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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
What LAPD cop Parker Hass wants is a world both safe and just for his wife and infant daughter. But then a plague of insomnia strikes. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial law and insurgency, Park is tasked with cutting off illegal trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected their precious sleep. After a year of lost leads, Park stumbles into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceutical...
2) Fight club
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From journalist and poet Melissa Bond, a gripping account of the author's addiction to benzodiazepines (a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan) and the hidden dangers they pose. As Melissa mothers her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or less each night. She loses her job as a journalist (a casualty of the 2008 recession), and her relationship with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
vii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This text provides those with sleep problems or insomnia an overview of research on the causes of sleep loss and the physical effects of insomnia, as well as possible treatments. Disorders are summarized and illustrated with real-life stories about sleep experiences and remedies. This is a concise guide to help readers improve their sleep habits and lives"--Provided by publisher.
5) Compass
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five-year-old Ava Boone has been missing for six months. There are have been no leads, no arrests, no witnesses. The only suspect was quiet, middle-aged Leland Ernest. And Grace Wright has just bought the house next door. Recently divorced, Grace uprooted her two small children to start again and hopes the move will reset her crippling insomnia. But now she understands the bargain-price for her beautiful new house. With whispered neighbourhood gossip...
Author
Series
Nightmare Brigade volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
According to Professor Angus, Estaban was found one day outside of the Sleep Lab one day as a young boy. He was lost and abandoned. Angus and his son Tristan quickly welcomed him into their family and into their field of work, exploring nightmares and allowing patients a good and safe night’s sleep. But, Esteban has been having his own nightmares of late where he wakes up in his old house, reunited with his parents as if they were never separated....
8) El rebaño
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Miguel siempre cuenta ovejas antes de dormir. Primero salta Una, luego Dos, después Tres...Pero ¿y si la oveja Cuatro no quiere saltar? -- Page [4] of cover.
"A Miguel le cuesta dormir. Cada noche cuenta ovejas que saltan una valla. Primero salta la oveja Una, luego Dos, Tres y así hasta que Miguel se duerme. Pero una noche, la oveja Cuatro dice que está cansada de saltar. "¡No! ¡No! ¡Y no!", grita cuando la intentan convencer. ¿Qué pueden...
9) Insomnia
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
133 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Marina Benjamin's Insomnia is part memoir and part philosophical inquiry into a condition that is on the rise and that can grant us insights into the workings of our unconscious minds. An intense and lyrical personal narrative, it treats insomnia as an experience, not a disorder, drawing on its influences on the arts and sciences throughout history, as well as on Benjamin's own life.
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