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Othello (Shakespeare for Everyone Else #2)   by C.E. Wilson Date of Publication: December 23, 2013 Blurb: Shakespeare's work features some of the most memorable stories and characters ever created, yet for too many curious readers the combination of ultra-dense dialogue and unfamiliar historical settings make tackling the Bard's work something between a tedious chore and a confusing mess of bird-bolts and quondam carpet-mongers. While it's nearly impossible to replicate or improve on these works, it is (thanks to their timeless nature) possible to make them more accessible to a wider audience. In this Young Adult retelling of one of William Shakespeare's most memorable plays, join C.E. Wilson as she breathes new life into Othello, the second book in her series Shakespeare for Everyone Else. When Archer decides that he's had enough of Orion and Devony running what he thought was going to be his school he takes desperate measures to ruin...

We have a YA sci-fi blog tour today. We are one of the stops on the Blood Crown Blog Tour . For our stop, we have a guest post by author Allie Cross and there's a tour-wide giveaway. Blood Crown  by Ali Cross YA science fiction Paperback Published February 20th 2014 by Novel Ninjutsu About BLOOD CROWN:  Serantha is the daughter of the Emperor of the West, who rules over the remnant of humanity who escaped a dying Earth and took to the stars a thousand years ago. With no habitable planets found during their exile, the android Servants who were supposed to care for them rose up, took the name of Mind, and murdered her father. Now the androids amuse themselves by forcing humans like her into mindless drudgery. But flashes of memory hint that Sera is no ordinary human. On the other side of the galaxy, Nicolai, Son of the East, has abandoned his crown and joined the rebel forces in the war against the Mind. Humans have no real chance... unless the enhance...