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Gregory Maguire
The stunning novel that casts a spell over every reader and inspired a phenomenally successful musical
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A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair-from the fertile imagination behind Wicked.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Gregory Maguire’s Wicked, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.
Ten years ago this season, Gregory…
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Set in an Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, profiles her as an…
The beloved multimillion-copy-bestselling novel and basis of the Tony Award-winning musical and movie, in a deluxe hardback edition with green stained edges, a ribbon marker, and an elegant foil-stamped cover.
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The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
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The "enchanting" (EW) conclusion to the Another Day series from the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon…
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals…
The New York Times bestselling sequel to Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and…
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Gregory Maguire's stunning saga set in the world of Oz comes full circle in the unforgettable conclusion to the Wicked Years series which started with Wicked…
Focusing on the Cowardly Lion, the third in the Wicked Years series which started with Wicked, the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit…
The bestselling classic and basis for the Tony Award-winning musical and upcoming movie Wicked, here paired for the first time with the other three books in the Wicked Years series…
"When Maguire and illustrator Litchfield merge their creative geniuses, a spectacular woodland adventure full of quirky animal characters emerges. . . . A story that will be beloved for years…
From the bestselling author of Wicked comes an early novel–a funny, heart-wrenching story of a 12-year-old orphan who has never been adopted because of her physical handicap and difficult personality…
A British writer investigates a woman claiming to be haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper in the eagerly awaited third novel from the acclaimed bestselling author of Wicked…
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In this follow-up to Wicked –the basis for the Tony Award-winning musical–beloved novelist Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz and introduces readers to Liir, the small boy…
Presents an imaginative tale rooted in early nineteenth-century German Romanticism that explores parallels between the origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves…
Master storyteller Gregory Maguire surpasses himself in a dazzling tour de force as he spins a mesmerizing, magical tale for readers of all ages.
Bestselling author Maguire’s remarkable series comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex Oz landscape. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in…
From the bestselling author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West comes a tale-within-a-tale about the strange world of the skibbereen (also known as…
What happened to those left behind when Alice went to Wonderland?
Follows the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch. A decade after the Witch has melted away…
Presents the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch. Here, the author suggests that the magic we…
Winifred Rudge attempts to write a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper, and finds herself the object of spectral phenomena as she arrives in…
A novel of beauty and betrayal, which reminds us that deception can be unearthed - and love unveiled - in the most unexpected of places
The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father…
Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire brings us the enchanting second novel in the series Another Day, returning to the world he first created in Wicked.
The Oracle of Maracoor, the…
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Includes additional text about the author and the book.
The third extraordinary novel in Gregory Maguire’s bestselling Wicked series, featuring the beloved Cowardly Lion
Maguire returns with the final instalment in his transformative work, a thrilling and compulsively readable saga in which the fate of Oz is decided at last
In 1905 czarist Russia, an impoverished country girl Elena and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower…
Gregory Maguire transforms Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story ‘The Wild Swans’ into an Italian-American girl’s coming-of-age, set in atmospheric 1960s New York –
Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain –
The second dazzling and entrancing novel in Gregory Maguire’s bestselling Wicked series
From the bestselling author of the adult novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West –the basis for the hit Broadway musical–comes this unique take…
In this third novel of the New York Times -bestselling series, civil war looms in Oz, and an ancient oracle named Yackle prepares for death. But before she can die…
Maguire travels back to Frank L. Baum’s land of Oz for this absorbing fantasy that delves into the background if the famed Wicked Witch of the West, a misunderstood creature…
Retells the classic fairy tale of Cinderella from the point of view of one of the ugly stepsisters, turning the entire legend around in a look at what it means…