Gregory Maguire

**Pre-order Elphie, the spellbinding prequel to Wicked, now**The global bestseller that inspired the hit musical phenomenon.Now a major movie and record-breaking box office sensation.In this classic tale of good and evil, what if we weren't told the whole story?Long before Dorothy follows the yellow brick road and triumphs over the Wicked Witch of the West, a little girl with emerald-green skin is born in the land of Oz.Elphaba grows up to be smart and prickly, a lonely outsider with an extraordinary talent for magic. Arriving at university, she dares to believe she might finally fit in.But Oz isn't the haven she'd dreamed of. Some of its citizens are in grave danger, and Elphaba is determined to protect them from the Wizard's power.And when the world declares her a wicked witch, Elphaba takes matters into her own hands...Fall under the WICKED spell this year.

Once upon a time . . . nothing was as it seemed.What if Sleeping Beauty were actually a frog princess, cursed forever to weep, sleep . . . and leap? Or the Three Chickens had to outwit Goldifox? What if Cinder-Elephant had the chance to attend the ball of her dreams--can she bake her way to meeting a dashing prince?Zany animals of all species get their own fairy tale endings in these laugh-out-loud twists on the classics from Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked.

This is the book that started it all The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn't nearly as Wicked as we imagined.

A retelling of "Snow White" by the author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Wicked is set in Renaissance Italy and draws a link between the original fairy tale and the Borgia family's infamous practice of poisoning its enemies. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens. Brilliantly inventive, Wicked offers us a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West who, as Maguire tells us, wasn't nearly as Wicked as we imagined.

"[An] engrossing story...endearing and memorable."--Boston Herald"[An] arresting hybrid of mystery, fairy tale, and historical novel."--Detroit Free Press"A tale so movingly told that you will say at the end of the first reading, 'It's been a long time since I've read a book this good.'" --Nashville Tennessean Gregory Maguire proves himself to be "one of contemporary fiction's most assured myth-makers" (Kirkus Reviews) with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, his ingenious and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella fairy tale. Perhaps best known for his dark and breathtaking Oz series The Wicked Years--including the novel Wicked, which inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical--Maguire is a master at upending the ordinary to help us see the familiar in a brilliant new light.