historical adventure

Desert Magic evokes thoughs of Djinn and fairy tales, and deserts with dangerous mysteries and skies full of stars, hot days and streets full of fragrent spices. These six books will sweep you away with trixter spirits and their magic. One Thousand and One Nights (sometimes called Arabian Nights). There can’t be a list of desert magic tales without including the original. Take one evil king who marries and a new wife each night and kills her before morning. One clever woman who volunteers to marry the king, and has a plan to not be his next victim. She tells him riveting stories, but leaves them unfinished at dawn to go to sleep. Eventually he falls in love with her and no longer plans on carrying out his plot of killing her. The tales she tells him are some of the best, most loved stories such as Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, and Ali Baba and the Forty Theives. The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty Nahri has never believed in magic. On the streets of 18th century Cairo, she survives as a brilliant con artist, using palm readings, zars, and healings—tricks she knows are nothing more than clever sleights of hand—to swindle wealthy Ottoman nobles. But when one of her cons accidentally summons a mysterious djinn warrior, Nahri is forced to confront the truth: the magical world of her childhood stories is real. The warrior tells her of Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, hidden beyond deserts of fire […] Read More...