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Summary: "After waking up in the hospital, Jaye returns to school to discover a mysteriously familiar boy in her class and the trappings of Shakespeare's plays all around her"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WESKorman, Gordon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KORSchmidt, Gary D.
Summary: During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Shakespeare scholar Kate Stanley is given a mysterious box that holds the first piece in a Shakespeare puzzle; however, before she sets out on the trail of a 400-year-old mystery, the Globe Theater burns and a body is found, murdered in the manner of Hamlet's father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHammad, Isabella
Summary: After years away from her family's homeland and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her acting career and now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMHammad, Isabella
Summary: "A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a Division of EDC Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 822.33 CLAO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: "A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'FACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FiC OFACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction O'FarrellHawke, Simon.
Summary: Out of work because of the plague, fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and would-be thespian Symington Smythe become involved in the murder of a wealthy merchant trader by a young craftsman, a situation that inspires a new play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWSharratt, Mary
Summary: Disguising herself as a man to escape her loveless marriage and enjoy the exclusive freedoms of men, aspiring writer Aemilia Lanier falls in love and runs away with ragged poet William Shakespeare, with whom she secretly writes plays that bring him fame years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHABlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: The winter of 1602 brings many changes for Widge, a young apprentice at London's Globe Theatre, as he becomes infatuated with Shakespeare's daughter Judith, attempts to write a play, learns more about his past, endangers himself to help a friend, acquiresa new identity, and finds a new purpose in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLABausch, Richard
Summary: "A novel about a close-knit theater community in Memphis and one turbulent, transformative production of King Lear"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUBlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLABrandreth, Benet
Summary: Venice, 1586.William Shakespeare is disguised as a steward to the English Ambassador. He and his actor friends, Oldcastle and Hemming, possess a deadly secret: the names of the Catholic spies in England who seek to destroy Queen Elizabeth. Before long the Popes agents begin to close in on them, so fleeing the city is the players only option.In Verona, Aemelia, the daughter of a Duke, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACornwell, Bernard
Summary: In the heart of Elizabethan England, Richard Shakespeare dreams of a glittering career in one of the London playhouses, a world dominated by his older brother, William. But he is a penniless actor, making ends meet through a combination of a beautiful face, petty theft and a silver tongue. As William's star rises, Richard's onetime gratitude is souring and he is sorely tempted to abandon family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORGaiman, Neil.
Summary: Brings to a conclusion the story of Dream, and includes a tribute to Shakespeare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 1997
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Summary: Rebecca Lopez and William Shakespeare first encounter each other in a London graveyard where she is burying her betrothed and he his mentor and best friend. Their paths cross again as they seek to avenge these untimely deaths, she joining in her family's mission to rescue fellow Jews from the Spanish Inquisition, he searching for the murderer among London's criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELHicks, Deron R.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Colophon Letterford and her cousin Julian continue their quest to uncover their family's treasure as new clues lead them to Oxford, England, seeking to unravel a connection to Christopher Marlowe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICPaton Walsh, Jill
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATMorgan, Jude
Summary: "There are so few established facts about how the son of a glove maker from Warwickshire became one of the greatest writers of all time that some people doubt he could really have written so many astonishing plays. We know that he married Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant and six years older than he, at the age of eighteen, and that one of their children died of the plague. We know that he left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBlackwood, Gary L.
Summary: In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLAHawke, Simon.
Summary: Will Shakespeare and Symington "Tuck" Smythe land in the middle of a murder mystery when the bumbling detectives and their band of thespians furnish theatrical entertainment at a large wedding pageant and the bride turns up dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWChapin, Andrea.
Summary: Katharine de L'Isle, a young widow living at Lufanwal Hall during Queen Elizabeth's brutal persecution of the English Catholics in 1590, is thrown into turmoil when the family priest is murdered and a new schoolmaster named William Shakespeare arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAGuthrie, Donna
Summary: "Can a young WIlliam Shakespeare capture the right words when inspiration strikes?"--publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020