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Piper Houdini Apprentice of Coney Island
Piper Houdini Apprentice of Coney Island
Piper Houdini Apprentice of Coney Island
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When she wasnt being shunted from one foster home to the next, Piper Weiss spent the first twelve years of her life in an orphanage. But everything changes when a dark stranger shows up claiming to be her father. Things get even weirder when Piper is taken to live with her uncle, who happens to be the world-famous magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini. And Houdini is not at all pleased about having a curious twelve-year-old running around his home.

Piper attends school, gets detention on her first day, and meets some friends who will help her unravel the clues to her mysterious past. But something sinister and powerful has been unleashed in New York, an evil force hell-bent on bringing about the Apocalypse. Sideshow freaks are being murdered and it all seems to be leading to a dark ritual started twelve years earlierthe day Piper was born. How can Piper defeat this malevolent entity when she may be the reason for its very existence?

Piper Houdini: Apprentice of Coney Island is a young adult novel set in the Roaring Twenties against the hustling and bustling background of New Yorks Coney Islanda time filled with silent movies, secret speakeasies, and an unscrupulous Spiritualist movement that is the unwitting pawn in a plot to bring about hell on Earth. Populated with a cast of actual historical figuresincluding Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dion Fortune, and Aleister Crowleythis spine-tingling tale will appeal to readers who enjoy urban fantasy and paranormal historical fiction as much as a jaunt on the Wonder Wheel.

This book is magical in many ways. Piper is an endearing and relatable character that Im sure adults and young adults alike will enjoy. A great debut novel from Glenn Herdling.

Rea Nolan Martin, author of The Sublime Transformation of Vera Wright and Mystic Tea

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBalboa Press
Release dateFeb 18, 2016
ISBN9781504349734
Piper Houdini Apprentice of Coney Island
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Glenn Herdling

Glenn Herdling, a graduate of Bucknell University and post-graduate of New York University, began his publishing career in 1987 as an editor and writer at Marvel Comics. He was born and raised in New Jersey where he currently works in the healthcare and financial sectors struggling to make insurance documents read like plain English. He has contributed to numerous published works and has written over 80 comic books, including Spider-Man and Deadpool. Piper Houdini: Nightmare on Esopus Island is Herdling's second book in the Piper Houdini series.

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