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Author
Language
English
Description
Emma Averell loves her life--her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband--but it wasn't always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her older sister went into foster care because of a horrific incident with their mother. Her sister can remember a time when their mother was loving and "normal," but Emma can only remember her as one thing--a monster. And that monster emerged right...
2) Insomnia
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As Melissa Bond raises 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 her husband grows distant. Her doctor casually prescribes benzodiazepines--a family of drugs that includes Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan--and increases her dosage regularly. Following her doctor's...
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...
5) Mister Sleep
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A deranged serial killer called Mister Sleep, survives prison execution and is reborn as a terrifying and unstoppable force of nature who unleashes savage and bloody revenge on a group of insomnia patients participating in a new drug trial - a group who he believes have stolen his memories. His relentless thirst for revenge sets him on a collsion course with the man who sent him to death row and his young daughter, who is part of the group testing...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
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...
8) El rebaño
Author
Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición, septiembre de 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...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (705 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Fight club: A man sets up a fight club in which young men are paired off in bloody no-holds-barred bouts until one drops.
The usual suspects: A $91 million cocaine heist. A devastating boat explosion. Two survivors. U.S. Customs special agent David Kujan is determined to find out who and what's behind the melee. As he pieces together clues with the help of a half-charred...