The magician and the spirits : Harry Houdini and the curious pastime of communicating with the dead / Deborah Noyes.
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TextPublisher: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2017]Description: 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780803740181
- 0803740182
- Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926
- Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926
- Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926 -- Biography
- Magicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Escape artists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Spiritualism
- Spiritualism -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Magicians
- Escape artists
- Spiritualism
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Historical
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Games & Activities -- Magic
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Issues -- Death & Dying
- Escape artists
- Magicians
- Spiritualism
- Escape artists -- United States -- Biography
- Spiritualism
- Magicians -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- 793.8092 23
- GV1545.H8 N69 2017
- JNF007020 | JNF021030 | JNF053030
- A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
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Scandia City Library | Kids | Middle Readers | MR 793.8092 Noyes, Deborah | Available | 36966000092551 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-146) and index.
Introduction -- Harry and Bess Houdini, spirit mediums -- Dealings with the dead -- The mother's boy -- The torch bearer -- "In the light" -- Manifestations! -- A menace to health and sanity -- Science and sincerity -- It takes a flimflammer to catch a flimflammer -- The end (or is it?) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index.
"Famed illusionist Harry Houdini embarks on a quest to investigate spiritual phenomena and the possibility of communication with those on the "other side.""--
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
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