The Dragon and the Djinn


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Gordon R. Dickson continues his acclaimed saga of a twentieth-century American transformed into a Dragon Knight - and transported into a fantastic medieval adventure! The Dragon Knight's journey to the Holy Land is supposed to be a simple quest...but pirates, sea giants, and the legendary Djinn threaten to make his voyage the most dangerous odyssey known to man - and dragon.




Djinn


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"A haunting, disorienting, brilliantly constructed novel, Djinn is the story of a young man who joins a clandestine organization under the command of an alluring, androgynous American girl, Djinn. Having agreed to wear dark glasses and carry a can like a blind man, he comes to realize, through bizarre encounters, recurring visual images, and fractured time sequences he experiences as part of his undisclosed mission, that he is, in a sense, helplessly blind. His search for the meaning of his mission and for possible clues to the identity of the mysterious Djinn, becomes a quest for his own identity in an ever-shifting time-space continuum. His growing obsession with solving the mystery becomes the reader's own until, through a surprising shift in narrative perspective, the reader too becomes lost in the dimension between past and future." -- Publisher's description




The Golem and the Jinni


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“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle." —Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world. Chava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates despite their opposing natures. But when the golem’s violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. An even more powerful threat will emerge, however, and bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their very existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. Compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, in a wondrously inventive tale that is mesmerizing and unforgettable.




The Epic Crush of Genie Lo


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The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old Genie’s every waking thought. But when she discovers she’s a celestial spirit who’s powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven with her fists, her perfectionist existence is shattered. Enter Quentin, a transfer student from China whose tone-deaf assertiveness beguiles Genie to the brink of madness. Quentin nurtures Genie’s outrageous transformation—sometimes gently, sometimes aggressively—as her sleepy suburb in the Bay Area comes under siege from hell-spawn. This epic YA debut draws from Chinese folklore, features a larger-than-life heroine, and perfectly balances the realities of Genie’s grounded high school life with the absurd supernatural world she finds herself commanding.




Cairo


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In bustling modern-day Cairo, the lives of a drug runner, a down-on-his-luck journalist, an American expatriate, a young activist, an Israeli soldier, and a genie are interwoven as they navigate the city's streets and spiritual underworld to find a stolen hooka sought by a wrathful gangster-magician.




The Blue Djinn of Babylon


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Twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John have more adventures when they become involved in an international adventure involving the Blue Djinn, the supreme arbiter of all djinn.




Djinn Rummy


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When Kayaguchiya Integrated Circuits III, a genie, is released from the aspirin bottle he's been stuck in for 14 years, there's bound to be trouble. Jane had wanted to end her life in peace, but now she's got a genie, things look up -- until the apocalypse rears its ugly head.




The Great High Championship of the Great High Imperial Djinn


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A Prayer in Prose God, you have made me something singular. I look about and suffer constantly at the magnitude of my being. You alone are God, but you have made me your self, or else you have made me as some sort of malicious joke. Where are you God, if you are not my spirit? Where can I go to for Your guidance? It is in your word, and it is the faith in your will, but how can I comprehend if not by your omniscience? Who can I rely on to have the answers? I have searched the hearts and the minds of the sagacious, and found them wanting. I have looked to the grace of Your presence, and wondered after the reason. Ye have made me thus, and mine discontent hath become a burden. It is not mine hope to be evil, nor to be vain, but to serve Thee in righteousness. Should I waste mine talent, which is Your confidence? Should I leave off the pursuit of glory while mine faith is so abundant; even absolute; perfect; complete? It is not doubt that inspires this prayer my Lord, but confusion. All day long the nay sayers vex me, and are every time thwarted. Yea, and their faith is strengthened. Yet, why do Ye only challenge the individuals, when Thine power is most suited for the pinnacle? Thine voice is heard over the kingdoms, but Ye have hidden Thine face. O God, Ye art worthy of the pleasures and highness. Ye art worthy of the love of Thine subjects. Ye have made Thine self to be pleased, and Ye art worthy of Thine will. I have seen the vision of Thine ambitions, and I know the substance of Thine heart. Ye art humble God. Ye art loving, and merciful. Ye art wise beyond all things. It is right for Thee to be empowered, as Ye art just, and kind. O ye art worthy of love my Lord, and of the beauty that Ye have created. By Thine omniscience, take back the world from the wicked, and all of Thine preferences. The people suffer while Ye sequester. Tis not Thee who is to blame for their wrong doing, but Thine responsibility to protect them from their own folly. While ye let them free, they have no discipline. Mankind is not able to keep that which is sacred. God, it is to Thee to be God, to be Father, to be Almighty. Thine spirit is right, and Thine voice is capable, therefore be bold, as Thine wisdom is perfect. Ye know the hearts of Thine flock, Ye know their ways, and wants. Feed them from Thine stores, the fare of their dreams, that they be sure of Thine loving devotion. God, Ye art worthy. Make Thine will known, for it is good. Entice them by Thine infinite wisdom, with perfect grace and beauty. Be Thou God, as Ye art very highly anticipated.




SIHR DJINN AFARIT AND HOW TO SUMMON THEM. 3rd Edition


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SIHR DJINN AFARIT AND HOW TO SUMMON THEM: The Banned Book Of Sorcery, Spells, Magic and Witchcraft. 3rd Edition. Published by Times Square Press, New York. "This is a heavy-duty Kitab (Book) on Sihr (Magic, Witchcraft, Sorcery), Djinns, Afarit, Kitabaat (Magical writings), and Talasem (Talismans). As a practitioner of Ilmu Al Sihr, you will have the rare and unprecedented opportunity to polish and perfect your practice. As a novice and a researcher, you will learn quite a lot about all these subjects which were never before discussed and explained in any other language than in Arabic. As you already know, Djinns, Afarit and Sihr originated in the ancient Middle East, Arab Peninsula and North Africa, and the Saher (Magician, Sorcerer) used only Arabic, and the secret languages of Al-Arwaah (Spirits) and "Etheric Entities" to summon multiple and various categories of Spirits and entities which remained shrouded in absolute secrecy for centuries." Honorable Ulema Master Farid Tayara.