{"product_id":"9780670023660","title":"The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman.  During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty.  Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (\u003ci\u003eThe Magicians \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Magician King\u003c\/i\u003e) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (\u003ci\u003eA Discovery of Witches\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShadow of Night\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016776630512,"sku":"9780670023660","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780670023660_p0.jpg?v=1763604281","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780670023660","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}