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	Books of Wonder $120 by Tommy Wonder Never has there been a more articulate manifesto declaring magic a true art. And never has one man offered a more detailed and coherent plan for achieving art by the practice of magic. Through a series of tricks, routines and essays, Tommy Wonder provides a clear blueprint for an uncompromising brand of magical theater. Along the way he explains his professional routines for Close-up. Stand-up, Walk-around and Stage. Among them are...The Updated Two Cup Routine; Watch in Nest of Boxes, 3 methods; Wild Card Tamed; The Watch, the Ring & the Wallet; The Well-tempered Birdcage; and 50 other card tricks, routines and sleights. The Books of Wonder is a set of two luxuriously produced, matched volumes, each containing approximately 340 pages of extraordinary material with 630 professional illustrations by Kelly Lyles.
	Secrets Of Brother John Hamman $55 From the Introduction: "John Hamman's effects, sleights, and handling of a pack of cards are used by magicians all over the world. He has no use for time-worn sleights — he creates new ones to fit the effects he dreams up. He is truly a titan with a pack of cards. In this book he shares his precious secrets. You may be able to learn them, add them to your repertoire, but there is no way for you to imitate his gentle, quiet, and lovable manner. After all, he is Brother John Hamman." - Gene DeVoe From the Foreword: "I have collected here those tricks and notions that I like, and audiences too. Some of my past material is included here, and some not, because I fell it is now dated or less effective. But what is here comprises a sweep of effects, magical, visual, and entertaining that should give you value for your efforts. Learn them in such a way that you understand them, why the effect is accomplished, not just how. Magic is in the mind of the spectator — mon in your fingers. If you understand what the flimflam is doing to the spectator's imagination, you will magically entertain him. Sleights will not — it's the plot, the visual sting, and the performer. So study the scams that fit your personality, don't just memorize them. They work for me because they are me. Have fun." - Brother John Hamman, S.M. Hardbound and Fully Illustrated Pages 252
	Totally Out of Control Book Chris Kenner $50 Back in Print! Chris Kenner's wacky, off the wall, and insanely informative book Totally Out of Control is back in print! This book not only teaches you some magician fooling magic, but entertains you along the way. This hard bound book contains puzzles for the reader to solve on the way to learning this priceless material. There are thirty truly amazing effects that are explained both verbally and visually.
	PROFESSIONAL SECRETS: A Life in Magic, The first six signed books have all sold - No other signed books will be available- Take a look at his profile Click Here PRE-PUBLICATION OFFER! From February 4th to February 25th, you can buy this great book for $80 + post and packing. Note that due to the cost of getting these from the UK the price has been slightly increased - If you have orderered you will not be charged more for this wonderful book. I highly recommend this book, if you would like one do please order now before the first batch is completely sold out Click for details Read the review by Nicholas Einhorn Click Here
	Scripting Magic $65 by Pete McCabe Pete McCabe and 26 other guys show you the art of scripting magic. Includes 45 scripts, 13 essays, 7 interviews, and 1 flowchart to make you a better magician. Click Here for details Magic Cafe Comments Take a look at this revue Click Here
	Beyond Deception $40 by Tobias Beckwith In Beyond Deception, Tobias Beckwith offers ideas and techniques which performers at all levels can use to create truly original and personalized magic. Drawing on long experience directing and observing world class performers of all kinds, Beckwith has drawn together not only fascinating theories about how a performer creates, but a series of sure-fire techniques and exercises guaranteed to jumpstart each magician's creative process. FROM THE FOREWORD BY BOB FITCH – If you are desperate to create your own special brand of magic, then this book is a must read! It can change your mind about your own abilities. It can motivate you to try harder; to be more freely creative without risking fear of failure; to never say “I can't!” and to have fun doing it. The efforts you put forth following the concepts and exercises in this book will create win-win results for you. So if inspiration and discovery of new ideas are what you're looking for. Look no further! Click for more details
	Revolutionary Card Technique $75 by Ed Marlo Here it is-the legendary Ed Marlo's entire "Revolutionary Card Technique" series all together in one volume! With over 500 pages, more than 1000 illustrations and 14 chapters covering all aspects of advanced manipulation, this is the most complete single reference book on card magic available. It was a classic in its time and is still an essential volume for any serious card worker's library. Newly edited and illustrated for clarity and ease-of-use, the wealth of information contained can elevate your card work to new heights Click for details
	Transformations (Creating Magic Out Of Tricks) $65 by Larry Hass - This is a gem of a book, It is full of secrets - great tricks and thoughtfull scrips - If you love magic you will love this - Graham In Transformations: Creating Magic Out of Tricks, Lawrence Hass uncovers some of the higher secrets for creating strong, entertaining performances of magic. Drawing on over fifteen years of experience as a performer and as an award-winning teacher of college courses on magic performance, Dr. Hass shows that being an excellent magician does not reside in knowing lots of “tricks,” but rather in the thoughtful application of psychological and theatrical principles that transform our best tricks into experiences of magic. As world-famous magician Eugene Burger has said: “This is a wonderful book written by a very talented performer. It is full of secrets. . .that will make you a better, more engaging magician.” Pages 185 - Hard Bound Along with seven clear, engaging essays on magic performance and eleven fully-realized performance pieces from Larry’s repertoire, Transformations also includes a previously unpublished routine by Eugene Burger and forewords by Jeff McBride and Marc DeSouza.
	Herrmann The Magician $60 by H.J. Burlingame BACK IN PRINT! NEW EDITION Magico reprints "Herrmann the Magician - His Life; His Secrets" book. Includes an Introduction to the New Edition by Barrie Richardson. Pages 294 - Hardbound
	Hold Out Miracles $15 by Ed Mishell This is a manual on the Hold-Out, a secret device for vanishing, switching or producing items. This book shows many varieties of the Hold-Out, along with many routines utilizing the device. Pages 66
	Mystery by Association byKenton Knepper $48 A new masterwork from Kenton. Over 100 full size pages on the secret principle of Association and how Kenton and students use this long ignored and mysterious factor. We simply cannot say enough about it, or what it will do for you. Using association causes spectators to stop being spectators. Association actively engages onlookers, causing more of an experience and relationship with your audience. The audience becomes an active force in your performance. They do not feel left out of the act. Click here for details
	Dominatricks (Book With CD) by Tyler Wilson - $60 First 5 orders $50 Dominatricks drips with style. It's stacked with 150 pages of material that professional close-up magician Tyler Wilson uses night after night to transform deafening laughter into stunned silence. You can easily build a close-up / walk-around act on these routines and in fact, you probably will! Published by Andi Gladwin and with a foreword by David Acer, the book is packed full of photographs and has a layout that dares to be different! Also included is a free bonus CD-ROM containing a performance video, bonus material and even a version of the book with the descriptions and photos adapted specifically for left handed magicians! Click for details See what is being said on the Magic Cafe Click here to order
	Abbots Encyclopaedia of Rope tricks $45 Legendary encyclopaedia for magicians contains over 150 tricks: Loop the Loop, Jamison’s Severed Rope, The Tarbell Rope Mystery, The Encore Rope Trick, Eddie Clever Triple Cut Routine, Bachelor’s Needle and many more. Step-by-step instructions and over 500 illustrations show you how to master these dazzling feats. Order Details

	Act Two $49 When Barrie Richardson's Theatre of the Mind was published in 1999, it drew immediate acclaim from mentalists and magicians, professional and amateur alike, and quickly became a bestseller. In it, Richardson, a long-time professional performer and speaker, exhibited an unerring track record for fashioning astonishing effects and routines, dressed in powerful and engaging presentations and supported by ingenious, practical methods. Order Details

	My Canes and Candles - $45 Fantasia's innovative magical inventions have been used for decades now by many of the world's most famous magicians. Now, for the first time, the genius behind the magic explains everything about his brilliant creations in My Canes and Candles. In this beautiful, fully-illustrated volume, you'll learn everything you ever needed to know about Fantasio's appearing and vanishing canes, candles and wands: their care and maintenance, complete effects and routines, and innovative ideas that could only have been thought of by their inventor Order Details

	Mark Wilsons Complete course in magic $35 Master illusionist Mark Wilson has compiled the most comprehensive magic "teach-in" ever assembled. The secrets to more than 300 classic tricks-from sleight of hand to levitation-are carefully explained in this 503-page volume Order Details

	llusiontech $45 Learn how to build illusions for $1 to $10,000 by understanding basic illusion principles. Andrew Mayne's newest book features several new creations along with re-worked classic illusions that help teach you how to think like an illusionist Order Details

	Up In Smoke book - Larry Jennings and Bill Goodwin $55 This Manuscript is a collection of some of Larry Jenning's best effects. Order Details

	Modern Coin Magic $22 The most complete treatise on sleight-of-hand coin conjuring, including best traditional methods and modern innovations. Guides you systematically from basic techniques, through integrated tricks to complete routined acts (18 in all). 510 clear illustrations by Nelson C. Hahne. The best manual for amateurs, an encyclopaedic source for professionals Order Details

	Expert Card Technique $20 Scores of methods ? previously known only to card experts ? include passes, palming, false shuffles, false cuts, changes, crimps, jogs, reverses, rear palms and more. Altogether, 341 sleights and tricks. 318 illustrations show exact position of fingers and hands. Order Details

	The Himber Wallet Book - Harry Lorayne $48 This is a Classic Must Have for all Magicians At this price its a steal. There are many - well, a lot of - standards in magic. There's the double lift, the thumb tip, vanishing and appearing canes, the break, milk pitcher, linking rings, cut and restored rope, cups and balls and more. The most recent standard is, without question, The Himber Wallet. Order Details

	The Discovery of Witchcraft Remarkable 16th-century classic attempted to disprove existence of witches. Rich full account of charges against witches, witch trials, practice of the black arts. Excerpts from Inquisition, interviews with convicted witches, discussions of alchemy, astrology, much more. Indispensable primary source on witchcraft. Introduction by Montague Summers. Order

	My Best Working Card Tricks $10 In this outstanding new collection, an expert presents step-by-step, foolproof instructions for 65 of his most impressive card tricks, guaranteed to work flawlessly and to delight audiences. Mystifying, entertaining illusions include "Prediction Wallet," in which the card a spectator has chosen and signed is found in the magician's wallet; "Suspense," in which a card remains dangling in midair, and many others. Each trick is clearly explained and illustrated, and many include patter and presentation suggestions. Great for magicians at all levels, beginner to expert. 116 pages black-and-white illustrated Order

	Cups and Balls Routine Dennis Loomis $25 25 crystal clear photographs show every detail! A classical routine with traditional props and effects, but with exceptionally clean handling and extreme economy of motion. Table hoppers - this routine resets during performance! The Three Ball Assembly phase is the cleanest ever devised for the Cups and Balls. Order Details

	Card Magic for Amateurs and Professionals $10 Basic text on modern card conjuring describes for specialists and amateurs alike exact methods for perfecting the Instant Reverse, Three Queens Monte, The Ambitious Card, and many other sleights of hand. Also includes advice on manipulation, the art of presentation, audience participation, use of patter, and much else. Clear explanations and detailed drawings enable performers to add polish and excitement to any presentation Order

	Kids think its funny $25 Greg McMahon is one of the true professionals in magic and clowning. He's now revealing some of his best kid-show material in his new book, KIDS THINK IT'S FUNNY. In 27 unique and entertaining chapters, Order Details

	Dream Balloons $25 31 Easy and amazing sculptures and techniques, explained step-by-step with 1100 pictures. Order

	The Award-Winning Rope Magic of Francis Tabary $85 Master one great rope trick and you will have a piece of magical entertainment that will serve you well for the rest of your life under almost any performing conditions. Rope Magic is the ultimate "packs small, plays big" effect. In The Award-Winning Rope Magic of Francis Tabary, not only will you learn the rope routine that won him the title of World Champion, but you will learn enough high-quality, stunning rope magic to keep you busy for a lifetime! Order

	SWITCH - Unfolding The $100 Bill Change by John Lovick $65 Few objects that magicians conjure with stir the imagination the way proper currency does. Money never goes out of style. Imagine being able to increase a dollar's value a hundred-fold. In the 1970s, a handful of American magicians encountered an Eastern European circus performer named Vlado, who stunned them all by doing just that! Vlado never published his revolutionary bill change, but variations quickly spread throughout the world of magic. Today it is a close-up standard, known as the $100 Bill Switch. Order Details

	Mathematical Wizardry $60 by Harry Lorayne How to perform feats of MATHEMATICAL WIZARDRY! They'll marvel at your amazing number tricks, games, lightning calculation, your magical knowledge. They'll think you're a genius! Order Details
	Aronson Approach book S. Aronson $45 Card magic for everyone, from the self-working, hands off Self Control Lie Speller and the two-deck Mix and Match, to the commercial (and ribald) Under Her Spell. Paragon Poker offers a three-phase card cheating demonstration (with an unexpected double climax). Bait and Switch and Four Part Harmony are memorized deck masterpieces, and in his essay Memorized Math Simon continues his trademark in-depth analysis of memorized deck principles. Mark-a-Place Mates offers a flexible utility move, while Active Aces efficiently combines a visual vanish of the Aces with the Henry Christ Fabulous Ace reproduction. The 50 page treatise on the mental blockbuster Simon-Eyes is worth its weight in gold to the performing mentalist...plus Two Minds and a Mate, and lots more. 173 pages Order
	Building A Better Mouse Trap (With CD) $48 by Barry Mitchell Introducing Barry Mitchell's new book which was released at Kidabra. Building A Better Mouse Trap is volume II to Barry Mitchell's popular "Magic of Thinking Creatively" book. Magicians, Clowns, and Story Tellers around the world have been inspired to higher standards of creative entertainment. Order Details

	Psychophysiological Thought Reading $50 by Banachek NOW BACK IN STOCK!!! Literally two books in one! On one side of this 180-page hardcover is a reprint of H.J. Burlingame's 1907 paperback release How to Read People's Minds which includes some history on muscle reading and how it works along with a fascinating section on training your dog to read minds! Then give the book a flip end over end and you have Banachek's Psychophysiological Thought Reading. This section not only covers more details on the history of muscle reading, but also teaches updated effects using muscle reading as it is performed today by performers such as Kreskin, Derren Brown, and of course, Banachek himself, among others. These effects are used onstage and close-up in routined and impromptu performances. Laminated hardcover, 180 6" x 9" pages with new illustrations by Earle Oakes Order Details
	Mind Mysteries Guide Book Vol. 1: The Act by Richard Osterlind “The Mind Mysteries Guide Book will take the thoughtful and diligent student through each of the effects that make up a successful working professional’s act piece by piece, move by move, subtlety by subtlety. The 'real work' oozes out of every pore of this book.” – from the foreword by Jim Sisti Order Details
	Mind Mysteries Guide Book Vol. 2: The Breakthrough Card System by Richard Osterlind $35 “The Breakthrough Card System has built into it a number of absolutely wonderful features that allow you to concentrate on routining. The second volume of the Mind Mysteries videos explored some of those best routines. This guide book sharpens your performance skills and allows you to perform with the deck some of the most astounding mentalism your audiences will ever see.” Order Details
	The Professional Touch, Billy McComb: $99 - Its difficult getting this book, allow 14 days for delivery THE PROFESSIONAL TOUCH BY BILLY McCOMB is back in print again and this time as a hardback. This is a revised edition of the book with a superb introduction by Kirk Charles reproduced with kind permission of the Linking Ring. Order

	Roy Benson By Starlight by Levent and Todd Karr $170 Roy Benson was a legendary performer: a brilliant magician whose ingenious techniques baffled his peers, a superb manipulator, and a daring comedy magician considered far ahead of his time. In Roy Benson by Starlight, you can finally learn his most sought-after secrets. The book includes over fifty incredible effects and sleights, including the famous Benson Bowl Routine, Long Salt Pour, Billiard Balls, Linking Rings, Miser’s Dream, card moves, coin effects, stage magic, close-up, and comedic routines. You'll also learn from Benson’s essays on presentation and showmanship and the complete text of Benson’s lost book The Second Oldest Profession and his scarce Benson on Magic booklet. Roy Benson by Starlight also features a complete biography of Roy Benson and an entire section on Benson's teacher, Nate Leipzig, with twenty Leipzig effects, Leipzig's autobiography, and dozens of rare Leipzig photos. Pages 800 Order
	Jagged Edge by Docc Hilford The Famous author, creator and billet worker, Al Mann said, "You rattled me with your Jagged Edge billet test. It is great and original. I only wish I had it when I wrote The Purloined Thought." Docc Hilford has taken the simplistic course of the Center Tear and given it a new direction. The Jagged Edge allows the Mentalist to know EVERYTHING that is written on a list. Order Details
	Thoughts So Far $80 by Kennedy Over 30 effects, routines and essays from Kennedy's mind. All of the effects within have been tried and tested on real, paying audiences. This material has gained great praise from top professionals around the world. This book contains "no filler" according to Richard Osterlind. Inside you will find: Chair predictions, playing card mentalism, dual reality and pre-show principals and subtleties, two person telepathy effects, metal bending all tried and tested. Order Details
	Sleight Of Mind $75 by Ian Harling and Martin Nyrup SUGGETION AND MIND CONRTROL THE MENTALIST'S TOOLKIT Immaculate Deception... Sleight of Mind is a Mentalist's toolkit of psychological quirks and techniques that anyone can use to enhance their performance and create stunning, original effects. No props and no stooges are required - just observation and the application of simple methods that will change the way you interact with others - on and off stage - forever. With respective backgrounds in Hypnosis and NLP, authors Ian Harling and Martin Nyrup have created an indispensable guide to powerful mental trickery. But this is no dry reference manual; instead you'll find this an entertaining and above all, truthful, explanation of a range of techniques - many of which have remained hidden for years. Covering the use of suggestion, waking hypnosis and NLP methods of creating rapport, reading your subjects thoughts, etc, Sleight of Mind is THE book for Mentalists and Magicians at any level. Order
	Card To Wallet book Jerry Mentzer $45 The Card to Wallet effect is one of the strongest possible close-up effects with cards. Properly performed, it is incomprehensible to spectators. Ungimmicked wallets are featured in one large chapter of the book. Other chapters are devoted to many of the fine gimmicked wallets available including Himber Wallet, Mullica Wallet and LePaul Wallet. Methods described range from those requiring virtually no skill to more advanced methods that require familiarity with basic card handling methods. Hardcover, 166 pages, illustrated Order
	Stunners Plus book Larry Becker $135 Inc Post Two Decades of Mental Magic Larry Becker's magnificent opus, Stunners! was first published in 1992. In 1993 at the Society of American Magicians annual convention in New Orleans, Mr. Becker received the coveted Milbourne Christopher Foundation Literary Award for this Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Mentalism and Magic. Order Details

	Quick Change Book (For Men) by Sven Schoppenhauer - BOOK $85 What People Are Saying: QUICK CHANGE is a book that's truly meant to be used and studied. It's a reference work for anyone looking to add costume changes to their act on any scale. Recommended. - MAGIC Magazine This is the first attempt at a comprehensive study of Quick Change techniques for men's costumes and with little else available at the current time the authors have provided a starting point for anyone looking to add a Quick Change or costume change to their act. - Magicseen Magazine Order Details

	Hauntiques $90 by Christian Chelman Christian Chelman's spectacular new book on bizarre magick is here. 10 years in the making... but now the wait is over! Hauntiques, Christian Chelman's new book on Bizarre Magick, will take you on a journey of discovery through Christian Chelman's fabulous collection of haunted antiques. Order Details

	Psychological Subtleties 2 by Banachek $75 One Book IN STOCK This is the book of the year - It is a Must Have -- Graham Digiquick Psychological Subtleties remains one of the best selling books in the magic and mentalism community and is considered a basic reference source for any complete library on our art. Psychological Subtleties offers ideas, tips and observations of natural human responses that can be inserted into performing situations to make the overall result of an effect much stronger, entertaining and memorable. Several performers incorporated that knowledge into their acts and built whole routines around those clever ideas. Psychological Subtleties 2 picks up where the first book ends. Whereas Psychological Subtleties was not a book of tricks and routines, this book contains complete routines from professionals who understood the value and impact of those ideas in the first book. Pages 203 - Hardbound Order Details

	Simple And Direct (SAD) Mentalism $80 by Loach An important book of practical, simple and direct mentalism. Order Details

	The Cups And Balls for beginners $15 For centuries, the Cups and Balls has fascinated audiences and magicians alike. The trick ahs been featured by nearly every great performer in the history of the art, in nearly every venue, from street corners to Broadway theaters. It is likely the most popular magic trick of all time. The set includes Royal Cups and Balls set and book Inside this booklet you will learn through clear, step-by-step instructions, the essentials of this fascinating effect. Methods and moves for beginners - easy for anyone to learn - are taught alongside intermediate and advanced sleight of hand techniques. Dai Vernon's classic, "Impromptu Cups and Balls Routine," recognized as a modern magical classic, is described in minute detail as well. You will learn: False Transfers, Complete Routines, How to Select the Proper Equipment, Loading Techniques, How to Construct Patter, To Develop a Unique Performance, How to Misdirect an Audience, and more. In short, the Cups and Balls is a complete lesson in sleight of hand. It's time to get to work! "The Cups and Balls carries a stunning impact. It makes an impression, a lasting impression...It has evolved into the magician's 'perfect' trick...It is no small wonder that this uncomplicated illusion has been around for two millenia." Order

	E'voque $35 by Docc Hilford A specator chooses any number of dissimilar objects (usually around seven) and lays them in a row. A second participant looks over the group of items and jots down the name of one of them on a piece of paper. The first person is instructed to make several choices concerning the items. Half of them are eliminated, then a couple more are discarded. Finally, one object remains and it matches the item the second person chose before any objects were removed! This is an incredibly powerful effect. You'll have to hear the gasps of amazement and see the sparkle in the eyes of your audience for yourself. Order

	Power Plays - High Voltage Magic $56 by Mike Powers Digiquick is Gob Smacked with this book - If you are not delighted with it we will fully refund your money View Clip Take a look at the reviews on the Magic Cafe If you purchase this book click here for information on Flipper Coins and an additional routine Order Details

	Mentalism Incorporated Volume 2 book, Chuck Hickok $55 Mentalism, Incorporated: Volume Two continues and expands upon the philosophy and perspectives presented in the highly acclaimed Mentalism, Incorporated. The purpose of this book is to help the reader become a better, more entertaining mentalist. Volume Two combines proven suggestions for performing mentalism along with easy to learn routines. Volume Two begins with the first serious examinations of forces for mentalism in fifty years along with six strategies for effectively using forces in a mentalism act. Order Details

	Tangled Web by Eric Mead - Book $58 In this first major book by one of the United States' most respected professionals, Eric Mead covers a wide range of magic and mentalism, drawn completely from his professional repertoire and fine-tuned by performance after performance to its present form. Bar Magic, Close-up Magic, Strolling Magic, Mentalism, Stage--even two pieces for kids (we're serious) Details Order

	Designing Miracles $60 by Darwin Ortiz In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them. Darwin has earned a reputation for creating some of the strongest card effects in modern magic. In Designing Miracles, he reveals for the first time the principles and techniques that he follows in doing so. These insights will help you choose stronger effects, create stronger effects, and strengthen those effects that you've already performing. If you've ever been puzzled by an audience's reaction or lack of it, this book will dispel the mystery. It gives you a new set of tools for understanding how magic works, why it sometimes doesn't, and how to make it work better. Never again will you be at a loss as to why an effect isn't playing well. Never again will you be at a loss as to what to do about it. If your goal is to provide your audiences with an unforgettable experience of impossibility, you'll find Designing Miracles filled with insights to help you do so. It will teach you how to use the audience's own thinking patterns against them. It will show you how to turn puzzles into miracles. It will do something that few magic books can: change with way you think about magic. Pages 200 - Hardcover

	Card College Light $58 by Roberto Giobbi *This Is Not Your Father's "Self-Working" Card Book!* From the author of Card College, the world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill. Pages 170 - Hardcover Details

	Designing Miracles - Collector's Edition $130 by Darwin Ortiz *The Most Important Book On Magic Theory Since Strong Magic!* In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them. Darwin has earned a reputation for creating some of the strongest card effects in modern magic. In Designing Miracles, he reveals for the first time the principles and techniques that he follows in doing so. These insights will help you choose stronger effects, create stronger effects, and strengthen those effects that you've already performing. If you've ever been puzzled by an audience's reaction or lack of it, this book will dispel the mystery. It gives you a new set of tools for understanding how magic works, why it sometimes doesn't, and how to make it work better. Never again will you be at a loss as to why an effect isn't playing well. Never again will you be at a loss as to what to do about it. If your goal is to provide your audiences with an unforgettable experience of impossibility, you'll find Designing Miracles filled with insights to help you do so. It will teach you how to use the audience's own thinking patterns against them. It will show you how to turn puzzles into miracles. It will do something that few magic books can: change with way you think about magic. "Here we have an outstanding new book by one of the modern-day masters of card magic, Darwin Ortiz. Darwin lays out a new way ofl looking at how the mind is fooled. You will look at magic effects differently, and your thinking about magic will be stimulated and challenged. Without studying the principles set forth in this book, no magical education can be complete. Books like Designing Miracles, and Strong Magic that came before it, are more rare and important today than ever before." - Whit Haydn (From introduction) Darwin Ortiz is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading sleight-of-hand performers with playing cards. He is also the author of some of the most popular and important books on magic ever published, including the best-selling book, STRONG MAGIC. He also serves as an international consultant to the casino industry on the prevention and detection of cheating. His eleven DVDs and six books, including Darwin Ortiz on Card Cheating and Gambling Scams, are widely used as reference and training tools in casinos throughout the world, and he is called to testify as an expert witness in casino cheating cases. As an entertainer and expert consultant, Darwin has performed on every continent except Antarctica. Pages 200 - Hardcover - Collector's Edition: Signed and Numbered out of 100, Slip-case. Order

	The Art of Astonishment - 3 Books $175 The Complete, Ultimate Paul Harris Collection This three-volume set of books contains all of Paul`s classics, updated and refined, as well as 73 brand-new creations! All in all, these books contain over 900 pages of Paul Harris including a ground-breaking essay discussing the feeling of astonishment as our natural state of mind. There are also six conversations with Eric Mead about effects that are too weird even for Paul. Three Hardbound Volumes Each Containing Over 300 Pages A Total of 222 Effects 73 Brand New Creations "Sooner or later you`re going to have to buy these books. Very highly recommended!"- Michael Close Magic Cafe Comments Order

	Safety Pin Trix $28 Book by Jerry Andrus The Classic Book of Safety Pin Magic is back in print! Safety Pin-Trix by Jerry Andrus has the best selection of tricks & routines for gaffed & non-gaffed safety pins! J.B. Bobo said in his introduction that many of the effects look like real magic! This is realized by performing many of the effects in a spectator’s hands! Includes a chapter with lots of great tricks with ungaffed pins. Over 40 routines and moves, 135 illustrations. Order Pins are not included.


	Cheating... And The World Of Poker by Steve Forte - Book $58 Poker, America's Favorite pastime, has never been more popular! As with all gambling games, there's always the risk of being exposed to cheating. Poker Protecton - Cheating and the World of Poker is the first, modern treatment of cheating and its impact on the game. Based on decades of extensive research, Poker Protection is an indispenssable tool that belongs in the hands of every player, dealer, and cardroom executive. Here are just a few of the many topics presented. History of Cheating Cheating in the Cardrooms The Industry Evolves Professionals and Amateur Cheaters Elements of the Scam Cheater's Psychology Signals Crooked Gambling Equiptment Suckers Collusion False Shuffles and Related Scams Holding Out Peeks, False Deals, and Coolers Marked Cards Online Poker Tournaments Poker's Line of Defense Game Procedures Detection Skills Identifying the Crooked Game Protecting Yourself The Future of Poker Pages 360 - Hard Bound

	Unconventional by Christopher Taylor - Book $35 Effect Canadian mentalist Christopher Taylor’s new book, Unconventional, follows in the path of his highly praised first book, Inside Out. In the new book you will encounter more of the practical ideas for which Taylor is becoming known. Here you’ll find a means for determining a spectator’s mentally selected card, ala Vernon’s classic Out of Sight, Out of Mind. It’s even more effective when done with two spectators! Taylor also explores how to use the Classic Force with non-card objects, extensions of secret writing and pocket writing, a new routine for the pocket press (one of the most popular routines from his first book), and uses for the commercial effect Ghost Glass. Several of the routines use Runes, for which Taylor gives many presentational ideas. Pages 89 - Soft Bound
	Fetsching Magic $60 by Robert Spencer With great pleasure and pride, MAGICO presents Fetsching Magic: The Life and Legacy of Hen Fetsch by Robert Kirkwood Spence. Here is a long overdue testimonial to the untold influence of a gifted Twentieth Centrury magician's magician, who might well be called "The Father of the Modern Magic Lecture." Pages 206 - Hard Bound
	Best Of Friends Vol. 3 $85 by Harry Lorayne 20 Years in the making now yields volume 3 of Harry Lorayne's Best of Friends. Some of the contributors in this volume are: Allan Ackerman, Richard Vollmer, Max Maven, J.K. Hartman, Peter Duffie, Michael Ammar, David Regal, Martin Nash, Joshua Jay, Howie Scharzman, Bob Farmer, Simon Lovell, Aldo Colombini, Doug Edwards, Jeff Altman, Nick Pudar, Sol Stone, Paul Gordon, Kostya Kimlat, Gregory Wilson, Ian Baxter, Bob King, Joe Rindfleisch, Justin Higham, Michael Vincent, Steve Cohen, Tony Noice, Tom Craven, Randy Wakeman, Harry Lorayne…and more! Pages 522 - Hardbound
	WD40 by Wayne Dobson $60 WD40 contains 40 great tricks from Wayne's own professional repertoire, and more than a quarter of them have never been published before. The tricks are real crackers and not too difficult to perform. "Wayne's tricks are brilliant!" says magicseen editor Mark Leveridge, "they do not contain difficult sleights - but are so clever and get maximum audience reaction." Wayne's book is available in both semi-hardback and a limited edition hardback versions. Please also note that the book is for ADULTS ONLY as it contains strong language!! Click for a review Click here to order
	Maurice Fogel - In Search Of The Sensational - $80 by Chris Woodward and Richard Mark When magicians caught a bullet in their teeth... He caught six! When magicians did spook shows... His ghosts were nude! When magicians did rope tricks... He put a noose around his neck and jumped! When magicians predicted a chosen number... He predicted which of six rifles should be aimed at his forehead! He was Maurice Fogel, the twentieth century’s most audacious mentalist and one of its greatest showmen. His feats of mind reading captured headlines around the world—when he wasn’t predicting them. He dared death, he read minds and he became a legend in his own time.
	Theatrical Magic by John Pyka $55 A Magician is an actor playing the part of a magician…. Famous words, a famous quote. Too seldom do performers understand and use this philosophy! In this book, John Pyka uses his character Big Daddy Cool, and other original magical routines to teach you the premise and process of taking your magic from the realm of a puzzle, and making it in to THEATER! You can view a sample HERE.
	New Animations book by Michael Ching $60 This incredibly thorough publication provides you with everything you need to know about the "Dancing Handkerchief" effect. This work includes chapters on the history of the effect, the materials required for the construction of the effect, stage craft, versions of the effect from some of the best in magic, and several "New Animations" of this magic staple. Artists Featured Include: - Harry Blackstone & Harry Blackstone Jr. - Leon Mandrake - John Calvert - Ralph Adams - Jeff McBride - Charles Reynolds - Karrel Fox - Gary Darwin - Harry Lovecraft - Russel Brown - The Great Leon
	The Book Of Haunted Magick $45 by Rick Maue This book contains a total of fifty items,including routines, utility moves, & essays. Many of the items can be used for intimate close-up performances or for larger stage shows. Regardless of what type of audience that you perform for, you will find material in "The Book Of Haunted Magick" that you can add to your working repertoire right away. Here are a few Examples: Intersection - A direct prediction that requires no forcing or sleight-of-hand, and it certainly "packs flat and plays big." Truth Of The Relic - The performer is able to determine who possesses a specific item, without the use of gimmicks, peeks, or sleight-of-hand Drawn Together - A strong test of telepathy that involves a number of audience members. Beads Of Destiny - A magical Tarot reading that provides a keepsake for the participant. Dyadic Thoughts - A test with ESP symbols that demonstrates telepathy & clairvoyance. Beyond TheWitching Hour - The hands of a timepiece move with the aid of the spirits. Numerology - Two participants unlock the future for themselves & the performer. CSR - A deceptive utility move with Tarot Cards, ESP cards, or a standard deck. Terasabos - A strong non-gimmicked, non-sleight demonstration of apparent psychic abilities. Also included is a special section that features photos & routines from our dark attraction,The Haunted Chamber. Each routine can be modified to fit almost any performance style including mentalism, HauntedMagick, or standard magic.There is truly something for everyone in "The Book Of Haunted Magick" Pages 188 - Spiral Bound