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62 David Sousa: Magic Thinking by Dustin Stinett 54 44th Annual Academy of Magical Arts Awards
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72 Jim Swain's Dark Magic
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by Dean Alan Carnegie 20 Lost Horizons Pangmaster by Max Maven 22 Conjuring Tin-Can Telephone by Jim Steinmeyer 26 The Chamber of Secrets The Transparent Casket by John Gaughan 30 Loadstones Red Notes /Black Notes by Tom Stone
38 Aaron Fisher Teaches Card Magic
The Double Turnover, Part 1 by Aaron Fisher 44 Magicana by David Acer 44 Triumph Sans False Shuffle by Kent Gunn 48 Tenkai Fusion by Marc Trudel 50 Delta Force by Curtis Kam
LIGHT FROM THE LAMP
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78 Books Reviewed by David Britland
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