Catalog Search Results
Series
Description
Comedy of Terrors: The Hinchley and Trumbull Funeral Parlor is on the verge of financial ruin. Hinchley, 92 years old and senile, had entrusted the business to his lazy, drunken son-in-law, Trumbull. To make matters worse, their landlord is now threatening to evict them. Forced to act, Trumbull devises a murderous scheme that will drum up new "customers" and pay back his landlord at the same time
Raven: Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Craven...
5) Rough magic
Description
When a backstage trick accidentally leads to murder, beautiful magician's apprentice Myra Shumway pulls a disappearing act and heads to the border to Mexico. Trailed by a handsome reporter, Myra sets off in search of a legendary blue elixir with truly magical qualities. With her spurned fiancée closing in, Myra and Alex join forces and conjure up some magic of their own ...
Description
Every new discovery made, skill acquired, or lesson learned by a child is like magic. Now kids can proactively create magic themselves with the help of master illusionist Lyn Dillies. Lyn presents budding young magicians with an engaging, entertaining, and easy-to-follow introduction to the world of magic. Features eleven uncomplicated but impressive tricks any child can learn within minutes.
7) Sleight
Description
Left to care for his little sister after their parents' passing, a young street magician turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. He is forced to use his magic and a brilliant mind to save his sister when he gets in too deep and she is kidnapped.
Description
Ten-year-old Morten spends his days building a toy ship and trying to avoid the ire of his reluctant guardian, a mean ex-ballerina named Anna, while his father is at sea. Morten hopes to one day be a Captain just like him. After a chance meeting with the inept magician Senor Cucaracha, Morten is magically shrunk down to the size of an insect and trapped aboard the deck of his own toy ship as the room around him floods!
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
For a brief suggestive comment, and smoking throughout.
12) House of magic
Description
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Thunder must learn how to get along with the other animals living there. When the magician gets into a car accident, however, the pets must join forces against an evil nephew who tries to sell his house.
13) Wonka
Description
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock full of ideas...
15) Shelby
Description
Christmas is coming, and notorious stray pup/escape artist Shelby is once again locked up in the dog pound. But when a spoiled rich kid tries to adopt him for all the wrong reasons, Shelby runs away and hides in the suburban basement of ten-year-old aspiring magician Jake Parker. Now with the frazzled local dogcatcher hot on their tail, can Jake, his siblings and their visiting grandpa, pull off the ultimate magic trick and rescue Shelby, making him...
Description
Includes two full Sesame Street episodes. In the first episode, Max the Magician (Will Arnett) comes to Sesame Street, and Elmo and his friends learn about addition and subtraction through magic tricks. In the second episode, 'Hat Day, ' Elmo and Zoe have a contest to see who can wear the most hats, learning to count, estimate and count by fives. Also includes bonus, Elmo's World Hats.
17) Guzaarish
Description
Ethan Mascarenhas is one of the greatest magicians of his time. Presently hosting a radio show that spreads magic, hope, and laughter through his wit and humor, it is hard to imagine that he has been immobilized with a spinal injury for the last 14 years. Ethan is aided through by his nurse, Sofia D'Souza. Theirs is a love beautiful in its implicit silence and unwavering in its quiet strength. But on the 14th anniversary of his accident, Ethan makes...
18) The Tempest
Description
"This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy ... Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera ... conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge"--Container.
19) Abiyoyo
Series
Reading rainbow volume 035
Description
Reveals some of the ways a story can be told with music, including music videos and dance. Features the book Abiyoyo, which is based on a South African lullaby with text by Pete Seeger. Reviews other books with related themes.
20) Lost in a harem
Description
Lost in a harem: Peter Johnson and Harvey Garvey, bumbling magicians stranded in the desert domain of Barabeeha, are asked by handsome prince Ramo to help him regain his throne from wicked Uncle Nimativ. This perilous task takes them deep inside the sultan's inner sanctum, and there the madcap adventure really begins.
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood: Bud and Lou turn Hollywood inside out with their antics, pranks, and comedy as they play the role...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Alachua County Library District can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Suggest Materials Service. Submit Request