His material is predominantly intermediate to advanced, but Tyler Wilson's Reinventing The Real is a book that does just what you are looking for, and a majority of the material is card work (there's some other fun non-card things peppered throughout the book as well).
Keep in mind that he is sharing how he presents each effect, and it may be that his presentation will not fit you, even though the trick itself could. (This would be the case for any resource that fills in a script and presentation for you)
Cheers!
Matt M.
I understand what you are saying about it being the author's presentation and everyone has a unique style. The different ideas on scripts certainly help. It also helps to here thoughts, ideas, and feedback from people who actually preform the effect. This is where I feel a lot of authors are lacking .
Let me give an example of a situation I was dealing with and how I made my presentation better....
One of my favorite openers is two card monte. I would show the audiences card then show them my card and show them in "slow motion" how I was going to switch the card. Then I would "do the switch at real speed".
After "the switch at real speed" I was holding a card and still needed to do a move. I was catching a lot of heat from everyone in the audience. If it was one person I could try and make eye contact. If it was several people I tried to do a covering motion and execute the move. After many performances it finally came to me, I needed to do the move when the heat wasn't on me.
So I made the following adjustments. Before the slow motion switch I tap the spectators card with my deck hand asking them to point the card down, up or whatever. This is just to get them use to me asking them to make an adjustment to their card. Then after the slow motion switch I announce I am going to do it at real speed. I have them make an adjustment to their card using my deck hand, ..... While they are adjusting the card, I execute the move. This worked great because everyone is focues on the spectators card which needs to be adjusted.
Now I just build everything up and stretch the arm or make some other "warming up manuevers". I announce to the audience to keep a close eye and this is going to be "it". Then I make the real speed switch and they can burn me all they want.
This was an easy adjustment, but it's a small detail that was overlooked by the source when I learned this trick. These are the types of "tips" ...etc. That really help.