"Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke will be hitting the books once again.
Deadline reports that the auteur has signed on to direct the big-screen adaptation of Karen Thompson Walker's 2012 novel "The Age of Miracles."
The story follows 11-year-old Julia and her family as they awake one morning to discover the rotation of the Earth has inexplicably slowed—causing all sorts of bizarre phenomena and, ultimately, leaving the planet's fate uncertain. But who has time to worry about the apocalypse when there are everyday concerns like first loves, failing marriages and kooky grandparents to contend with?
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What if amongst your inbox onslaught of Living Social Deals and Aunt Bertha's vacation photos, you received a strange email asking you to walk a pet pig named Wilbur? Would you write back? Small-town girl Ellie O'Neill does, striking up a long-distance friendship with a fellow 17-year-old she only later discovers is a movie star. Pretty much the perfect email accident, huh?
It is a commonly-known fact amongst elite literary circles that no book-loving individual could ever, ever have too much shelf space devoted to supernatural romance. Nope! Not possible! You'll pry this vampire werewolf zombie ghost abominable snowman love story out of our cold, dead hands! And latest on our list of must-read novels in which the central romance isn't entirely of this world is Meredith Towbin's "Straightjacket," in which Anna, an 18 year-old, anxiety-ridden resident of a psychiatric ward, finds herself falling in love with another patient: a gifted painter who's either a) an angel sent to save her life, or b) the craziest dude in Crazytown. Want to learn more? Check it: We spent some time with the author herself to get the skinny on angels, asylum tours and the hazards of commitment—in both definitions of the word.
The next big thing in dystopian blockbusters is getting bigger by the day: the "Maze Runner" movie has added yet another cast member to its roster! And even if you're a little tired of the whole end-of-the-world, death-of-society thing, you might want to pay attention to this particular casting couch, which is shaping up to be a veritable buffet of nice-looking young men. (Hey, we know what you like.) 
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