title: Wizard of the Pigeons
author:  Megan Lindholm 
description: The fifth book in the Megan Lindholm (Robin Hobb) backlist. Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City. Subtle magic seeps through the cracks in the paving stones of the sprawling metropolis. But only the inhabitants who possess special gifts are open to the city's consciousness; finding portents in the graffiti, reading messages in the rubbish or listening to warnings in the skipping-rope chants of children. Wizard is bound to Seattle and her magic. His gift is the Knowing -- a powerful enchantment allowing him to know the truth of things; to hear the life-stories of ancient mummies locked behind glass cabinets, to receive true fortunes from the carnival machines, to reveal to ordinary people the answers to their troubles and to safeguard the city's equilibrium. The magic has its price; Wizard must never have more than a dollar in his pocket, must remain celibate, and he must feed and protect the pigeons. But a threat to Seattle has begun to emerge in the portents. A malevolent force born of Wizard's forgotten past has returned to prey upon his power and taunt him with images of his obscure history; and he is the only wizard in Seattle who can face the evil and save the city, his friends and himself.
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  ## Wizard of the Pigeons
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Megan Lindholm
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City. Subtle magic seeps through
  the cracks in the paving stones of the sprawling metropolis. But only the
  inhabitants who possess special gifts are open to the city's consciousness;
  finding portents in the graffiti, reading messages in the rubbish or listening
  to warnings in the skipping-rope chants of children. Wizard is bound to
  Seattle and her magic. His gift is the Knowing — a powerful enchantment
  allowing him to know the truth of things; to hear the life-stories of ancient
  mummies locked behind glass cabinets, to receive true fortunes from the
  carnival machines, to reveal to ordinary people the answers to their troubles
  and to safeguard the city's equilibrium. The magic has its price; Wizard must
  never have more than a dollar in his pocket, must remain celibate, and he must
  feed and protect the pigeons. But a threat to Se