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    The New Adventures of Diamondstone the Magician , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 258min
    There's a full house...the lights are dimmed...the audience is seated...and the best seat in the house is saved for you - in the front row - for The New Adventures of Diamondstone the Magician from Pulp Obscura, by Pro Se Productions in conjunction with Altus Press! Created by master pulp author G. T. Fleming, Diamondstone the Magician was a seasoned sleight-of-hand artist and stage illusionist who dabbled in the investigation of crime as an amateur detective. Aided by his friend and assistant, Absalom, Diamondstone uses his skills, tricks, and wits to confound, confuse, and capture criminals who believe that they can outsmart justice using smoke and mirrors! From out of the past comes new tales of the magician sleuth written by Chuck Miller, Russ Anderson, Jr., Lee Houston, Jr., and Nicholas Ahlhelm. Watch as Diamondstone gives some of his finest performances ever as he steps into the spotlight to solve strange cases and exciting new mysteries in The New Adventures of Diamondstone the Magician from Pulp Obscura! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: 5395 MEDIA LLC. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/084887/bk_acx0_084887_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, David Thomson and Ricky Jay, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min
    Film critic and historian David Thomson and sleight of hand expert and actor Ricky Jay on this edition of Fresh Air. David Thomson's latest book is The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. It is an updated version of his Biographical Dictionary of Film, which was first published in 1975. Some of the entries from the Dictionary have been revised and new entries have been added. Thomson has taught film studies at Dartmouth College and has served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic, and The Independent. Ricky Jay's new book is Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck. It's a collection of essays about the history of dice and the many ways of cheating at the game. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell accompany the text. The New York Times says of Jay, "He's a master's master." His other books include Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. He's appeared in a number of David Mamet films and his one-man shows include Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, and Ricky Jay: On the Stem. (Broadcast Date: December 2, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/021202/rt_whyy_021202_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, David Denby and Rosemond Purcell, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min
    Staff writer and film critic for The New Yorker David Denby, and artist, photographer, and writer Rosemond Purcell on this edition of Fresh Air. Denby's new book, American Sucker, is a memoir about his brief obsession with the stock market during the height of irrational exuberance in 2000-2001. It started with his wife's announcement that she was leaving him. Denby began an attempt to make a million dollars so that he could buy out his wife's share of their New York apartment. Rosemond Purcell has been called the "doyenne of decay" by sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay. Purcell photographed the decaying dice in his recent collection Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck. Purcell's new book, Owls Head, is about her 20-year friendship with William Buckminster, an eccentric collector whose dilapidated antiques shop and 11-acre junkyard in Maine became something of a tourist attraction. Buckminster sold many of his items to Purcell who took them home and photographed them in large-format Polaroids. She's also collaborated three times on books with the late paleontologist and science historian Stephen Jay Gould. (Broadcast Date: February 2, 2004) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/040202/rt_whyy_040202_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Magic Show , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 786min
    Magic or miracles?Gilbert Gilbertson, an inept magic clown whose biggest gigs are kids' birthday parties, suddenly develops skills in sleight-of-hand and stage illusions that confound expert magicians. He also begins affecting people in strange ways, as well as winning staggering amounts of money in Las Vegas, which he donates to the Catholic Church.Jack Madison, an agnostic neurologist, debunker of miracles, and best-selling author, is asked to investigate the matter of Gilbert the Magic Clown. In pursuing the mystery, Jack becomes the unlikely partner of Joan Firestone, a beautiful Las Vegas detective and expert in casino fraud.Enter a far-right fringe group within the Catholic Church, convinced that Gilbert is working legitimate miracles - miracles they believe will convince Catholics to return to more conservative ways. Jack and Joan land at the top of the group's hit list as they try to figure out how Gil Gilbertson does what he does.Things culminate in the closing act of a Las Vegas magician's convention, when Gilbert performs what all agree is the greatest magic act of all time - a magic act that has unexpected and dire repercussions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Ferrone. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/012873/bk_blak_012873_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air, Gretchen Worden and Ricky Jay, Hörbuch, Digital, 50min
    Gretchen Worden, Director of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and sleight of hand expert and actor Ricky Jay on this edition of Fresh Air. Worden has put together a book of photographs of and from the museum's collection of human oddities and outdated medical models. It is one of the last medical museums from the nineteenth century. It originated with the collection of Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter who gathered unique specimens for teaching purposes. The museum displays many strange human artifacts, such as a slice of a face, amputated limbs, deformed fetuses and a plaster cast of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker.Jay's recent book, Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck, is a collection of essays about the history of dice and the many ways of cheating at the game. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell accompany the text. The New York Times says of Jay, "He's a master's master." His other books include Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. He's appeared in a number of David Mamet films and his one man shows include Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants and Ricky Jay: On the Stem. (Original Broadcast Dates: November 5, 2002 and December 2, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/030827/rt_whyy_030827_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Queen's Sceptre , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 216min
    At nine years old, Joey is way too grown-up for make-believe. But when he agrees to participate once more in a pretend adventure cooked up by his oddball dad, he stumbles across a mysterious artifact that pits him against an unscrupulous foe.... In David Marcus Gibson's pitch-perfect narration of Robbie Scott's latest work, The Queen's Sceptre, the nine year old point-of-view animates everyday life with the magic and wonder it always deserved. Adventure tale or epic quest - this is the story of Joey (who's in the fourth grade after all, and still struggles with reading), his father Ethan-il-Fabuloso (a practitioner of sleight-of-hand who can't hold a steady job), and best friend Gloria (who's good at absolutely everything). Ride the high-voltage rails of imagination, public transit, and heroic works, as three friends take on the ambitious Professor, in a lightning-fueled battle of wits for control of the mysterious "energy of the heavens" - and who knows, perhaps pick up a little wisdom along the way about life, loss, and what really matters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Marcus Gibson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042619/bk_acx0_042619_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fresh Air Archive: David Thomson and Ricky Jay, Hörbuch, Digital, 46min
    Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with film critic and historian David Thomson and sleight of hand expert and actor Ricky Jay British from Audible's Fresh Air archive. Last year, David Thomson's released The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, an updated version of his Biographical Dictionary of Film, which was first published in 1975. Some of the entries from the Dictionary have been revised and new entries have been added. Thomson has taught film studies at Dartmouth College and has served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic, and The Independent. Ricky Jay's book Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck is a collection of essays about the history of dice and the many ways of cheating at the game. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell accompany the text. The New York Times says of Jay, "He's a master's master." His other books include Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. He's appeared in a number of David Mamet films and his one-man shows include Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, and Ricky Jay: On the Stem. (Original Broadcast Date: December 2, 2002) Language: English. Narrator: Terry Gross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/whyy/031225/rt_whyy_031225_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dark Circus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 586min
    Seeing is believing in the Dark Circus, where truth and illusion collide, and where the heart of a holy conspiracy pounds... At an art auction in Madrid, Elías Segado, a religious art appraiser and detective, is getting ready to secure a painting for the bishop of Cartagena. But in a brilliant sleight of hand, the iconic work is stolen, drawing Elías into the confidence of its corrupt and seductive thief. Her name is L. Raised by her uncle in a threadbare circus, she lived by the twisted rules of the carnies she grew up with. Exploited for public awe, and ritually abused for private pleasure, L came to endure all that was encouraged by the circus's perverted sense of righteousness. Debauchery is the only thing she trusts. But behind the curtains of the Dark Circus is a greater secret to be avenged. And she needs Elías Segado to help expose it. As their worlds of sacrilege and devotion collide, so do temptation and indulgence - and a faith in both good and evil, where morality is just another illusion. But to survive the mystery, Elías must also dare to accept something more shattering: everything he and L have in common. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/009805/bk_brll_009805_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Six of Hearts , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 644min
    Step right up and meet Jay Fields: Illusionist. Mentalist. Trickster. I think in triangles. You think in straight lines. I show you a table and make you believe it's a chair. Smoke and mirrors, sleight of hand, misdirection. I trick and deceive. But most of all, I put on a good show. The world thinks I killed a man, but I didn't. Bear with me. It's all a part of the plan. Revenge is what I want. I want it for me, and I want it for her. I want it for all six of us. She doesn't remember me, but she's the reason for everything. She'll be my prize at the end of all this - if I can hold onto my willpower, that is. Maybe I'll slip up a little, have a taste, just a small one. So go ahead and pick a card. Come inside and see the show. Look at my hands, look so closely that you can't see what's happening while you're so focused on looking. I'll be destroying your world from right here in the spotlight. You'll never see me coming until it's too late. I've only got one heart, and after I've pulled off my grand deception, I'll hand it right to her. So, sit back, relax, and let my girl tell you our story. You're in for one hell of a ride. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Donna Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/048762/bk_acx0_048762_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Arts, Tarts, and Gypsy Carts: A Cozy Witch Mystery: Spells & Caramels, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 388min
    A carnival bakery booth. A deadly magic show. Is it the perfect recipe for murder or a clever sleight of hand? Palace pastry chef Imogen is struggling to control her newfound magic and her potent feelings for the prince. So when the carnival rolls into the kingdom, she jumps at the chance to run the royal bakery booth. But her plan to escape her problems backfires when murder rocks the magician’s table, and her dear friend is found holding the bloody saw.Determined to cook up a way to keep Rhonda out of witch’s prison, she sifts through the clues and the long list of suspects. Between devious dark magicians, cagey stage assistants, and a strongman with more to offer than just muscles, everyone at the fairgrounds seems to be hiding secrets - even Rhonda.With the final night of the carnival approaching, will Imogen’s shaky powers be enough to flush out the murderer before her good friend ends up on the chopping block? Black Arts, Tarts, and Gypsy Carts is the second book in the Spells and Caramels paranormal cozy mystery series. If you like feisty heroines, enchanted carnivals, and dueling magicians, then you’ll love Erin Johnson’s whimsical whodunit. Buy Black Arts, Tarts, and Gypsy Carts to fall under the spell of a festive mystery today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hannah Somerville. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152079/bk_acx0_152079_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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