Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire Requirements: .MP3 reader, 349 mbOverview: Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. Her brothers have been conscripted into the Tsar’s army and taken as servants in the house of the local wealthy landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny […]
What-the-Dickens by Gregory Maguire Requirements: .MP3 reader, 198 mbOverview: A terrible storm is raging, and ten-year-old Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It’s the story of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush […]
The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire Requirements: .MP3 reader, 315 mbOverview: With the new millennium approaching, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues after being clocked by a Catholic statuette. Her daughter, Tabitha, and her sons scheme to save their mother or surrender her to […]
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (The second book in the Wicked Years series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 562 mbOverview: Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the […]
Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire (The fourth book in the Wicked Years series)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 640 mbOverview: 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 […]