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This and That: Celebrate Shakespeare's April Birthday with these books inspired by his works! April 2022 |
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The last true poets of the sea
by Julia Drake
Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
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Station eleven : a novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates.
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Fool
by Christopher Moore
The author of A Dirty Job, Bloodsucking Fiends, and numerous
additional best-sellers applies his satirical wit and offbeat storytelling style to a wacky new adventure set in an inventive universe.
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Macbeth
by Jo Nesbø
A modern retelling of "Macbeth" by the award-winning author of the
Harry Hole series is set in a run-down industrial town in the 1970s
and follows the efforts of a popular but increasingly corrupt police
officer and his calculating casino owner girlfriend to work with a
powerful local drug dealer to murder a professional rival and set up his best friend.
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If we were villians
by M. L. Rio
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerousways.
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Othello
by Crystal Silvermoon
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Othello," in which the general in the service of Venice and new husband to young Desdemona is manipulated by his trusted ensign Iago to question his wife's faithfulness.
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A thousand acres : a novel
by Jane Smiley
On a prosperous Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence
Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's "King Lear."
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Vinegar girl : The taming of the shrew retold
by Anne Tyler
A modern retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" follows the
experiences of a preschool teacher who alienates others by speaking
her mind and who manages her family's home before she is expected
by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
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The gap of time : The Winter's Tale retold
by Jeanette Winterson
A debut entry in an international series designed to retell the Bard's
most renowned plays in 21st-century settings as written by leading modern authors reimagines "The Winter's Tale" in modern London
and a storm-ravaged America in the aftermath of the 2008 financial
crisis.
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