When The Long Trick’s Over


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I'm doing this for her because this was my sister's dream. This isn't my natural habitat. I wouldn't normally choose this. But she would have. Two sisters. One dream. The hardest open-water swim in the world. This triumphant play from Olivier Award-winning writer Morgan Lloyd Malcolm moves forwards and backwards in time across the 21 miles between Dover and Calais as a young swimmer harnesses her mind and body to make the crossing. Tackling what it means to grieve, both physically and mentally, When The Long Trick's Over encapsulates the fact that love persists whatever the distance and however perilous the journey is to the other side. And that, sometimes, it means swimming against the tide and against the things that hold you back: the old memories and oil tankers, jelly fish and Jelly Babies. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere production by HighTide and the New Wolsey Theatre, February 2022.




Tricks


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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don’t expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words “I love you” are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story—a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, “Can I ever feel okay about myself?” A brilliant achievement from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins—who has been called “the bestselling living poet in the country” by Mediabistro.com—Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Just like so much of life.




Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks


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Hundreds of tricks for amateurs and professionals alike -- from relatively complex maneuvers involving mathematical calculation to simple tricks for beginners such as "The Traveling Ace."




A Bag of Tricks


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Table of Contents How to Balance Glass on Playing Card How 'Spirit Trick' Is Performed With Names Written in Squares How to Transfer a Coin From One Hand to Another How to Tell Card Taken From Pack by Trick 'Spirit Writing* How to Dip Hand Into Water and Take It Out Dry Trouble to Spin an Egg Magician Lindhorst's Method How to Remove Dime Under Glass Without Touching Either Magician Tells How to Hang Hat on Wall Without Nail or Hook How to Invert Glass of Water Without Spilling It How to Tell in Which Hand Coin Is Concealed How to Fill Glass Twice Without Emptying First Contents Tells How to Blow Candle Out Through Bottle Here's How You Can Add Five Matches to Six and Make Nine Magician Tells How to Change Pack of Cards from Black to Red Trick of Unsmashable Match Box Trick of Swallowing a Knife Magician Tells How Ringand Cord Trick Is Worked Three Matches Can Be Lifted With One How to Make a Dime Disappear How You Can Smoke a Pipe Without Lighting It Magician Tells How to Grasp Two Corks Between Fingers How to Make an Ace Disappear in Deck Taking a Coin from Under a Hat Without Touching Hat—Yourself Magician Explains How to Change Playing Card Into Box of Matches How to Balance Two Coins Between Your Fingers Rubber Sponge Used to Perform Magic in Hand of Spectator Tells How to Find a Selected Card in a Pack Magician Breaks Stick Held Up By Paper Suspended on Knives Clever Trick Performed With Ordinary Ruler How to Get Water Into Glass When It Is Held Upside Down Walking Hair Pin Trick Is Done With Knife and Quiver of Hand Magician Makes a Cane Dance Apparently Without Support How to Pick Up Five Bricks With One Hand Explained by Magician Paper Placed Over Board Defies Attempt to Move It With Blow How to Write Spectator's Initial on Cube and Then Make Letter Appear in How To Make Needle Float in Glass of Water Tiny Card Standing on Edge Defies Effort to Blow It Over Tells How to Make a Boomerang Circle Room and Land at the Feet The Magic Egg, a Clever Trick How to Light Candle Without Touching Flame to Its Wick How to Knock a Card Through Table How to Get a Loose Cork Out of Bottle Without Touching Either How to Break Pencil With Dollar Bill Did You Know That a Child Can Step Through a Playing Card? Thread Supporting a Ring Can Be Burned but Still Hold It Suspended Mysterious No. 3 Almost Always Chosen From List Marked 1,2,3, 4 How to Fill a Tobacco Can Twice Without Emptying First Contents Card Can Be Taken From Under Quarter Without Moving the Coin It's Easy to Make a Dime on Plate Vanish, Then Find It Underneath How to Place Spoon in a Glass Without Touching Either Foretelling the Ending Numbers in a Domino Game Is Simple Trick How to Perform Trick of the Mesmerized Ring Much more...




The Book of Card Tricks - For Drawing-Room and Stage Entertainments


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This book comprises a practical treatise on the art of conjuring with cards, including detailed instructions and handy tips on mastering a variety of baffling card tricks. Complete easy-to-follow instructions and simple illustrations, this text is ideal for the novice magician and is not to be me missed by the discerning collector. The chapters of this text include: 'Principles of Sleight of Hand', 'Sleight of Hand Tricks', 'Tricks with Ordinary Cards not Requiring Sleight of Hand', 'Tricks Requiring the Use of Prepared Cards or Sleight of Hand', 'Tricks Requiring Mechanical Cards or the Employment of Special Apparatus', and 'Card Sharper's Tricks'. We are proudly republishing this antique book now complete with a new introduction on card tricks.




Latest Magic, Being original conjuring tricks


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"Latest Magic, Being original conjuring tricks" by Professor Hoffmann Professor Hoffmann was the pseudonym of Angelo John Lewis, an English-born barrister and writer who has been described as "the most prolific and influential magic author and translator until modern times." In this book, he looks at what were, at the time, some of the newest tricks in the magic field. He describes new props, ways of doing sleight of hand, card tricks, and more to help readers understand the inner workings of magic shows and learn how to perform them for themselves.




Card Tricks - A Practical Treatise on Conjuring with Cards


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From the PREFACE. TRICKS with cards are ever popular, and are within the reach of every one who cares to devote a little time to the study of sleight of hand. Who has not watched in speechless wonderment, and longed to emulate the nimble-fingered professor IS he takes the cards in his hand and causes them to pass thence, invisibly, along his sleeve and finally alight on his white shirt front; or as he throws a card some twenty feet in the air, at an angle of 45 degrees, and causes it to return to his hand, which, during the flight of the card, has seized a pair of scissors with which the card is now severed in twain? Much that is new appertaining to conjuring with cards has appeared of late years, which, together with a number of simple tricks of sufficient interest to keep the neophyte engrossed in the early stages of his career, it will be the province of the author in the following pages to reveal.







Tricks with Finesses


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"The Bridge Technique Series is designed to take the reader through the most important aspects of card-play technique at bridge. Each book of the series focuses on a different topic, and wherever possible the tactics and strategy are considered from the point of view of both declarer and defenders. Many players know little more about the finesse other than how to handle an A-Q combination. This book covers the more complex finessing situations, including double finesses, two-way finesses, and the intra-finesse. Tricks with Finesses discusses how declarers can avoid finesses, how to choose among different finesse options as well as offering tips to defenders on how to lead declarer astray."--Back cover