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"A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep--without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money"--
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Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.
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Amber Hewerdine has been suffering from chronic insomnia ever since her best friend's tragic death. As a last resort she visits a hypnotherapist, doubtful that anything will really change. Under hypnosis, Amber hears herself saying "Kind, cruel, kind of cruel." The words awaken a vague memory, but she dismisses the whole episode as nonsense. But two hours later, Amber is arrested for the brutal murder of a woman she's never heard of. And the only...
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After a mysterious, silent child is found abandoned on the beach clutching a handheld video game, residents and tourists alike find themselves utterly unable to sleep. Exhaustion impairs judgment, delusions become hysteria, and mob rule explodes into shocking violence. Told from three perspectives: Chief of Police Mays tries to keep order, teenaged tourist Cort and her friends compete in a dangerous social media contest for the most hours awake, while...
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Evan Tanner novels volume 3
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Sometime spy Evan Tanner has accepted impossible assignments for many reasons: money, thrills, to have something to occupy his waking hours (twenty-four of them every day, in fact, since battlefield shrapnel obliterated his brain's sleep center). But this might be the first time he's put his life on the line... for love.
Tanner's agreed to smuggle a sexy Latvian gymnast-the lost lady love of a heart-sick friend-out of Russia. With the Cold War at...
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Evan Tanner novels volume 8
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After 25 years in suspended animation, agent Evan Tanner is defrozen and sent on a mission to destabilize the government of Burma. The mission goes awry, but he does meet a beautiful woman in danger and helps her flee the country. By the author of The Burglar in the Library.
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Jessie Sloane está intentando reconstruir su vida después de pasar años cuidando de su madre enferma. Alquila un nuevo apartamento y solicita plaza en la universidad. Pero, cuando en la universidad le informan de que su número de la seguridad social no es válido, Jessie descubre un sorprendente detalle que le hace dudar de todo lo que cree saber.
Jessie se halla de pronto en mitad de un misterio inquietante, agravado por el dolor y la falta de...
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Evan Tanner novels volume 2
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Evan Tanner ran head-first into a piece of shrapnel in Korea, and now he can't sleep. Ever. Which can be an asset for a dedicated linguist, term paper forger, thief, lost cause enthusiast . . .
Spy.
Tanner takes on jobs for a covert intelligence organization so secret that even those who work for it have no idea who they're working for. Now his nameless supervisor wants him to sneak behind the Iron Curtain, storm an impregnable castle in Prague...
10) The dreamed part
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"Following his failure to break into the Hadron Collider and merge with the so-called "God particle," The Writer from The Invented Part can no longer write or sleep. Instead, he lies awake, imagining and reimagining key moments of his life, spinning out a series of insomniac visions every bit as thought-provoking as they are dreamlike. A mysterious foundation dedicated to preserving dreams, suddenly invaluable in the wake of the dream-eradicating...
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"For the first time in paperback, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to...
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"For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, a worldwide plague of insomnia creates a devastating new apocalypse. Remember what it's like to last an entire night without sleep? That dull but constant headache. The feeling of your brain on edge. How easily irritated you were. How difficult it was to concentrate, even on seemingly menial tasks. It was just a single restless night, but everything felt just a little bit harder to do, and...
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Insomniacs after school volume 3
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"Summer is swiftly approaching for sleepless high schoolers Nakami and Magari. Now members of their school's revived astronomy club, they're busy preparing for their first official club event, a meteor shower watch party! The city's annual fireworks festival is also coming up, and Nakami has promised to go with Magari. Every sleepless night brings the two closer, and their first high school summer promises to strengthen their bond even more..."--
16) Are you awake?
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Mary and Tim, both unable to sleep, meet in a London park, where they witness a violent attack. Shocked, they form an unlikely bond, desperate to find clues. But Mary has doubt. How reliable is a man who doesn't sleep?
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Siberia: the height of Stalinist terror. Four political prisoners from all corners of the Soviet Union, exiled to the frozen wastes, and sentences to ten years hard labour, are promised their freedom if they endure 30 days without sleep, fuelled by gas 76-IA. Soviet researchers look on, neutral, and take careful notes on this new wonder drug as insomnia causes words and pleasantries to break down. Only Luka, a junior researcher, believes the experiment...
18) Insomnia
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"An insomnia pandemic is sweeping the globe, leaving people unable to function and society on the brink of collapse... Dr. Cooper Delaney believes he has the answer: Noctural, a new sleep-aid--one with absolutely no side-effects--which in early testing shows 100% effectiveness. The only problem is, it doesn't work. With no warning. No explanation. Unable to accept the drug's inexplicable failure and unwilling to concede to the competition, lines are...
19) La confesión
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Colección Alejandría. Narrativa volume 55
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Saúl wakes night after night in the same bed in what seems an endless succession of insomnia. When he finally believes he has regained a minimally clear consciousness, he observes that two hooded individuals have locked him in a strange room. After a brief conversation full of ambiguities that still completely baffles Saúl, they beat him and is taken in a van to an unexpected place. There he must confront his past, his mistakes and a definitive...
20) Już nie czekam
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"Marika prowadzi prywatny gabinet psychologiczny. Próbuje stanąć na nogi po śmierci męża. Choć rozwiązuje problemy swoich pacjentów, nie potrafi pomóc samej sobie. Wspiera ją wieloletni przyjaciel, Eryk, wierny i lojalny, lecz zarazem borykający się z poczuciem winy. Historia Szymona, pacjenta cierpiącego na lęk przed zaśnięciem, pomoże Marice uwierzyć, że zły los to tylko wymówka dla tych, którzy boją się ująć ster we własne...
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