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• Dating Dr. Dil

  Sharma, Nisha, 1985-

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  Nisha Sharma’s hilarious new romantic comedy inspired by The Taming of the Shrew features a love-phobic TV doctor who must convince a love-obsessed homebody they are destined to be together. (NoveList) #romantic comedies #retellings #steamy

• Macbeth

  Nesbø, Jo, 1960-

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  A modern retelling of Macbeth 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Henry Henry

  a Novel

  Bratton, Allen

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  Amidst the crumbling grandeur of his aristocratic family and the dawning of a new era, a young, queer Duke’s son navigates love, loss and the terrifying burden of legacy in a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Henriad. (NoveList) #literary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Boy

  Chevalier, Tracy

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  An imaginative retelling of Shakespeare's Othello that takes place in 1970s America. 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fair Rosaline

  Solomons, Natasha

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  Shattering everything we thought we knew about Romeo and Juliet, Fair Rosaline is the spellbinding prequel to Shakespeare's best known tale, which exposes Romeo as a predator with a long history of pursuing much younger girls. Bold,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Macbeth

  a Tale of Horror

  Ascari, Stefano, 1975-

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  Deep within the walls of Castle Dunsinane, a seed of madness begins to bloom. Spurred on by the prophesies of witches, and the whispers of his scheming wife, Lord Macbeth plots the death of his friend, King Duncan. This one cruel act soon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hag-seed

  William Shakespeare's The Tempest Retold

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Follows the retribution plot of a deposed artistic director who teaches prison inmates while consulting with a fantasy child who has taken the place of the daughter he lost years earlier. (NoveList) #literary fiction #retellings #Canadian

• William Shakespeare's As You Like It

  a Radical Retelling

  Cardinal, Cliff, 1985-

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  The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, Indigenous creator and cultural…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Interred With Their Bones

  a Novel

  Carrell, Jennifer Lee

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  Receiving a mysterious box from her eccentric mentor, who claims it contains a newly found work by Shakespeare, theater director and scholar Kate Shelton is horrified when her theater is burned to the ground and her mentor killed.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shakespeare

  the Man Who Pays the Rent

  Dench, Judi, 1934-

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  A noted actor opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. (NoveList) #nonfiction #interviews #memoir

• The King of Infinite Space

  Faye, Lyndsay

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  After his Broadway theater baron father dies mysteriously, Ben Dane, his best friend Horatio and his artist ex-fiance Lia, on one explosive night, are drawn into otherworldly events where the only outcome is death. (NoveList) #contemporary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Air and Shadows

  Gruber, Michael, 1940-

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  Desperately typing out the details of a case that puts him at the center of a deadly conspiracy, intellectual property lawyer Jake Mishkin recounts how a bookstore fire led to the discovery of the whereabouts of one of the most valuable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mistress Shakespeare

  Harper, Karen (Karen S.)

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  Her engagement to William Shakespeare broken by his forced marriage to a pregnant Anne Hathaway, Anne Whateley pursues a clandestine affair with the bard that is complicated by Elizabeth I's campaign to eradicate Catholicism. (NoveList)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Two Wrongs Make a Right

  Liese, Chloe

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  There's much ado about everything when two adversaries become allies and fake a relationship to fool their meddling friends in this swoony, inclusive reimagining of the Bard's beloved play Much Ado About Nothing. (NoveList) #romantic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warm Bodies

  a Novel

  Marion, Isaac, 1981-

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  Alienated from his fellow zombies because of his dislike of having to kill humans and his enjoyment of Sinatra music, "R" meets a living girl who sharply contrasts with his cold and dreary world and who he resolves to protect in spite of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fool

  Moore, Christopher, 1957-

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  In 1288, as King Lear watches his kingdom descend into chaos, the king's fool, Pocket, and Pocket's apprentice, Drool, take it upon themselves to restore order amidst the mayhem, and in the process make a surprising discovery about their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Our Yesterdays

  a Novel of Lady Macbeth

  Morris, Joel H. (Joel Holloway),

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  A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about the ambition, power, and fate that define one of literature’s most notorious figures: Lady Macbeth. (NoveList) #historical fiction #retellings

• Hamnet & Judith

  O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

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  A moving story about the death of William Shakespeare's 11-year-old son Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play, Hamlet. (NoveList) #historical fiction #literary fiction

• If We Were Villains

  Rio, M. L.

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  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 describes his past as a Shakespearean actor whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen Hereafter

  a Novel

  Schuler, Isabelle

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  A suspenseful, sweeping historical epic, Lady MacBethad is the origin story of the woman who inspired one of Shakespeare's most iconic characters. (NoveList) #historical fiction