pstrongMultimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire unveils the first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years, featuring Elphaba's granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain.strongbrbrTen years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with emWickedem by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac emOut of Ozem.p pBut out of Oz isn't gone for good. Maguire's new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after emWickedem first flew into our lives. p pVolume one, emThe Brides of Maracoorem, finds Elphaba's granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices. p pAs the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island's civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an enti