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    All Your Kids’ Santa Questions Explained
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    A Preternatural Devotion: Remembering Ricky Jay
    by Lawrence Weschler
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    All Right, Fine, My Magic Is the True Cause of Climate Change
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    Tim Carvell’s History’s Notable Persons Reconsidered: Harry Houdini
    by Tim Carvell
  • February 7, 2013
    The Half-Priced Hypnotist
    by Bekah Grim
  • September 14, 2010
    I am a Birthday-Party Magician in a Midwestern Town
    by Ben Greenman
  • December 9, 2008
    Nineteenth-Century Magic Secrets Revealed
    by Will Bailey
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