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  Sky Island (version 2)

  L. Frank Baum

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  A little girl (Trot) and her friend (Cap'n Bill) team up with a young boy named Button-Bright. Button-Bright had found a magical umbrella in his attic. He meets the kind girl and sailor and they are transported to a different world in the sky where he and his friends face many dangers. (Summary by francesb)

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  Alexander Sands of Ammon

  Valerio Massimo Manfredi

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  Continuing the international bestselling saga of Alexander the Great, Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians.In a seemingly impossible venture, the mighty Alexander and his men storm Persian fortresses and harbours, crippling King Darius's domain. Even the legendary Halicarnassus is defeated by the Macedonian armies. But there is danger ahead. The island city of Tyre and the towers of Gaza prove to be formidable obstacles. Embattled but undeterred, Alexander's army surges forth over land and sea to the mysterious deserts of Egypt.There, in the sands, lies the Oracle of Ammon, waiting to reveal an amazing truth to Alexander. One that will change his already astonishing life . . .

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  The Forty Rules of Love - A...

  Elif Shafak

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  In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love.Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams' search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, which offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.

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  Shakespeare Complete Works

  William Shakespeare

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  The Comedies:
  
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  All's Well That Ends Well
  As You Like It
  Love’s Labour ’s Lost
  Measure for Measure
  Much Ado About Nothing
  The Comedy of Errors
  The Merchant of Venice
  The Merry Wives of Windsor
  The Taming of the Shrew
  The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  Twelfth Night; or, What you will
  
  
  The Romances:
  
  Cymbeline
  Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  The Tempest
  The Winter's Tale
  
  
  The Tragedies:
  
  King Lear
  Romeo and Juliet
  The History of Troilus and Cressida
  The Life and Death of Julius Caesar
  The Life of Timon of Athens
  The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
  The Tragedy of Coriolanus
  The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  The Tragedy of Macbeth
  The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
  Titus Andronicus
  
  
  The Histories:
  
  The Life and Death of King John
  The Life and Death of King Richard the Second
  The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
  The first part of King Henry the Fourth
  The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  The Life of King Henry V
  The first part of King Henry the Sixth
  The second part of King Henry the Sixth
  The third part of King Henry the Sixth
  The Life of King Henry the Eighth
  
  
  The Poetical Works:
  
  The Sonnets
  Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
  A Lover's Complaint
  The Rape of Lucrece
  Venus and Adonis
  The Phoenix and the Turtle
  The Passionate Pilgrim

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  The Ghost of Apache Creek

  Joseph A. West

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  The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice...

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  The Optickal Illusion - A Novel

  Rachel Halliburton

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  Based on a true story, Rachel Halliburton’s novel The Optickal Illusion is about a female artist seeking renown in patriarchal British high society. 
   
  It is 1797 and in Georgian London, nothing is certain anymore: the future of the monarchy is in question, the city is aflame with conspiracies, and the French could invade any day. Amidst this feverish atmosphere, the American painter Benjamin West is visited by a dubious duo comprised of a blundering father and vibrant daughter, the Provises, who claim they have a secret that has obsessed painters for centuries: the Venetian techniques of master painter Titian. 
   
  West was once the most celebrated painter in London, but he hasn’t produced anything of note in years, so against his better judgment he agrees to let the intriguing Ann Jemima Provis visit his studio and demonstrate the techniques from the document. What unravels reveals more than West has ever understood?about himself, the treachery of the art world, and the seductive promise of greatness.  
   
  Drawn from a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal Academy, The Optickal Illusion demonstrates the lengths women must go to make their mark on a society that seeks to underplay their abilities. 
   
  “A remarkable true story of vanity and delusion, which Halliburton turns into a gripping and only partly fictional whodunnit . . . brings the artists and their art to colorful life and brushes in streaks of feminism, via Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as dark shadows of the French Revolution.” —Award–winning Author John Spurling 
   
  “A vibrant portrait of an age of political and artistic revolution as well as a gripping story.” —Library Journal

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