The Silver Mask (Magisterium #4)

The Silver Mask (Magisterium #4)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545522390

From the bestselling powerhouses of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes another gripping journey about magic, danger, and friendship. A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed . . . but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt.Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death and an ever-present threat of war. As a result, Call has been imprisoned and interrogated. Everyone wants to know what Constantine was up to-and how he lives on.But Call has no idea.It is only when he's broken out of prison that the full potential of Constantine's plan is suddenly in his hands . . . and he must decide what to do with his power. In this spellbinding fourth book of Magisterium, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare take us beyond the realm of the living and into the dangers of the dead.

The Copper Gauntlet (Magisterium #2)

The Copper Gauntlet (Magisterium #2)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545522307

From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the second installment in the New York Times bestselling series that defies what you think you know about the worlds of good and evil. Callum Hunt's summer break isn't like other kids'. His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc. His father suspects him of being secretly evil. And, of course, most kids aren't heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall.It's not easy for Call . . . and it gets even harder after he checks out his basement and discovers that his dad might be trying to destroy both him and Havoc.Call escapes to the Magisterium -- but things only intensify there. The Alkahest -- a copper gauntlet capable of separating certain magicians from their magic -- has been stolen. And in their search to discover the culprit, Call and his friends Aaron and Tamara awaken the attention of some very dangerous foes -- and get closer to an even more dangerous truth.As the mysteries of the Magisterium deepen and widen, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare take readers on an extraordinary journey through one boy's conflict -- and a whole world's fate.

Mask of Silver

Mask of Silver
Author: Rosemary Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1839080167

A stunning return to Arkham Horror when a movie director shoots his silent horror masterpiece in eerie Arkham, capturing crawling nightmares instead of moving pictures, in this chilling novel of creeping dread Hollywood make-up artist and costumier, Jeany Lin, travels to Arkham to work on the new “nightmare movie” by enigmatic director Sydney Fitzmaurice. The star is her sister, Renee Love, Sydney’s collaborator and lover. Desperate to outdo the thrills and terror of Lon Chaney’s popular pictures, Sydney prepares occult-infused dream sequences for Love and her co-stars to perform. But there’s more than mere imagery at play as the cast suffer recurring nightmares, accidents, and impossible waking visions. When events take a sinister turn and people start dying on set, it’s up to Jeany to unmask the monsters before Sydney’s obsessions doom them all.

Grey Mask

Grey Mask
Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453223622

Governess-turned-detective Miss Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime. Never one for the heroic, Charles’s first instinct is to let the police settle it. But then he hears her voice. Margaret, his long lost love, is part of the gang. To unravel their diabolical plot, he contacts Miss Maud Silver, a onetime governess who applies reason to solve crimes and face the dangers of London’s underworld.

The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1)

The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545522277

From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a riveting new series that defies what you think you know about the world of magic. Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future. The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . . From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding plunge into the magical unknown.

The Silver Mask

The Silver Mask
Author: Christian Ellingsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2016-07-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781535362887

The gods and goddesses are dead, killed two hundred years ago. With their destruction the moon split apart, the sun dwindled and the land was devastated. Civilisation has re-emerged from the carnage, but twisted creatures still prowl the savage Wildlands between the city-states. In the skies above the city of Vasini, a falling star, a fragment of the dead moon goddess Serindra, heads to earth. In the Palace district, Dame Vittoria Emerson, darling of the city, has been found dead, lying amongst her own vomit. As Captain Marcus Fox of the Inspectorate hunts the killer, Dr. Elizabeth Reid searches for the remnants of Serindra determined to make sure the poisonous quicksilver it contains is not used. With Vittoria's death threatening to draw the city's political elite into a war of assassins, Fox and Reid must rush to expose the secrets that lie within Vasini before they tear the city-state apart. The Silver Mask is the opening part of The Vasini Chronicles, a series of flintlock-and-alchemy fantasy novels set in the city-state of Vasini.

The Golden Tower

The Golden Tower
Author: Holly Black et al.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 239
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9781646970469

In this monumental conclusion to the Magisterium series, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare push Callum to the brink of annihilation, showing how magic has the ability to both save and doom, create and destroy.

The Bronze Key

The Bronze Key
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-08-29
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 0552567701

"Magic can save you Magic can kill you It should be a time of celebration. The Enemy of Death is dead; a severed head proof of his downfall. The magical world has no reason to believe otherwise, and Callum, Tamara and Aaron are celebrated as heroes. But at a party held in their honour, things go horribly, brutally wrong. A fellow student is callously murdered, and it seems Call's worst fears are confirmed- there is a spy in the Magisterium. No one is safe. Now, using the powerful magic they've been taught, the trio must risk their lives to track down the killer. But magic is dangerous - in the wrong hands it could bring terrible destruction. And reveal the deadliest secret of all . . ."

Valiant

Valiant
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471116247

Rediscover the dark and seductive realm of faerie in the second book of the critically acclaimed Modern Faerie Tales series from the bestselling author of The Cruel Prince – Holly Black. When Valerie runs away to New York to escape her old life, she decides to sport a new identity and take up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. There’s something suspicious about her new friends, but she can’t quite put her finger on it. When Val is talked into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, she’s drawn into a world she never knew existed. But to leave with her life intact, she must strike a bargain. What’s Val willing to risk?

Rose and the Magician's Mask

Rose and the Magician's Mask
Author: Holly Webb
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1492604313

Rose is now a fully fledged magician's apprentice—will her new magic be enough to find the dangerous magician's mask? When a precious mask of unimaginable power is stolen from the royal palace, Rose suspects that dark magicians are at work and that danger looms. The race to stop the evil thieves will take Rose to the mysterious city of Venice, where nothing is quite what it seems. Can Rose use her magic to find the terrible mask before its true powers are revealed?