The Snitch, Houdini and Me

Author: Johnny Virgil
Publisher: Jv Enterprises
ISBN: 9780615386935
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Growing up in the 70's wasn't easy. Only parental threats could steer Virgil and his two younger brothers away from trouble-- or directly into it. Join him on an irreverent romp as he recounts the stories that made him what he is today: an unimportant cog in a vast, corporate financial services machine.

I Am Harry Houdini

Author: Brooke Vitale
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593096851
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
An 8x8 based on an episode from the PBS KIDS animated television series Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum starring Harry Houdini. Based on the children's book series Ordinary People Change the World by New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos, the series will introduce kids to inspiring historical figures and the character virtues that helped them succeed. Brad is too scared to spend a full night in the museum's nature exhibit so the Secret Museum sends him and his friends to meet Harry Houdini! This episode-based 8x8 will focus on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves.

Houdini Logic: VHS SPECIAL EDITION

Author: Cahjli Symes
Publisher: Cahjli S Symes
ISBN: 169106744X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 570

Book Description
Meet Jorge Goldwasser: A disillusioned, underground chemist, dealing with depression due to the death of his fiancée. Back in 2010, Jorge was developing a chemical which was originally intended to be a cure for insomnia and night terrors. However, Jorge made a deadly discovery about his cure which attracted the attention of an international shipping tycoon. Once Jorge was hired to work with the tycoon's family, the operation goes south horrifically fast. As events begin to transpire, Jorge is drawn into a deadly game of sociopolitical manipulation, cannibalism, the occult, crimes against humanity, and ends up being used as a pawn for domestic terrorism by an elite pedophile ring. This edition includes the heartbreaking conclusion to the most deranged book of 2017!

The Great Houdini

Author: Monica Kulling
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679985730
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Harry Houdini was a great escape artist, but perhaps his greatest trick was becoming the famous magician that we have come to know. As a child, Houdini worked hard--and even quit school--to help support his family. But his dream always was to become a great magician and performer. He practiced day and night, thinking up new tricks and more and more dangerous stunts. His intense ambition paid off, and soon Harry Houdini became known worldwide! This kid-appealing Step 3 traces Houdini's life from his poor beginnings to his eventual success as the most famous mystical magician and escape artist of all time.

Houdini!

Author: Kenneth Silverman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description
American self-liberator, Europe's eclipsing sensation, world's handcuff king and prison breaker -- nothing on earth can hold Houdini a prisoner.

A Picture Book of Harry Houdini

Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823434141
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Harry Houdini astounded audiences around the globe with his death-defying acts and illusions. With his wife, Bess, often by his side, he freed himself from ropes, handcuffs, straitjackets, and prison cells. Once he even made a ten-thousand-pound elephant vanish into thin air! Yet Harry's life was not always so glamorous. When he was a boy, he shined shoes and did odd jobs to help make ends meet. But a career in magic was always in the cards for Harry. Readers will be mesmerized by this captivating biography of one of the most celebrated escape artists and magicians in history.

Escape!

Author: Sid Fleischman
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
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Nothing Happened

Author: Molly Booth
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1484758536
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
IT'S MUCH ADO . . . ABOUT EVERYTHING. This modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing takes place at the idyllic Camp Dogberry, where sisters Bee and Hana Leonato have lived their whole lives. Their parents own the place, and every summer they look forward to leading little campers in crafts, swimming in the lake, playing capture the flag and sproutball, and of course, throwing legendary counselor parties. This year, the camp drama isn't just on the improv stage. Bee and longtime counselor Ben have a will-they-or-won't-they romance that's complicated by events that happened—or didn't happen—last summer. Meanwhile, Hana is falling hard for the kind but insecure Claudia, putting them both in the crosshairs of resident troublemaker John, who spreads a vicious rumor that could tear them apart. As the counselors juggle their camp responsibilities with simmering drama that comes to a head at the Fourth of July sparkler party, they'll have to swallow their pride and find the courage to untangle the truth, whether it leads to heartbreak or happily ever after.

Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright

Author: Val Andrews
Publisher: Ulverscroft
ISBN: 9780708952924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Here, two areas of mystery are linked: the exploits of Sherlock Holmes and the secrets of master escapologist, Harry Houdini. Doctor Watson's collaborator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, finds himself drawn into the world of the fake psychics and Houdini is anxious for Holmes to unmask the perpetrators who prey on the innocent believers. Holmes's investigations lead him to some surprising locations, including a Ruritanian castle.

Houdini

Author: Jason Lutes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
"I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living." Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so over ninety years since his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous feats. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason Lutes and artist Nick Bertozzi reveal Houdini's life and influence: from the anti-Semitism Houdini fought all his life, to the adulation of the American public; from his hounding by the press, to his loving relationship with his wife Bess; from his egoism to his insecurity; from his public persona--to the secret behind his most amazing trick! And it's all in graphic form, so it's fresh, original, and unlike anything previously published about this most fascinating of American showmen.