PreviewsRose Napoli

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  Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)

  Rose Napoli

  As a 15-year-old, Laura was a dream student to her flailing English teacher, Alan Wells. Now at 25, she has written her first novel, called Dear Mr. Wells, and she wants him to be the first to read it. This coming-of-age story examines a formative relationship and the grey areas of consent.

  (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, $15.95 Paperback, 72 pages, ISBN: 978-19-27922-58-3)  

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  Mad Madge

  Rose Napoli

  Wild and raucous, this play follows Margaret Cavendish, a 17th-century woman who wants to be famous and taken seriously as a writer and thinker, and who goes about achieving her ambitions the only way she knows how, ditching her family to join the court of an unruly queen.

  (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing, $18.95 Paperback, 92 pages, ISBN: 978-19-90738-87-6)