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Booked for the Summer with Allan Zola Kronzek
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We are super excited for our first summer here at B&N Bridgehampton! We’re planning a month-long event called “Booked for the Summer.” We want to help our customers kickoff their summer the right way by having their favorite authors here at our new store every Saturday and Sunday for the month of June. Join Us!
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Allan Zola Kronzek is a professional magician and educator who lectures on the history of magic and conjuring. A frequent visiting artist at elementary and middle schools, he is the author of A Book of Magic for Young Magicians: The Secrets of Alkazar & the New York Times bestseller The Sorcerer's Companion—A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter (which he coauthored with his daughter, Elizabeth who is a writer, editor, and historian. She holds a master’s degree in Renaissance history from Princeton University.
From a professional magician and New York Times bestselling
author, 116 tricks, stunts, and brainteasers that will engage the
grandchildren and provide giggles, jaw-dropping awe, and wonderful
memories.
Guaranteed to make grandparenting even more fun, Grandpa Magic is
sure to entertain—and crack up—the grandkids. From the old
pull-a-quarter-from-behind-a-kid’'s-ear trick and “removing your thumb”
to card tricks, stunts for the dinner table, and verbal puzzles that
surprise and delight, there’s something for everyone. Step-by-step
illustrations make them easy to learn.
The New York Times bestseller, now fully updated to include the complete seven-volume series.
Who
was the real Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer’s Stone get its
power? Did J. K. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive
veela, or the vicious grindylow? And if she didn’t, who did?
Millions
of readers around the world have been enchanted by the magical world of
wizardry, spells, and mythical beasts inhabited by Harry Potter and his
friends. But what most readers don’t know is that there is a
centuries-old trove of true history, folklore, and mythology behind
Harry’s fantastic universe. Now, with The Sorcerer’s Companion,
those without access to the Hogwarts Library can school themselves in
the fascinating reality behind J. K. Rowling’s world of magic.
Newly updated to include Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, The Sorcerer’s Companion
allows curious readers to look up anything magical from the Harry
Potter books and discover a wealth of entertaining, unexpected
information. Wands and wizards, boggarts and broomsticks, hippogriffs
and herbology, all have astonishing histories rooted in legend,
literature, or real-life events dating back hundreds or even thousands
of years. Magic wands, like those sold in Rowling’s Diagon Alley, were
once fashioned by Druid sorcerers out of their sacred yew trees. Love
potions were first concocted in ancient Greece and Egypt. And books of
spells and curses were highly popular during the Middle Ages. From
Amulets to Zombies, you’ll also learn:
• how to read tea leaves
• where to find a basilisk today
• how King Frederick II of Denmark financed a war with a unicorn horn
• who the real Merlin was
• how to safely harvest mandrake root
• who wore the first invisibility cloak
• how to get rid of a goblin
• why owls were feared in the ancient world
• what really lies beyond the Veil
• the origins of our modern-day “bogeyman,” and more.
A spellbinding tour of Harry’s captivating world, The Sorcerer’s Companion is a must for every Potter aficionado’s bookshelf.
The
Sorcerer's Companion has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by
any person or entity that created, published, or produced the Harry
Potter books or related properties.
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