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Oz Stars

 

Page Modified: June 8, 2007

 

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A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are listed alphabetically by author.

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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• Hard Road: A Cat Marsala Mystery
  Author: D'Amato, Barbara
  Publisher: Scribner $ 23 ISBN: 0743200950 Date: 2001
  Booklist
  Cat Marsala knows she's not in Kansas any more when she attends Chicago's centennial Oz festival and witnesses a harrowing scuffle that yields, once the confusion clears, the brutally stabbed corpse of the chief security guard.
  Updated 9.23.05

 

• Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman in the United States
  Author: Gardner, Martin (edt)
  Publisher: St. Martin's Press $ 22.95 ISBN: 031219353X Date: 1998
  Dorothy and friends return in this Oz sequel, this time to New York City, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz". Combining mathematical riddles with technological pyrotechnics and vivid suspense, Martin Gardner has created a new fable celebrating the power of imagination and the lure of an ageless heroine named Dorothy from the turn of the century.
  Updated 9.23.05

 

• Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
  Author: Kaminsky, Stuart M.
  Publisher: St. Martin's Press $ 7.95 ISBN: Date: 1997
  Someone has murdered a munchkin, and young starlet Judy Garland is in danger. M.G.M. hires private detective Toby Peters to protect her, solve the murder, and keep the studio free from scandal. And with the help of Clark Gable and Raymond Chandler, he manages to accomplish these tasks.
  Updated 9.23.05

 

• Wicked
  Author: Maguire, Gregory
  Publisher: ReganBooks $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060391448 Date: 1995
  The Wizard of Oz is one of the most watched, best-loved movies of all time. Everyone who grew up watching it year after year will be fascinated by this twist in the tale--a richly comic, highly literary, and supremely entertaining excursion into the life and times of the infamous Wicked Witch of the West.
  Updated 9.23.05

 

• Son of a Witch
  Author: Maguire, Gregory
  Publisher: Regan $ 26.95 ISBN: 0060548932 Date: 2005
  Kirkus PW
  Ten years after the publication of Wicked, the author returns to the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy killed the Witch.
  Updated 7.7.05

 

• Was
  Author: Ryman, Geoff
  Publisher: Penguin $ 13.95 ISBN: 0140178724 Date: 1992
  Booklist
  This haunting, wildly original novel explores the lives of several characters entwined by The Wizard of Oz--both the novel written by L. Frank Baum and the strangely resonant 1939 film. Was traverses the American landscape to reveal how the human imagination transcends the bleakest circumstance.
  Updated 9.23.05

 

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