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Loki's Book of Magic and Mischief: Tricks and Deceptions from the Prince of Illusions by Marvel Comics 9781637741627
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $25.35Everyone loves magic! Especially Marvel Comics' Loki, who's mastery of magic makes him one of the most dangerous - and beloved - antiheroes in all of The Nine Realms. And now, for the first time... -
Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks for Everyone: More Than 50 Step-by-Step Card, Coin, and Mentalism Tricks Using Everyday Objects by Oscar Owen
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.69"The ultimate guide to mastering the art of magic." -Business Insider"A must-have for any aspiring magician." -Mashable Learn to perform 50 unbelievable magic tricks that will impress and astonish... -
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic: Discover history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks, and illusions Tom Adams 9780711280588
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.03Welcome all rascals and tricksters to this marvellous miscellany of mischief and magic! This playful book explores the world of deception and trickery - both the good and the bad. Learn the secrets... -
The Last Illusion by Rhys Bowen 9781472118523
Booksplease Price: $40.37Irish immigrant and private detective Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to see world-famous illusionist Harry Houdini. But before he can even take the stage, the opening act goes horribly... -
Enchanted New York: A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan's Magical Past by Kevin Dann
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York's magical past Manhattan has a pervasive quality of glamour-a heightened sense of personality generated by a place whose cinematic,... -
Westchester: History of an Iconic Suburb by Robert Marchant 9781476673240
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time of European settlement to the present, examines four centuries of development in an iconic region that became the archetypal American... -
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens 9781501134203
Booksplease Price: $28.82Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying "new kind of history" (The New Yorker), the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed... -
Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine by Alexander Nemerov 9780691170176
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.83Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while... -
Thespian Playworks 2013 by Jacob Sellers 9780573702907
Booksplease Price: $24.69From the nationally recognized Educational Theatre Association's Thespian Playworks competition come four short scripts - all created by high school-aged playwrights! Included in this volume are: ... -
David Copperfield's History of Magic by David Copperfield
Booksplease Price: $74.82An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art... -
The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton by Robert Knopf 9780691004426
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $57.45Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dali and Bunuel. Here Robert Knopf offers an... -
Bug Club NF Brown B/3B Real Life: Daredevils by Nick Hunter
Booksplease Price: $18.39This book tells us about the lives of four people behind some of the most amazing stunts in history: Harry Houdini, Bessie Coleman, Evel Knievel and Alain Robert. Part of the Bug Club reading series... -
Take Back Your Life Study Guide: A 40-Day Interactive Journey to Thinking Right So You Can Live Right by Levi Lusko 9780310118916
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.75This forty-day interactive journey challenges you to come face to face with the real you, identify the internal battles you must declare war on, and become the difference-maker God created you to be... -
Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind by J. B. Rhine 9780557287178
RRP: $19.95Booksplease Price: $18.82Master magician Harry Houdini and English ghost researcher Harry Price were true pioneers in both establishing skepticism and scientific methods in the newly created field of paranormal research... -
Scenario for a Leather Fantasy by Jim Stewart 9781291745696
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $15.07Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the... -
Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.89Why God Is a Woman is a collection of poems written about a magical island where women rule and men are the second sex. It is also the story of a boy who, exiled from the island because he could not... -
The Gold Rush by Matthew Solomon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.11Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing it in the context of the turn-of-the-century Alaska... -
The Great Escape by Kate Egan 9781250047182
Booksplease Price: $20.03Mike is doing better in school these days. Learning magic helps him to learn other things as well. Sure, he's gotten in trouble in the past, but things are different now. So why does everyone still... -
Ride to Greenville by Jim Stewart 9781291745788
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $15.07Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the... -
Only in Budapest: A Guide to Unique Locations, Hidden Corners and Unusual Objects by Duncan J. D. Smith 9783950366273
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $28.67Discover Europe with the 'Only In' Guides! These ground breaking city guides are for independent cultural travellers wishing to escape the crowds and understand cities from different and unusual... -
39 Clues Graphix #1: The Maze of Bones (Graphic Novel Edition) by Rick Riordan
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.85The mega-bestseller that launched a global phenomenon is back - now as a graphic novel! Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her... -
Hotel Lautreamont John Ashberry 9780856359934
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62The Count of Lautreamont - a nineteenth-century poet about whom little is known, except that he spent his brief adult life in various hotels in Paris, checking out of his transient existence at the... -
Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything by Kevin Cook 9780330529952
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.03Titanic Thompson is the rollicking true story of one of the most charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Travelling only with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash,... -
Midnight in Tehran: Operation Long Jump, the Nazi Plot to Assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin by Christopher Sandford 9781476687568
Booksplease Price: $57.17This is the gripping history of the Nazi-sponsored attempt to infiltrate the 1943 wartime Allied conference in Tehran and to assassinate the "Big Three" leaders: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston... -
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer 9780786714018
Booksplease Price: $35.35Now in paperback comes Jim Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians. Lauded by today's... -
Equals by Adam Phillips 9780465056804
Booksplease Price: $29.99Written in his beloved epigrammatic and aphoristic style, Equals extends Adam Phillips's probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the... -
Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snyder 9781504035606
RRP: $27.20Booksplease Price: $17.04From a three-time Newbery Honor author: Harry Houdini Marco had it hard enough as a normal clumsy twelve-year-old-but growing wings made it even worse. Except for his unusual name, Harry Houdini... -
The Illusionist's Apprentice by Kristy Cambron 9780718041502
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.41Set during one of the richest, most vibrant eras in American history, this Jazz Age novel tracks Houdini's assistant in a world of misdirection, suspense, and forgotten pasts to remind us that not... -
Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature by Adam Phillips 9780465056781
Booksplease Price: $37.46As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this... -
Iron Ambition: Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a Champion Mike Tyson 9780751559620
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49The story of the relationship between the most devastating heavyweight boxer in history and the mentor who made him.When legendary boxing trainer Cus D'Amato saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in... -
A Thief in the Night: A Young Raffles Adventure Paul Adam 9781068447709
Booksplease Price: $25.41Darren Raffles didn't believe in magic... until he found a tatty old cricket ball in his gran's attic and rubbed it - only to see a mysterious ghost appear. The ghost of A.J. Raffles, the famous... -
The Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan 9781944995652
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.23Seventeen-year-old Mattie has a hidden obsession: escapology. Emphasis on hidden. If anyone from school finds out, she'll be abandoned to her haters. Facing a long and lonely summer, Mattie finally... -
Elseworlds: Batman Omnibus Vol. 1 Doug Moench 9781799502746
RRP: $312.00Booksplease Price: $217.43The Dark Knight reimagined across worlds that never were and futures that may yet come. Step into the shadows of alternate realities where Gotham s protector is reborn again and again in twisted,... -
Take Back Your Life: A 40-Day Interactive Journey to Thinking Right So You Can Live Right by Levi Lusko 9780785232766
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $40.81Paralyzed by anxiety, fear, and uncertainty? In this 40-day interactive journey, discover a step-by-step process that can break that cycle. Offering an action plan and journaling space for turning... -
Long Island's Most Haunted: A Ghost Hunter's Guide Joseph Flammer 9780764332937
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.89Dare to investigate Long Island's most haunted places to experience real ghosts! Pursue a dreaded headless ghost at Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue Village that rises from the grave and chases girls!... -
The Mystery of Wickworth Manor by Elen Caldecott
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Paige Owens, bright, cheeky, confident, cannot wait to go to secondary school. Curtis Okafor, wary and much less confident, is not so sure. The only thing they share in common is the first letter of... -
Prison Break: True Stories of the World's Greatest Escapes by Paul Buck 9781843589600
Booksplease Price: $20.07'These men for whom there is little else that life has to offer, little or nothing to lose; these are men who are at the limits; these are men who might walk on hot coals without burning their feet.'... -
Magic: A Beginner's Guide by Robert Ralley 9781851687138
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. Shape shifting between the supernatural practices of 'real' magic and demonstrations of dazzling illusion,... -
Darwin's Worms by Adam Phillips 9780465056767
Booksplease Price: $28.74Adam Phillips has been called "the psychotherapist of the floating world" and "the closest thing we have to a philosopher of happiness." His style is epigrammatic; his intelligence, electric. His new... -
Long Island's Mt Haunted Cemeteries by Joseph Flammer 9780764335891
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $33.64Have you wondered what lies beyond the grave? Join the Paranormal Adventurers as they unlock secrets in some of Long Island's historic and most haunted cemeteries. Venture with them into the darkest...