Dacre Stoker (born in Montreal) is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker. CBC has a article about this new book in their Arts section. Stoker co-authored the book with Ian Holt with the intention of creating a new Dracula based movie. Stoker had the the unique opportunity, not readily available to most fan fiction, of access to the original author's handwritten notes. His intention was to re-create Stoker's original Dracula, unattractive and unrefined.It is 1912, twenty five years after Dracula's demise in the original story. Bram Stoker, now a character in the novel, is writing a theatrical adaptation. The original characters are being hunted down one by one. Did Dracula crumble to dust that day 25 years previous, or has a new evil been unleashed?
Jane Austen and Joan Austen-Leigh are an example of another literary dynasty. Jane Austen is Joan Austen-Leigh's three times great aunt and, like Stoker, was also born in Canada. Austen-Leigh wrote a continuation of Emma and, like Stoker, is very protective of her aunt's legacy. (No zombies here!). Rather than tinker with Austen's beloved characters, Austen-Leigh picks up a relatively minor character in Emma and tells the story through chatty letters between two sisters.
Books about Earhart have been numerous over the years. As this - and the new film - shows, her story has been fascinating to people for decades. In her own time, Earhart was a celebrated adventurer, but her mysterious disappearance during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 has kept people fascinated in the decades since.
Another book that takes a similar approach is
Did you catch game one of the World Series last night? Baseball fever is in the air! For non-sports types like me, it can always seem a little alienating to turn on the news and hear all the hype for the current big sports event. Instead of crying into my morning coffee though, this baseball season I'm trying to embrace the hype in a way I can appreciate: a little baseball 
Someone I was surprised to discover has authored a baseball book is American actress Alyssa 
There has been renewed interest in the Anne of Green Gables story in the last year or so (although really, it's fair to say, that interest ever really died out). Last year was the 100
Reports are that this 
Also being posthumously released before year's end is 
1986, but has published more books since her death than she did while living (yes, it's a ghost writer) - there are other authors where a rediscovered or previously unpublished book is a major event. This fall will see the release of a previously unpublished book by Russian great Vladimir Nabokov. Entitled The 
Few other settings inspire terror and dread as Hell does. Designated a pit where the worst of the worst are punished for all eternity, the epic battle between good and evil inevitably finds its way down.
Stuck in traffic? No problem. Pop an 
So what else to do? 
Once you have found a great narrator, you can search the library's catalogue with the name and find other books they have read as well.
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