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Alice's life is about to change. She's a skinny orphan. She's never been able to hear too well. And she can't speak too well, either. The only person who seems to care for her—one of the nuns at the orphanage—gets taken away from Alice in a freak accident. And then one day somebody calls...

Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire’s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a...

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...

In this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early-nineteenth-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him. Gregory Maguire’s novels have...

Elphaba, la Perfida Strega dell'Ovest, è una donna risoluta e inflessibile. Ma fin da piccola ha dimostrato di essere fuori dagli schemi: questa è la storia di una ragazzina semplicemente eccezionale, per cui è impossibile non provare empatia. Plasmata dai comportamenti di una madre intemperante e distratta, Melena, e di un padre bigotto, Frex, come tutti i bambini la piccola Elphie soffre di gelosia quando nascono la sorella Nessarosa, la santarellina, e il fratello Guscio, delinquente in erba.

Au pays d'Oz, le jeune adolescent, Liir, a été vu pour la dernière fois dissimulé dans un recoin poussiéreux de Kiamo Ko, le fameux jour où Dorothy a éliminé la Sorcière. Quelques années plus tard, meurtri et plongé dans le coma, il est soigné au Cloître de Sainte-Glinda par une novice prénommée Candèle qui use de ses talents musicaux pour le faire voyager dans ses souvenirs. Alors que le pays d'Oz, après le départ du Magicien, traverse une période d'instabilité politique ouvrant la voie à toutes sortes d'ambitions, Liir parviendra-t-il à survivre assez longtemps pour devenir adulte ?

From the bestselling author of WICKED... When Alice fell down the rabbit-hole, she found Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But how did Victorian Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? Gregory Maguire turns his imagination to the question...

A brand-new recording narrated by Cynthia Erivo! The captivating coming-of-age story of the most iconic witch ever to grace our screens and bookshelves. Once upon a time in the land of Oz, a green little girl was born... Young Elphaba is destined to be a witch, she bears the markings from...

A brand-new recording narrated by Cynthia Erivo! 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 story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the...