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All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in dangerous women include work by 12 new york times best sellers, and seven stories set in the authors bestselling continuities including a new outlander story by diana gabaldon, a tale of harry dresdens world by jim butcher, a story from lev grossman set in the world of the magicians, and a 35,000word novella by george r. Yes, if you judge the magicians after the first fifty or so pages, you may be tempted to dismiss. A high school math genius, hes secretly fascinated with a series of childrens fantasy novels set in a magical land called fillory, and real. The magicians is a fictional novel that is based on magical fantasy and parallel universe genres. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the magicians. Listendownload the magicians audiobook by lev grossman. A magician grows up nprs petra mayer sees the sights at san diego comiccon with magicians trilogy author lev grossman and discusses what happens when wizardly kids have to. Lev grossman is a novelist and time magazines book critic.
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