William Shakespeare
Author
Publisher
Cider Mill
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The First-ever, fully illustrated collector's edition of William Shakespeare's celebrated sonnets! In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets features gorgeous full-color artwork throughout that brings The Bard's timeless words to life like never before!
44) King Lear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents Shakespeare's tragedy of a foolish and self-indulgent king who learns, late in life and after terrible suffering, the value of self-knowledge.
45) Othello
Author
Series
Publisher
UDON Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant general in the service of Venice, Othello is also the new husband of the adoring and young Desdemona, whose innocent hero worship has blossomed into love. But can a beautiful girl, so much younger than her husband, truly be faithful? Othello's trusted ensign Iago seems to think not. Can Othello trust him? Can Othello trust anyone?"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Fool novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging--last seen in The Serpent of Venice--washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke's minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Demetrius, instead of Lysander, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 7
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Verona, Italy, gay teens Romeo and Valentine discover first love amid a bloody, centuries-old feud, putting themselves in danger of losing each other forever.
52) Fair Rosaline
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life. Soon though, Rosaline begins to doubt all that Romeo has told her. She breaks off the match, only for Romeo's gaze to turn towards her cousin, thirteen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless, and nobody will leave him alone. Everything is as it should be and yet nothing is right. Over the course of a year of partying, drinking, and flirting to dubious consequence, Hal is tested by brutal family legacies, Catholic guilt,...
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" moves from London after the 2008 financial crisis to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia, in a story of the destructive effect of jealousy and the redemptive power of love.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Presents a modern retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," following the experiences of three people on the run from failed relationships who are transformed by a grieving faerie queen and a scheming homeless man.
57) New boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
1970s, in a suburban D.C. schoolyard. Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hopes to survive his first day. He becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student, Ian, is determined to destroy the budding friendship between the black boy and the golden girl.
59) Storm-wake
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Moss lives alone with her magician father and a dog on a magical island, until a tempest sweeps a wild, not-quite-human boy, Callan, onto its beaches, and the two grow close, despite her father's worries--and then one day, a young man from the outside world is shipwrecked on her island, and after that nothing will be the same again.
60) Dunbar
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills,...