Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow

Author: Peter Guzzardi
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins, 2019
Pages: 176 (3 hours, 16 min)
Rating: Recommend

Synopsis: After a lifetime in book publishing, Peter Guzzardi had edited a remarkable group of diverse authors, from Stephen Hawking to Deepak Chopra, from Carol Barnett to Douglas Adams, from Byron Katie to Geneen Roth. yet everything he'd learned from working with them felt oddly familiar. One day it suddenly became clear: all that wisdom had its roots in a file he'd watched as a child, The Wizard of Oz.

That revelation led to this book. It's a jewel box of insights drawn from Dorothy's heroic journey from helpless in Kansas to powerful in Oz, then back to Kansas, transformed by what she found along the way. In Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow, we discover what the most-matched file in history has to teach us. With that knowledge we become free to embark on our own journey, having activated the power to direct our lives that we possessed all along
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Review: Purely by coincidence, I began listening to this book on the same day that I started reading, Before Dorothy, Hazel Gaynor's latest historical fiction novel. It's been forever and a day since I've watched the movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and even longer since I read Frank L. Baum's book. 

Emerald's of Oz and Before Dorothy were wonderful companion novels, and between the two, served as a great refresher to the original book and movie.