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The Shakespeare stealer The Shakespeare stealer Gary L. Blackwood Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way… OL121032W
Mistress Shakespeare Mistress Shakespeare Karen Harper A delicious and intriguing historical novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare's secret wife— by New York Times–bestselling author, Karen Harper.In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty A… OL15078675W
Interred with their bones Interred with their bones Jennifer Lee Carrel On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and the theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor Rosalind Howard gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a ground… OL16061933W
Hark! Hark! Ed McBain Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future cri… OL167119W
Love disguised Love disguised Lisa Klein After a mixed-up courtship with the Hathaway sisters ends badly, eighteen-year-old Will Shakespeare jumps at the chance to go to London, where he can pursue his dream of becoming an actor and where h… OL18010425W
Whatshisface Whatshisface Gordon Korman When 12-year-old Cooper Vega moves for the third time in five years, he receives a state-of-the-art smartphone to help him stay in touch with old friends. He's had phones before, but this one is bugg… OL19740193W
Dark Aemilia Dark Aemilia O'Reilly, Sally (Novelist) The story of a Venetian musician's daughter, Aemilia Bassano, who a decade after the death of Elizabeth I begs help from her former lover, William Shakespeare, when her son catches the plague. "The … OL19976645W
The secret life of William Shakespeare The secret life of William Shakespeare Jude Morgan A sumptuously detailed imagining of the private world of the master bard chronicles the transformation of an unwilling craftsman and resentful son into a husband, father and genius playwright in Rena… OL19977817W
The tutor The tutor Andrea Chapin A "novel about love, passion, and ambition that imagines the muse of William Shakespeare and the tumultuous year they spend together"--Amazon.com. OL19993246W
License to quill License to quill Della Quercia, Jacopo (Historian) "License to Quill is a page-turning James Bond-esque spy thriller starring William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe during history's real life Gunpowder Plot. The story follows the fascinating gol… OL20017014W
Tales from Shakespeare Tales from Shakespeare Marcia Williams Travel back to the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's day as Marcia Williams brings fourteen of the Bard's best-loved plays to life. Discover why Romeo and Juliet's love affair was doomed, who murdered H… OL20876894W
Shakespeare's mistress Shakespeare's mistress Karen Harper England, 1601. When Queen Elizabeth's men come looking for William Shakespeare - a rumoured Catholic in a time of Catholic-Protestant intrigue and insurrection - they first question a beautiful, dark… OL20923627W
His Dark Lady His Dark Lady Victoria Lamb London, 1583. When young, aspiring playwright William Shakespeare encounters Lucy Morgan, one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the two fall passionately in love. He declares Lucy the inspira… OL21058257W
Will Will Christopher Rush March 1616: William Shakespeare is dying, with his lawyer at his bedside. It is time to dictate his will. But how can a man put his affairs in order before he's come to terms with his past? The autho… OL3057832W
The Juliet Club The Juliet Club Suzanne Harper When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns … OL3293094W
Black Swan Black Swan Farrukh Dhondy While taking care of an elderly man, Rose realizes that they are being watched, and becomes caught up in a mystery going back to Elizabethan England involving Shakespeare, Marlowe, and an extraordina… OL4302403W
Swan Town Swan Town Michael J. Ortiz The witty and engaging diary of Susanna Shakespeare, the young daughter of William Shakespeare, from a first–time author. Thirteen–year–old Susanna Shakespeare longs for something exciting to happ… OL5817239W
Any man so daring Any man so daring Sarah A. Hoyt (Shakespearean Fantasies #3) William Shakespeare has become the preeminent playwright of Elizabethan England, but his success comes with a price--his son Hamnet has disappeared in the realm of th… OL5961303W
This Must Be Love This Must Be Love Tui T. Sutherland Two good friends tell of strange occurrences between themselves and the boys they like during a high school production of "Romeo and Juliet," which are reminiscent of the magical world of William Sha… OL5971119W
Interred with Their Bones Interred with Their Bones Jennifer Lee Carrell A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found.A killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities.A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive. . . .On th… OL8201348W
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