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Dorothy Gale's trip from Kansas to the Emerald City-in print, on screen, and on stage-has enchanted audiences around the world for more than a century. But what is her magical adventure really about? And can studying such classic tales help today's writers improve their craft?
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: A Story Grid Masterworks Analysis Guide, Shawn Coyne answers these questions and more. In Oz, Coyne finds a pitch-perfect...
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In today's economic and political climate, protecting yourself means asking the right questions. You can't ask the right questions if your mind's encumbered by what you think you may understand. Who's the man behind the curtain? What's this thing we call money? It's not what you think. We've burdened the government with all our problems but do they have the capacity to solve them? Do we want them to?
What's the difference between freedom "of" and...
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Mary Fullerton (1868-1946) and Mabel Singleton (1877-1965) met in Melbourne as suffrage and peace activists in Vida Goldstein's Women's Political Association. They remained together for thirty-five years as loving friends, raising Mabel's son born in 1911. Through her literary friendship with Miles Franklin (1879-1954), Mary Fullerton's last two volumes of poetry were published in the 1940s. Rescued from near destruction, a box of Mary's manuscripts...
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Larry Johnes is a normal 10-year-old boy, who does normal everyday things. But one day something strange happens he is taken to the mystical magical world of Oz join him as he travels the land, meets new interesting people, has amazing adventures and makes his way to Emerald city and back home.
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***2020 Realm Award Winner, Middle Grade Fiction*** Kids have wild imaginations: monsters under their beds, ghosts, the boogeyman, and everything in between.But sometimes, you have to stop and suspend your disbelief for a minute. The unthinkable may just be true for once.Iggy Risner is your typical wise-cracking twelve-year-old. When his younger brother, Oz, wakes him in the middle of the night claiming he heard a monster in the attic, Iggy takes...
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Ranging from the convict settlement of Port Arthur, to the social heights of colonial Tasmanian Society, the gold rush towns of Ballarat and Bendigo, and the ballrooms of Marvelous Melbourne in the 1880s, this stranger-than-fiction book recounts the strange-but-true story of JL Irvine (1847-?). Banker, sporting champion, bon vivant, clubman, committee member, and friend to the colonial elites of Tasmania and Victoria, he was also a man with a secret,...
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How do you best tell the story of Australia's most enigmatic bushranger-Captain Moonlite? The stories he told of his life conflict with the stories told by others, which conflict with the records. A well-educated man, in and out of asylums and prison, who finally found his purpose and his love leading a small gang of young men. Until they followed him into violent chaos. This book is a creative retelling of history, using many perspectives of fact...
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Through a re-examining of colonial era paintings, Hannah sees that White Australia's sense of 'belonging' has a complex and troubled past. Meeting a number of contemporary artists Hannah asks why they are so intrigued with reimagining our colonial history and what relevance this has with our present.
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