false 3124249 11 <p>In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion.</p> <p>While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, a figure known as Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West. Abandoned as a cub, his path from infancy is no Yellow Brick Road. In the wake of laws that oppress talking Animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the warmongering Emperor of Oz.</p> <p><i>A Lion Among Men</i> chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?</p> <p>Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.</p> 3155594 book 1 10 2008 A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, Book 3) total:2151|5:252|4:539|3:822|2:422|1:116| 2151 6842 5520 545 2 10 true false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 10:36:27 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 23:42:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 5 false true Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 25 09:38:05 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 13:19:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 11:52:49 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 11:53:26 -0800 2009
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