The Wizard who Wasn't

The Wizard who Wasn't
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2000
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780099408055

One of a reissue of six of Blyton's classic tales of goblins, imps, pixies, wizards and magic. Inspired by Thinkalot in his tall black hat and starry robe, Bobodil the pixie decides to pass himself off as a wizard too. Using his smart pixie wit, he is amazingly successful in a series of adventures.

A Wizard Alone

A Wizard Alone
Author: Diane Duane
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152055097

While Nita mourns her mother's death, teenage wizard Kit and his dog Ponch set out to find a young autistic boy who vanished in the middle of his Ordeal, pursued by the Lone Power.

The Wizard's Dilemma

The Wizard's Dilemma
Author: Diane Duane
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547546823

A novel “filled with very credible teen angst, morality, and an intriguing blend of science fiction and fantasy” from the author of A Wizard Abroad (School Library Journal). Still recovering from an overly eventful vacation in Ireland, teenage wizard Nita Callahan is looking forward to some peace and quiet in her suburban New York home. Instead, her close friend Kit seems to be acting a little weird, and Nita keeps running into problems for which wizardry either isn’t the answer or else it’s the wrong one. How do you fix what can’t be fixed? Only the Transcendent Pig knows, and it’s not telling. But Nita needs to find out—and soon. Her wizardly partnership with Kit starts to fall apart. Much worse, her mother gets sick . . . so sick she may never leave the hospital.Only one person can help Nita—the One she’s devoted her life to fighting. “Powerful and satisfying.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A gripping and dynamic fantasy . . . Fans of the author will flock to this new adventure, which likely will bring new readers to the series.”—VOYA Praise for the Young Wizards series “Duane is tops in the high adventure business . . . This rollicking yarn will delight readers.”—Publishers Weekly “High Wizardry is . . . high entertainment.”—Locus “Recommend this series to young teens who devour books about magic and wizards . . . or kids looking for ‘Harry Potter’ read-alikes.”—School Library Journal “Stands between the works of Diana Wynne Jones . . . and Madeleine L’Engle . . . An outstanding, original work.”—The Horn Book

The Wizard

The Wizard
Author: Niranjan
Publisher: Geetha Krishnan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 101-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In the land of Ea, magic runs in bloodlines. But it is also believed to be evil, with the Order of the Knights of Fedoris ready to crack down on anyone who shows any hint of magic. Stevin has hidden his magical ability all his life. When he and his friends are abducted and carried away to an island by the Wizards who only want them for their magic, he realises that learning to control his powers may be his only chance of survival. But why is the leader of the wizards so interested in his friends and why is the mysterious wizard Gertin offering to help him? Beset on all sides and unable to trust anyone, Stevin must learn to accept his magic and to fight for everyone he holds dear if he’s to survive his captivity. But can he learn to master his magic while hiding his true potential from his captors?

The Wizard's Secret

The Wizard's Secret
Author: Rain Oxford
Publisher: Rain Oxford
Total Pages: 261
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ayden Dracre, the youngest son in a family of notorious sorcerers, is content with his magical studies until Merlin leaves Caldaca in order to find a way to break his curse. While waiting for Merlin’s return, Ayden makes a mistake that causes him to question his magic. He soon discovers both his aunt and Merlin are in danger, and in order to save them, Ayden is pushed further than ever before. With two powerful enemies and a dark presence haunting him, Ayden will have to be very careful about who he trusts. Meanwhile, Merlin must rely on Ayden when his past returns to threaten his future.

The Knight

The Knight
Author: Gene Wolfe
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2005-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142991551X

A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude next year in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard. Gene Wolfe is one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy. He is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Nebula Award, twice, the World Fantasy Award, twice, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and France's Prix Apollo. His popular successes include the four-volume classic The Book of the New Sun. With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Wizard and the Prophet

The Wizard and the Prophet
Author: Charles C. Mann
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307961702

From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions generally fall into two deeply divided groups--Wizards and Prophets, as Charles Mann calls them in this balanced, authoritative, nonpolemical new book. The Prophets, he explains, follow William Vogt, a founding environmentalist who believed that in using more than our planet has to give, our prosperity will lead us to ruin. Cut back! was his mantra. Otherwise everyone will lose! The Wizards are the heirs of Norman Borlaug, whose research, in effect, wrangled the world in service to our species to produce modern high-yield crops that then saved millions from starvation. Innovate! was Borlaug's cry. Only in that way can everyone win! Mann delves into these diverging viewpoints to assess the four great challenges humanity faces--food, water, energy, climate change--grounding each in historical context and weighing the options for the future. With our civilization on the line, the author's insightful analysis is an essential addition to the urgent conversation about how our children will fare on an increasingly crowded Earth.

The Wizard's Butler

The Wizard's Butler
Author: Nathan Lowell
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940575186

How an ex-Army medic became butler to a demented wizard.

A Wizard from the Start

A Wizard from the Start
Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2010-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547488165

A wizard from the start, Thomas Edison had a thirst for knowledge, taste for mischief, and hunger for discovery—but his success was made possible by his boundless energy. At age fourteen he coined his personal motto: “The More to do, the more to be done,” and then went out and did: picking up skills and knowledge at every turn. When learning about things that existed wasn't enough, he dreamed up new inventions to improve the world. From humble beginnings as a farmer’s son, selling newspapers on trains and reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, Tom began his inventing career as a boy and became a legend as a man.