The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard

8 best books like The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard (Norrie Epstein): The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, Internment, Lightning, Jude the Obscure, A Lesson Before Dying, Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team, Hey, Kiddo

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Author	Dalai Lama XIV
ISBN	0399185046

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.
 
The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness...

Internment

Author

Samira Ahmed

Rebellions are built on hope.

Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.

With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend...

Lightning

Author	Dean Koontz
ISBN	0425192032

"A gripping novel" from the #1 New York Times bestselling author-now in trade paperback for the first time.

In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying.

Years...

Jude the Obscure

Author	Thomas Hardy
ISBN	0486452433

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A Lesson Before Dying

Author	Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN	0375702709

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university,...

Izzy, Willy-Nilly

Author	Cynthia Voigt
ISBN	1416903399

One moment can change a life forever.
Fifteen-year-old Izzy has it all -- a loving family, terrific friends, a place on the cheerleading squad. But her comfortable world crumbles when a date with a senior ends in a car crash and she loses her right leg.
Suddenly nothing is the same. The simplest...

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Author	Steve Sheinkin
ISBN	1596439548

Jim Thorpe: super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, Native American.

Pop Warner: indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad.

Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams...

Hey, Kiddo

Author

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Hey, Kiddo is the graphic memoir of author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Raised by his colorful grandparents, who adopted him because his mother was an incarcerated heroin addict, Krosoczka didn't know his father's name until he saw his birth certificate when registering for a school ski trip....