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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of...
3) Shhhh
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A little girl quietly explores her sleeping house before she wakes everyone up.
4) Night noises
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Old Lily Laceby dozes by the fire with her faithful dog at her feet as strange night noises herald a surprising awakening.
5) Asleep
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Description
Three women find themselves bewitched into a spiritual sleep.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What if the whole world fell asleep...and didn't wake up again? Dave Torres, a night watchman in a placid coastal town, knows all about sleep troubles. Since childhood, he's battled terrors and nightmares. Sometimes those battles leak into his waking life, with disastrous consequences for those he loves. Now Dave lives alone and self-medicates to neutralize his dreams. It's not much of a life, he knows. The morning after Independence Day, Santa Mira,...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When baby J.J. arrives at his new home, his foster family is bubbling over with excitement to meet him! The busy family of six is now a family of seven (eight if you include Cheddar the dog). There's always something going on at home -- and lots of noise to go along with it. But J.J. sleeps through it all. That first week, J.J. does all sorts of typical baby things: gets a bath, has his smelly diaper changed and sleeps some more. But when the four...
10) Prison of sleep
Author
Series
Journals of Zaxony Delatree volume 2
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into an endless series of brief encounters. But at least he and Minna, the one companion who has found a way of travelling with him, are no longer pursued by the psychotic and vengeful Lector. But now Zax has been joined once again by Ana, a companion he thought left behind long ago. Ana is one of the Sleepers, a group of fellow travellers between worlds. Ana...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The mysterious plague known as Aurora has blanketed the world, and, to the men, all but a handful of sleep-deprived women seem trapped--cocooned--in seemingly endless slumber. In reality, their minds have been transported to a strange, utopic dream world. It's a world where small-town sheriff Lila Norcross and the other women can build their own society. And from which they might not want to wake. In the real world of Dooling, West Virginia, Lila's...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named Gabe, they embark on an experiment that changes their lives. Their headmaster, Dr. Adrian Keller, is a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming: by teaching his patients to become conscious during sleep, he believes he can relieve stress and trauma....
Author
Publisher
Apples & Honey Press, an imprint of Behrman House and Gefen Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In a little village in Israel, various sounds have kept Mrs. Strauss awake but when the first rain of the season comes, it quiets everything else.
Kukurikuuu! squawks the rooster. Meowwwww! yowls the cat. ZZZZZZzzzzzzz buzzes the mosquito... It is the end of a hot, dry summer, and Mrs. Strauss just can't fall asleep. "SHEKET! QUIET!" But when at last she falls asleep, something wakes her up again...something her little village in Israel has...
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