The Brides of Maracoor
The Brides of Maracoor

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0063093987

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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 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-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices. As the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island’s civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill? The trilogy Another Day will follow this green-skinned girl from the island outpost into the unmapped badlands of Maracoor before she learns how, and becomes ready, to turn her broom homeward, back to her family and her lover, back to Oz, which—in its beauty, suffering, mystery, injustice, and possibility—reminds us all too clearly of the troubled yet sacred terrain of our own lives.

Out of Oz
Out of Oz

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 0062101234

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“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Bestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex landscape of “the magical land of Oz.” Out of Oz brilliantly reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest—placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland. Even Dorothy makes a triumphant return in Maguire’s magnificent Oz finale—tying up every loose green end of the series he began with his classic Wicked, the basis for the smash hit Broadway musical.

Wicked
Wicked

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0061792942

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The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens. But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.

After
After

Author: Ellen Datlow

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1423170067

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If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake-whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future. New York Times bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology.

A Lion Among Men
A Lion Among Men

Author: Gregory Maguire

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-09-28

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0061987417

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While civil war looms in Oz, Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—surrenders the story of his life to a tetchy oracle named Yackle. Abandoned as a cub, Brrr's path from infancy in the Great Gillikan Forest is no Yellow Brick Road. Seeking to redress an early mistake, he trudges through a swamp of ghosts, becomes implicated in a massacre of trolls, falls in love with a forbidding Cat princess, and avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the war-mongering Emperor of Oz. A portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's A Lion Among Men is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.

The Classic Collection of Aleister Crowley. Illustrated
The Classic Collection of Aleister Crowley. Illustrated

Author: Aleister Crowley

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 813

ISBN-13:

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"The Classic Collection of Aleister Crowley. Illustrated" is a comprehensive anthology that brings together some of the most influential and controversial works of the renowned occultist Aleister Crowley. This meticulously curated collection spans Crowley's prolific career and encompasses a wide range of his writings, providing readers with a profound insight into his esoteric philosophy and magical practices. The anthology features several key texts, including "The Lesser Key of Solomon," a grimoire of ceremonial magic and demonology; "The Book of the Law," which served as the cornerstone of Thelema, Crowley's spiritual and philosophical system; "The Book of Lies," a cryptic and enigmatic exploration of mystical concepts; "Magick," a seminal work on ceremonial magic and ritual practices; "Cocaine," an autobiographical account of Crowley's experiences with the drug; "Moonchild," a novel blending elements of mysticism, the supernatural, and occultism; and a selection of Crowley's Qabalistic writings, which delve into the mystical and symbolic aspects of the Hebrew Kabbalah. This collection is not only a testament to Crowley's intellectual versatility but also a significant contribution to the study of Western esotericism and occultism. Lavishly illustrated and thoughtfully compiled, it offers both scholars and enthusiasts an opportunity to delve into the mind of one of the most controversial and influential figures in the occult tradition, shedding light on his complex and multifaceted worldview. "The Classic Collection of Aleister Crowley. Illustrated" is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the occult, magic, and mysticism. The Lesser Key of Solomon The Book of the Law ‏ The Book of Lies Magick Cocaine Moonchild 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings

Contemporary Children's Literature and Film
Contemporary Children's Literature and Film

Author: Kerry Mallan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-07-13

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0230345301

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Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film.