05109cam a2200757 4500 1443736795 TxAuBib 20240719120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780525622123 0525622128 B07D235BQC Amazon ad89d42c-3103-4985-bf9e-4bcadeac3363 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4239880 OverDrive (Product ID) 588764 588764 588764 TxAuBib Letts, Elizabeth. Finding Dorothy [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2019. family. relationships. actress. Friendship. family life. 1939. historical novel. Judy Garland. marriage. love. South Dakota. women. Historical Fiction. Women's Fiction. Family relationships. wizard of oz. Hollywood. widow. mother daughter relationship. mother daughter. biographical fiction. historical novels. the Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum. women's lives. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. historical fiction books. wizard of oz book. hollywood stories. books about hollywood. biographical novels. judy garland book. judy garland books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2674kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>This richly imagined novel tells the story behind <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i>, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, Maud.</b><br /> <b>“A breathtaking read that will transport you over the rainbow and into the heart of one of America’s most enduring fairy tales.”—Lisa Wingate, author of&#160;<i>Before We Were Yours</i></b><br /> Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank’s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book—because she’s the only one left who knows its secrets.<br /> But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of “Over the Rainbow,” Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette’s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired&#160;<i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i>. Judy reminds Maud of a young&#160;girl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending. Now, with the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her—the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.<br /> The author of two <i>New York Times</i> bestselling nonfiction books<i>, The Eighty-Dollar Champion</i> and <i>The Perfect Horse</i>, Elizabeth Letts is a master at discovering and researching a rich historical story and transforming it into a page-turner. <i>Finding Dorothy</i> is the result of Letts’s journey into the amazing lives of Frank and Maud Baum. Written as fiction but based closely on the truth, Elizabeth Letts’s new book tells a story of love, loss, inspiration, and perseverance, set in America’s heartland.<br /> <b>Praise for</b> <i><b>Finding Dorothy</b></i><br /> “In some ways reminiscent of Jerry Stahl’s excellent&#160;<i>I, Fatty</i>,&#160;Letts’&#160;<i>Finding Dorothy</i>&#160;combines exhaustive research with expansive imagination, blending history and speculation into&#160;a seamless tapestry. . . .&#160;It’s a testament to Letts’ skill that she can capture on the page, without benefit of audio, that same emotion we have all felt sometime over the last 80 years while listening to ‘Over the Rainbow.’”<b>—<i>BookPage</i>&#160;(starred review)</b>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-07-18 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ad89d42c-3103-4985-bf9e-4bcadeac3363&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ad89d42c-3103-4985-bf9e-4bcadeac3363&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ad89d42c-3103-4985-bf9e-4bcadeac3363&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)