her family. Darcy wrote this book to help others who may be going through a similar experience.
Nicholas Binge's novel is told by his fictional character, Chloe Chan, and masquerades as an academic work written by her, with footnotes and fictional bibliography. There is a second -- fictional -- title page which bears her name. As Chloe tells it, she is just about to give up on finding any real scholars at University when she starts to hear the rumours about Professor Roland Crannus. Spoken about in the whispers of conspiracy, the enigmatic Professor is idolised by students as the pinnacle of modern intellectualism - more myth than man. Drawn in by the mystery, and desperate to know more, Chloe follows the Professor into an academic labyrinth of clandestine mysteries and untold possibil...
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
In this exciting mystery, thirteen-year-old Nick and his faithful dog, Wags, are mixed up in a scheme even more exciting, and dangerous, than they have ever been in before. Daryl, a school bully, forces Nick to meet him at the creepy Tower Motel, a place that local legend says is haunted. On his way there, a snowstorm threatens, and a mysterious girl named Ionie warns Nick to stay away from the motel. Snowed in by the blizzard, Nick joins forces with Ionie and learns that she has a dangerous secret. Nick must keep Ionie's secret, or risk both their lives.
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. As he describes how human thought has been shaped thr...
Authoritative account of the fundamental social and demographic changes that have shaped the turbulent and polarised politics of the UK today.
This box set contains the first three books in the romantic suspense series, Fateful Justice. Reflections It wasn’t the first time Lash Brogan had aimed a gun at another man and pulled the trigger. It wasn’t the first time he’d watched a man fall to the ground bleeding. As an actor, he’d done just that countless times. But this time it was not a scene from one of his movies. This time it was for real. When Lash Brogan, an Irish immigrant and one of America’s most popular movie stars, is kidnapped and held hostage in the mountains of Colorado, it will take all of his strength and determination as well as help from a beautiful stranger to help him escape. Justine McBride is a reclusi...
All Elisabeth Sutton wanted was for John Lawson to leave her alone. So she devised a plan when she laid eyes on the best looking man in all of Louisville Kentucky, Nicholas Montgomery. She told the biggest lie of her life and hoped he would follow her lead and agree that they were betrothed. She never dreamed there would be a duel over her. This would be the start of a scandal of a lifetime and possibly make her honor bound to the wealthiest man in Louisville Kentucky. This scandal would be something the Sutton family honor couldnt afford since her brother, Ryan Sutton, was running for congress. That night at Charlene Uptons party he just wanted to convince Ryan Sutton to become a congressman. He hadnt expected to play a Knight in shining armor to a spoiled heiress who spent most of her day shopping. Then an idea popped into his head. He would take her as a wife and teach her a few things. In the end that little lady taught him a few things. That didnt stop their love or the passion they felt for each other. He loved stealing kisses.