Rourke, Dennis: The Everything Card Tricks Book ©2005 F&W Media, Inc., Avon, MA Softcover, perfect-bound, 225 pages ISBN: 9781593374211

Comments: "Over 100 amazing tricks to impress your friends and family!"

Contents (from book ToC, updated Jan 2020, added tricks):

x Top Ten Reasons to Learn Card Tricks
xi Introduction

1 Welcome to Playing-Card Magic
2 The Mystique of Playing Cards
2 A Rich History
4 The Life of the Party
4 The Ultimate Icebreaker
5 The Process of Learning a Card Trick
7 Professional Magic

9 Selling a Trick
10 Establishing Credibility
10 The Magician's Code
12 The Magic Mystique
12 Your Appearance
13 Entertaining Versus Fooling
14 Practice and Polish
17 Take Your Applause
19 Misdirection: Magic’s Greatest Secret
20 Avoiding Distractions
20 Capturing and Leading Attention
22 Breaking Up the Memory
23 Watch Your Angles
24 Eye Patterns
25 Motion
26 Patter

29 Card Location
30 The Mechanic's Grip
31 Placing the Card
33 The Jog
34 The False Shuffle
35 Card to Bottom
35 Card to Top
38 Tricks Based on Card Location
38 Poker Deal
39 - All In the Mind
39 - The Four Aces

41 The Glimpse
42 Think Inside the Box
42 Bottom Peek
44 The Top Glimpse
46 Shiner
47 Tricks with the Glimpse
47 - I See It In Your Eyes
47 - The Next Card Is Yours
48 - The Psychic Audience
50 - Number Your Card
51 - Spelling Trick

53 Forced Choice
54 False Cut Force
54 Hindu Shuffle
56 Slip Force
57 Conjurer's Choice
58 The Classic Force
58 Tricks Using the Force
58 - Impossible Find
59 - Card in Pocket
60 - Card in Orange
61 - Tape Recorded Card Prediction
61 - The Want-Ads Card Prediction
63 - Torn and Restored Card
63 - Wizard of the Cell Phone
64 - The Wizard Calls Back

65 Counting the Cards
66 Short Count
67 Long Count
69 Slow Long Count
70 Hold-Back Count
71 Tricks by Counting Cards
72 - Cards Across
72 - Special Delivery
73 - Count by Memory
74 - Telepathic Card Count
75 - Great Minds Think Alike

77 False Cuts
78 The Tap Cut
79 The Three-Way Cut
80 One-Handed Cut
81 The Triple Table Cut
82 Using the False Cut
82 - Lost and Found
82 - Tip of My Tongue
83 - The First Ace Wins
84 - The Guardian Aces
85 - Read the Instructions
86 - Out of the Box

87 Palming a Card
88 Top Palm
90 Bottom Palm
91 Pre-Palm
91 Tricks
91 - Magician's Goof
92 - Card in Forehead
93 - Deck Transposition
94 - The Four Aces

97 The Stacked Deck
98 The Top Stock
98 The Bottom Stock
98 Si Stebbins Stack
101 Tricks with a Stacked Deck
101 - Uncle Joe
102 - Perfect Poker Deal
103 - Mind Reading a la Si Stebbins
104 - Call the Cut Card
104 Ten Card Poker Deal

107 Crimps and Bridges
108 Side Crimp
109 Corner Crimp
109 Flying Crimp
110 Tricks with Crimps
110 - Finding the Aces
111 - Magician's Nightmare Card Location
112 - Fair Cut
112 Side Bridge
114 End Bridge
114 Bridge Cut
115 Tricks with a Bridge
115 - You Cut to My Card
116 - I Cut To Your Card
117 - Ugly Shuffle
118 Two-Hand Poker Deal

121 Short Card
122 Short Card
123 Short Corner
123 Svengali Deck
124 Stripper Deck
126 Tricks with Short Cards
126 - The Bad Penny Card
127 - Lost Card Returns
128 - The Svengali Color Guard
129 - The Can't Hide Card Trick
130 - Lucky Seven
131 - Jacks in Back
133  Tree Card Repeat

133 Confederates
134 Signs and Codes
134 Tricks with Signs and Codes
135 - Ten-Card Prediction
136 - The Swami Factor
137 - Si Stebbins
138 The Plant in the Audience
140 Tricks with a Plant in the Audience
140 - Second Sight
141 - The Telephone Trick

143 Apparatus
144 Rising Cards
147 Slick Card
148 Salted Card
148 Card Box
149 Tricks with Apparatus
149 - Card Takes a Bow
150 - Jumping Jack
151 - Torn and Restored Card
152 - Impossible Cut

153 The Double Lift
154 Classic Double Lift
156 One-Handed Get-Ready Lift
157 One-Handed Double Lift
158 Tricks with a Double Lift
158 - Card to Top
158 - Card Transposition
159 - Sucker Trick
159 - The Blushing Brunette
160 - The Ambitious Card

161 Reversed Card
162 Bold Reverse
162 Cut to Reverse
163 Double Lift Reverse
164 Tricks with a Reversed Card
164 - The Invisible Card Trick
165 - The Wayward King
167 One-Way Deck
167 - The Backward Card
169 Tricks with a One-Way Deck
169 - Got Your Back
170 - A Gentle Touch
171 - Sensitive Touch

173 Fans and Spreads
174 Flourish as a Key to Credibility
174 Two-Handed Fans
175 - Spread Fan
176 - Circle Fan
177 One-Handed Fans
177 - One Handed Spread Fan
177 - The Rosette
179 - The Double Fan
180 Simple Spreads
180 - Table Spread
180 - Double Spread
180 - S-Curved Spread
181 Animated Spreads
181 - Over and Back
181 - Flip Spread
182 - Flip Flop
182 - Surfing the Wave

183 Extra Cards
184 Duplicate Card
184 Blank Card
184 Double Card
185 Introducing a Duplicate Card
186 Tricks with Extra Cards
186 - Think Inside the Box
187 - Card in Spectator's Pocket
187 - Shuffled Card to Pocket
189 - The Red and the Blue
190 - Cards Across
191 - Blank Fan

193 Fancy Cuts and Shuffles
194 The Swivel Cut
195 The Cut Position
196 The Gate Cut
196 The Charlier Pass
197 The Three Way Cut
198 Fair Foul and Fancy
199 Riffle Shuffle
200 Faro Shuffle
203 Russian Shuffle

205 Flashy Stuff
206 Producing the Selected Card
206 - Card From Hat
206 - Cards From Mouth
207 Showing Both Sides of a Card as One
207 - The Paddle Move
207 Shooting a Card
207 - Magician's Recovery
208 - Funny Card
209 - Spin Change
210 Producing a Card
212 Vanishing a Card
212 - One Handed Vanish
213 - Two Handed Vanish
213 Color Change
214 - Overlay Color Change
214 - Color Change Insert
215 - An Evening At Court

217 Appendix A
117 Magic Societies

218 Appendix B
218 Glossary

222 Index