After The Wake

Author : Karen Healey
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316215007
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When We Wake written by Karen Healey and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy. Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027--she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice. But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies--and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened. Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity--even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future isn't all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future? Award-winning author Karen Healey has created a haunting, cautionary tale of an inspiring protagonist living in a not-so-distant future that could easily be our own.

Author : Brendan Behan
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847177301
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After The Wake written by Brendan Behan and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brendan Behan's genius was to strike a chord between critic and common man. When he died, at the age of 41, he was arguably the most celebrated Irish writer of the twentieth century. After the Wake is a collection of seven prose works and a series of articles. It includes all that exists of an unfinished novel, 'The Catacombs', and pieces together items whose comic and fanciful accounts evoke Flann O'Brien. Also featured are works of acknowledged excellence, 'The Confirmation Suit' and 'A Woman of No Standing'. This writing bears all the hallmarks of the author's talent – an ability to bring characters to life quickly and unforgettably, a sharp ear for dialogue and dialect, and a natural vocation for story-telling. This diverse collection is a delightful and entertaining windfall from one of Ireland's most colourful writers. An essential complement to Behan's master works.

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979076
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wake written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.

Author : Francis Daulerio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692417652
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If and When We Wake written by Francis Daulerio and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you pair a poet and a thriving singer-songwriter together? You get the marriage of intellect, artistry and a damn good book in your hands.If & When We Wake is the product of winters and springs. It has been buried under snowpack, thawed, cultivated, scorched by the sun, and buried yet again. The result is a book of poetry and art that shines light on the desperation, helplessness, and loss that everyone feels, and tries to find the beauty of acceptance and growth. It examines the necessity of finding meaning in life after experiencing death.This collection is an attempt to crack back through the ice and rip out a life that emits a light and a heat. It is the woods. It is the grass poking up between toes and tiny bits of soil underneath fingernails. It is alive, and it will sprout and grow.

Author : Emma Griffiths
Publisher : Harmony Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 163476031X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After I Wake written by Emma Griffiths and published by Harmony Ink Press. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a botched suicide attempt, Carter Rogers must fix her relationships with family, friends, and the world of poetry.

Author : Jordan Rivet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781725001992
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wake Me After the Apocalypse written by Jordan Rivet and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a killer comet hurtles for the earth, 18-year-old Joanna Murphy is selected to wait out the apocalypse in an underground bunker. She enters cryosleep with her close-knit team, preparing to resettle the planet after the atmosphere clears in two hundred years. Joanna is the only one who wakes up. Faced with a bunker full of bones and a blocked exit, Joanna must claw her way to the surface, figure out what happened to her team, and try not to panic-or die. That's going to be tricky if she's the only person left in the world. From the author of The Seabound Chronicles, Steel and Fire, and Empire of Talents comes a story of resilience and optimism at the end of the world.

Author : Elisa Donovan
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738768383
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wake Me When You Leave written by Elisa Donovan and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Grief, and Healing in Hollywood and Beyond After prominent roles in Clueless; Sabrina, the Teenage Witch; and Beverly Hills 90210; Elisa's career was on the fast track. Until her show is unexpectedly cancelled, her relationship ends, and her father is diagnosed with terminal cancer. This book chronicles Elisa's journey out of despair and heartbreak, with awe-inspiring visitations, dreams, and inexplicable synchronicities that could only be her father letting her know that he's watching over her from the afterlife. Sometimes the universe sends us on a journey that we didn't know we needed. By sharing the lessons and challenges that the universe sent to her, Elisa inspires those who are learning to let go after a loss so they can live again with authenticity, humor, and hope.

Author : Kevin Toolis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306921456
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Father's Wake written by Kevin Toolis and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a daily roll call of the recently departed. The islanders go in great numbers, young and old alike, to be with their dead. They keep vigil with the corpse and the bereaved company through the long hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands and carry the coffin on their own shoulders. The islanders cherish the dead--and amid the sorrow, they celebrate life, too. In My Father's Wake, acclaimed author and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis unforgettably describes his own father's wake and explores the wider history and significance of this ancient and eternal Irish ritual. Perhaps we, too, can all find a better way to deal with our mortality--by living and loving as the Irish do.

Author : Maggie Shayne
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460322487
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wake to Darkness written by Maggie Shayne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reunion between a cop and clairvoyant who knows him like no other leads to danger in this romantic suspense from a New York Times–bestselling author. Rachel de Luca’s uncanny sense of perception is the key to her success as a self-help celebrity. Even before she regained her sight, she had a gift for seeing people’s most carefully hidden secrets. But the secret she shares with Detective Mason Brown is one she has promised to keep. As for Mason, he sees Rachel more clearly than she’d like to admit. After a single night of adrenaline-fueled passion, they have agreed to keep their distance—until a string of murders brings them together again. Mason thinks that he can protect everyone he loves, including Rachel, by taking them to a winter hideaway, but danger follows them up the mountain. As guests disappear from the snowbound resort, the race to find the murderer intensifies. Rachel knows she’s a target. Will acknowledging her feelings for Mason destroy her—or save them both and stop a killer? “Maggie Shayne writes wonderful stories combining romance with page-turning thrills.” —Karen Robards, New York Times–bestselling author of Whispers at Midnight “Maggie Shayne is better than chocolate. She satisfies every weekend craving.” —Suzanne Forster, New York Times–bestselling author of The Arrangement

Author : Gemma O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553812596
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Following the Wake written by Gemma O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fallout from Evangeline Walter's murder touched everyone who knew her, as if her venom had insidiously leeched into their lives and poisoned their happiness. Even her cousin, Murray McGraw, who had a genuine affection for her, was not immune; and neither was Smiler O'Dowd, who loved her. But of all those who had contact with her, none suffered more than the wife and son of VJ Sweeney, who drowned at sea before he could be charged with her killing. Was it all too neat? Ten years on, the sense of unfinished business continues to linger, and Gil Sweeney has become obsessed with finding out what really happened when he was a little boy of eight...