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Wake (Stylized WAKE) is a 2008 novel by Lisa McMann centered on seventeen-year-old Janie Hannagan's involuntary power which thrusts her into others' dreams.The novel follows Janie through parts of her young adulthood, focusing mainly on the events that occur during her senior year, in which she meets an enigmatic elderly woman, and becomes involved with Cabel, a loner and purported drug-dealer ...
A love story, a satire of academic criticism, a horror tale about a dead body found in an apartment alongside mysterious claw marks, Danielewski’s 2000 debut is a chilling mix that is hard to ...
Gone is a bestselling book series written by Michael Grant. [ 1 ] The series is centered on the fictional Southern California town of Perdido Beach, in which every human aged 15 and older vanishes.
The Wake is a 2014 debut novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. [1] Written in an imaginary language, a hybrid of Old English and Modern English , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] it tells of Buccmaster of Holland , [ 3 ] an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed. [ 4 ]
The Watersong series by the bestselling young adult fantasy paranormal author Amanda Hocking consists of four books: Wake, Lullaby, Tidal and Elegy.Hocking, who previously had success as a self-published author, signed a book deal with St. Martin’s Press worth $2 million.
Gilligan's Wake (ISBN 0-312-29123-X) is a 2003 novel, loosely based on the 1960s CBS sitcom Gilligan's Island, written by Esquire film and television critic Tom Carson. The title is derived from the title of the TV show and Finnegans Wake , the final work of Irish novelist James Joyce .
The story takes place aboard the Dormire, a starship carrying thousands of prospective colonists from Earth to a planet in the Tau Ceti star system. All the passengers are in coldsleep; only a six-person crew of cloned former criminals remains awake through the generations-long journey, each of them recloned and imprinted with their continually updated memories as they age and die.
Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind," died in 1967 at age 53 from tuberculosis. She also starred in "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Marlon Brando.