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Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061762598 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.
Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061762598 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Is this new land a place where magics really happen? From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.... We all have heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty . . . and what curses accompanied Cinderella's exquisite looks? Extreme beauty is an affliction Set against the rich backdrop of seventeenth-century Holland, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister tells the story of Iris, an unlikely heroine who finds herself swept from the lowly streets of Haarlem to a strange world of wealth, artifice, and ambition. Iris's path quickly becomes intertwined with that of Clara, the mysterious and unnaturally beautiful girl destined to become her sister. Clara was the prettiest child, but was her life the prettiest tale? While Clara retreats to the cinders of the family hearth, burning all memories of her past, Iris seeks out the shadowy secrets of her new household--and the treacherous truth of her former life. God and Satan snarling at each other like dogs.... Imps and fairy godmotbers trying to undo each other's work. How we try to pin the world between opposite extremes! Far more than a mere fairy-tale, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a novel of beauty and betrayal, illusion and understanding, reminding us that deception can be unearthed--and love unveiled--in the most unexpected of places.
Author: Susanna Carr Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9780758210807 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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Big-city businesswoman Stephanie Monroe enjoys the "hospitality" of Mayfield's finest jail after Sheriff Jack Logan mistakenly arrests her as a prostitute, an encounter that leads to unexpected romance between the reformed bad boy and this lady who thought she had left her small-town roots behind. Reprint.
Author: Jessica Callan Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141030836 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 355
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Which legendary boozer was kicked out of Spearmint Rhino for feeling up the dancers? Who was the football star who invited Jessica to take part in a threesome on a yacht in Monte Carlo? What strange sexual practice involving ice lolly containers particularly appeals to a certain English popstar? Showbiz writer and ex-Daily Mirrorcolumnist Jessica Callan takes us behind the scenes of Celebsville, deep into the heart of the indignities, the lies and the dodgy deals. In this slick and terribly indiscreet memoir, she lifts the lid on what celebrities get up to at those after show parties, how PRs really operate and to what ends she goes to obtain huge tabloid scoops.
Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061748668 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 376
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“A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.” —Boston Sunday Globe Publishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguire’s Lost “a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.” Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and the Jack the Ripper stories, the bestselling author of The Wicked Years canon creates a captivating fairy tale for the modern world. With Lost, Maguire—who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Oz, and inspired the creation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster Wicked—delivers a haunting tale of shadows and phantoms and things going bump in the night, confirming his reputation as “one of contemporary fiction’s most assured myth-makers” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author: Augustine of Hippo Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor ISBN: 1681922851 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 337
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“A contemporary selection of Catholic classics, curated for the modern reader by Our Sunday Visitor in the spirit of our founder, Archbishop John Francis Noll.”
Author: Kali Schnieders Publisher: NavPress Publishing Group ISBN: 9781576837931 Category : Christian women Languages : en Pages : 0
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An estimated 90 million Americans all know that blending a family is hard work. You're Not My Mom supplies insight, challenge, and the one thing every stepmother and daughter craves: a happy ending.
Author: Gregory Maguire Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006196056X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. One day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm—and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia—decadent children of a wicked pope—no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a year's quest to reclaim a relic of the original Tree of Knowledge, he leaves Bianca under the care, so to speak, of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest there can be found salvation as well. . . . A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White—and has a truth and beauty all its own.
Author: Gregory Maguire
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Author: Susanna Carr
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Author: Thomas Brookes (Preacher at Margaret's, New Fish Street.)
Author: Gregory Maguire
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Author: Kali Schnieders
Author: Gregory Maguire
Author: Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.)