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 Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.But “out of Oz” isn’t “gone for good.” Maguire’s new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-...

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 second in the trilogy called Another Day, continues the story of Elphaba’s green-skinned granddaughter, Rain. That strange land, Maracoor—across the ocean from Oz—is beset by an invading army. In the mayhem, Rain and Cossy, a child felon, break out of pri...

The multimillion-copy bestselling story of Wicked comes full circle in The Witch of Maracoor, the final installment of Gregory Maguire’s Another Day seriesFollowing a confrontation with her reclusive great-grandfather, the onetime Wizard of Oz, Rainary Ko, the granddaughter of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, has re-upped in a mission to settle a few scores and right a wrong or two. Her memory and her passions reviving, Rain turns her gaze back to her native Oz. Whil...

Winner of the 2022 Nancy Staub Award for scholarship and academic excellence in puppetry from UNIMA, the International Puppetry Guild, this interactive, multi-media ebook is a vivid, amusing chronicle of Underground Railway Theater's (URT) touring years (1978-2001). VIDEO-EXCERPTS from several URT PRODUCTIONS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO READERS thru hyperlinks, including COLOR SHADOW-PUPPET BALLETS choreographed to classic LEONARD BERNSTEIN RECORDINGS OF "THE FIREBIRD" AND "TILL EULENSPIEGEL'S MERRY...

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After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Wild Swans,"" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of Christmas in 1960s New York.Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on th...

Ninth House meets Babel for fans of myth and folklore in this contemporary fantasy about a Korean-American college student at a magical university where fairy tales intersect with family heritage to unleash powers beyond imagining.“You always wanted magic to be real.”Sharon and her daughter V’s points of origin hold common threads—both Korean American teenagers, raised by single m...

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments and Alias GraceThe trick was to disappear without a trace, leaving behind me the shadow of a corpse, a shadow everyone would mistake for solid reality. At first I thought I'd managed it.Fat girl, thin girl. Red hair, brown hair. Polish aristocrat, radical husband. Joan Foster has dozens of different identities, and she's utterly confused by them all. After a life spent ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Follow Sally to a dark realm called Shadow Town—where a powerful foe awaits her—in the #1 New York Times bestselling series inspired by Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas!Can Sally save Jack from the shadows?Sally should be at ease now that she has proven herself as Pumpkin Queen by saving Halloween Town from destructive spells twice. But the villain behind the town’s most recen...

A damsel in distress takes on the dragon herself in this epic twist on classic fantasy—based on a screenplay by Dan Mazeau comes a groundbreaking collaboration between New York Times bestselling author Evelyn Skye and the team behind the upcoming Netflix film Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown.A price must be paid.Elodie never dreamed of a lavish palace or a handsome prince. Growing up in the famine-stricken realm of Inophe, her ...

“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland“I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial divisions—together more dystopian than any dystopian novel—the book surprised me most with its ...

**From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Blue Bloods series comes a lush, swoon-worthy retelling of Cinderella set in the lavish Château de Versailles.“Lovers of royal drama and fairy tales with a twist will happily sink into this new ‘Cinderella’ rendition.”—Booklist**For this princess, winning the crown is no fairy tale.Cendrillon de Louvois was poised to be the most eligible maiden in all of France. But the death of her father, the...