Carbone, Courtney
Summary: "William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's 2016
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Summary: Retells familiar Greek myths in the style of social media posts, tweets, and texts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CARBaines, Rebecca.
Summary: Welcome to the snug world of bear dens. Kids will explore these intriguing places, and find our how, when, and why they are used. Then they'll Zigzag through an adventure of discovery: if a den is a bed for a bear, what's a bed for a tiger? Who else hibernates?
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 599.78 BaineSummary: "Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RICPhiladelphia Orchestra
Contents: Danse macabre / Saint-Saëns -- The sorcerer's apprentice / Dukas -- España / Chabrier -- A night on bald mountain / Mussorgsky -- The bartered bride: Dance of the comedians / Smetana -- Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale / Saint-Saëns -- La gioconda: Dance of the hours / Ponchielli -- Hungarian dance No. 5 / Brahms -- The red poppy: Russian sailors' dance / Gliere -- El amor brujo: Ritual fire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: High Performance 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL PhilaSummary: Meet Katherine Minola, Member of Parliament and aspiring Prime Minister. When her advisers suggest that she marry, she reacts with the same fury she brings to everything-and everyone. But one man is going to change her outlook: enter Petruchio. Screenwriter Sally Wainwright updates Shakespeare's romantic farce, with Shirley Henderson as the irascible Katherine; Jaime Murray as her supermodel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Appignanesi, Richard.
Summary: In comics format, presents an adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale about two star-crossed lovers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LEOJacobson, Howard
Summary: Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of “The Merchant of Venice,” Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock as a man of incisive wit and passion, concerned still with questions of identity, parenthood, anti-Semitism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHASummary: Renowned restaurateur Duncan Docherty has built a gastronomic empire, but his sous-chef and maitre d' are cooking up treachery. In this modern retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy, screenwriter Peter Moffat sets the action in a 3-star London restaurant with a kitchen full of flashing blades and bloody business. James McAvoy plays Joe Macbeth, revered by his staff and relied on by Duncan-even to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Nesbø, Jo
Summary: Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESAppignanesi, Richard.
Summary: Retells, in comic book format, Shakespeare's play about political intrigue, personal betrayal, and the aftermath of a brutal assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHASummary: Theo and Polly host a party in Dream Park to celebrate their daughter Hermia's engagement to James, but when Xander, Hermia's true love, shows up to dispute the betrothal, it takes magical intervention to set things right. Peter Bowker adapts Shakespeare's unusual romantic comedy where the problems of mortal love are mirrored in interlocking plots between Fairyland and the modern world. Bill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Chevalier, Tracy
Summary: Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chevalier 2017Shakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHASt. Aubyn, Edward
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STASummary: Amorous sparks fly alongside barbed repartee in this hip adaptation of Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy. A modern television news studio provides the setting, transforming Beatrice and Benedick-played by Sarah Parish and Damian Lewis-into bickering co-anchors. Meanwhile, Don, a jealous studio tech, tries to sabotage the budding love affair between Claude the sports guy and Hero the weather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Atwood, Margaret
Summary: Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atwood 2016Nesbo, Jo
Summary: "Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesb©ı's Macbeth centers on a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in power...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NESNesbø, Jo
Summary: Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESShakespeare, William
Summary: Shakespearean scholars have redesigned this play in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction, and a note on the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHATyler, Anne
Summary: 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 is expected by her eccentric father to marry his assistant to prevent the young man's deportation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Tyler 2016Brauner, Barbara.
Summary: "Lacey Unger-Ware has broken one of the Fairy Godmother rules, and if she doesn't help fulfill Martin Shembly's wish, there will be a chilly magical price to pay"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2014