title: The Next Queen of Heaven: A Novel
author:  Gregory Maguire 
description: Maguire, author of the popular Wicked series of novels, which gives imaginative backstory to the events taking place in The Wizard of Oz, brings his creative storytelling from the realm of fantasy to the world of realitybut just barely. Quickly but delightfully read, Maguires new novel has as its canvas the entire little town of Thebes in Upstate New York. His natural compassion for peoples quirks gives his razor-sharp satire on small-town life a comfortable bed on which to rest. Maguire looks backward in time, to the advent of the new millennium in 2000. His theme is that, at this significant historical moment, town characters, including the church-lady Leontina Scale and her profanity-spewing daughter and the gay choir director, now face having their personal choices being called into question but eventually seeing the disparate pieces of their lives reconciled. Amusing entertainment but with a serious side as well. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Once word is out that the Wicked author has a new book, whether it is part of that series or not, requests will begin flowing into the public library --Brad Hooper
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  In post-Second World War Ireland, two women are waiting for ambitious Michael
  Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher and most people think
  she is promised to him. Just a few have guessed that he has secretly begun to
  woo Sarah, whose brutal fisherman father would kill her if he knew.
  
  Both Rosie and Sarah love Michael, both hope to become his wife and their
  lives will interweave in a tale of tangled secrets, old promises and new
  feuds. Michael Malone’s choice will have fateful consequences for everyone –
  especially, in due course, for his young daughter.
  
  This is the first in a new sequence of novels with a brilliant cast of
  characters and a story that will lead to Liverpool in Mary Kate