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English
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If you close your eyes, he'll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation's top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror--the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.
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Language
English
Description
"In her new book, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Thrive delves into the sleep revolution that is happening all across the world-- a revolution that can transform our lives. Sleep, she writes, is one of humanity's great unifiers, binding us to each other, to our ancestors, to our past, and to the future. Yet we find ourselves in the middle of a crisis...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive--and hasn't woken up since. Dubbed "Sleeping Beauty" by the tabloids, Anna's condition is a rare psychosomatic disorder known to neurologists as "resignation syndrome." Dr. Benedict Prince is a forensic psychologist and an expert in the field of sleep-related homicides. His methods are the last hope...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"All science classrooms discuss animals that hibernate during winter months, but few know about animals that estivate--a prolonged sleep during hot or dry periods. Dual layers of text awaken readers to the reasons estivating animals become dormant--whether it's because warm weather threatens food supply or to avoid increased body temperatures."--
8) The Sandman
Author
Series
Sandman library volume 1
Language
English
Description
An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother, Dream, instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, a.k.a. The Sandman, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. Author Neil Gaiman creates an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep, and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold...
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Series
Diviners volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner and has become a media darling. In the meantime, a mysterious sleeping sickness has hit New York City, and the Diviners must band together to find the cause and the cure"--
11) Healthy sleep
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Mind-body experts Weil and Naiman present information on the importance of achieving "optimum sleep." Covers: the roots of insomnia and techniques for overcoming it; the "spiritual component" of sleep and dreaming; eight practices addressing specific sleep problems, including three sessions to help the individual fall asleep; the connection between a healthy sleep cycle and an improved immune system, mood, sense of well-being, and lower body weight...
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The groundbreaking audio production of what Los Angeles Times Magazine called "the greatest epic in the history of comic books" continues. Leading perhaps the best cast ever assembled in audio, James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in The Sandman: Act III, the third installment of the New York Times best-selling audio saga. Award-winning audio trailblazer Dirk Maggs adapts the blockbuster DC graphic novel series written by Neil...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Enter the Dreaming again as the blockbuster audio adaptation of "the greatest epic in the history of comic books" continues. James McAvoy returns to voice Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, in this sequel to the #1 New York Times audio bestseller. Journey into a world of myths, imagination, and terror based on the best-selling DC comic books and graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman (returning as the Narrator), and lose yourself in another groundbreaking,...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2002-℗2004
Language
English
Description
Light in shadow: Interior designer Zoe Luce specializes in working with recently divorced clients. Suspecting that one of them harbors a dark secret, she enlists P.I. Ethan Truax to uncover the truth. Truth or dare: Newlyweds Zoe Luce and Ethan Truax both have secrets it would be better not to share, but it isn't clear that their new relationship can bear the burden. Falling awake: After being fired from the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research, dream...
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