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1) Sleeper
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet.
2) Sleeper
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As if surviving high school wasn't hard enough, Sarah Reyes suffers from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, a parasomnia that causes her to physically act out her dreams. When she almost snaps her friend's neck at a sleepover, Sarah and her nocturnal habits are thrust into the spotlight and she becomes a social pariah, complete with public humiliation. When an experimental drug comes onto the market that promises nighttime normalcy, Sarah agrees to participate...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years. Due to the wonders of compound interest, he is now this later world's richest man. As a committed socialist and futurist, he now sees his dreams realized and revealed to him in all their abhorrent and frightful glory.
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An original collection of interwoven short stories set in the Wild Cards universe, where an alien virus mutates some and grants superpowers to others, created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Croyd Crenson...
Author
Series
Sleeper conspiracy volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Group US
Language
English
Description
Teenager Tom Lovett suffers from a rare form of narcolepsy that can knock him out for days at a time. At least, this is what his parents and doctors have always told him. But Tom's about to make a shocking discovery: He's actually a sleeper assassin. His narcoleptic "fits" are cover for his horrific missions. In fact, his entire life has been a lie. The truth is, Tom shares a body with Tyler Garrett, a separate personality who has committed coldblooded
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Series
Publisher
Penguin USA, Inc
Language
English
Description
Teenager Tom Lovett suffers from a rare form of narcolepsy that can knock him out for days at a time. At least, this is what his parents and doctors have always told him. But Tom's about to make a shocking discovery: He's actually a sleeper assassin. His narcoleptic "fits" are cover for his horrific missions. In fact, his entire life has been a lie. The truth is, Tom shares a body with Tyler Garrett, a separate personality who has committed coldblooded
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Language
English
Formats
Description
George Koval was born in Iowa. In 1932, his parents, Russian Jews who had emigrated because of anti-Semitism, decided to return home to live out their socialist ideals. George, who was as committed to socialism as they were, went with them. It was there that he was recruited by the Soviet Army as a spy and returned to the US in 1940. A gifted science student, he enrolled at Columbia University, where he knew scientists soon to join the Manhattan Project,...
Author
Series
Sleeper volume 3
Publisher
WildStorm Productions
Pub. Date
<2004->
Language
English
Description
Lynch is back in Holden's life and trying to bring him back to the side of the angels. But is it too late for Holden's soul to be saved? And if it's not, can Lynch even be trusted, since Holden is little more than a pawn in the great game of super-powered espionage?
Author
Series
Sleeper volume 4
Publisher
WildStorm Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Brubaker and Phillips' Sleeper melded spy and superhero genres potently as this collection of its final issues demonstrates. In it, the cat-and-mouse game between former government agent Holden Carver and Tao, the leader of a shadowy worldwide criminal cartel, comes to a head. In the previous story arc, A Crooked Line (2005), Tao discovered Carver's dual role but persuaded him--or did he?--to turn against Lynch, his former boss and Tao's longtime...
12) Sleepers
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Sentenced to the Wilkinson School for Boys, four pals are mistreated at will by a cadre of sadistic guards. Fifteen years later, they have an unexpected opportunity for revenge.
Author
Series
Sleeper volume 1
Publisher
Wildstorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Holt Paperbacks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Cry it out or co-sleep? Bassinet or swing? White noise machine or Bach? How many hours anyway? For something so important, there's too much conflicting information about how best to get your baby to sleep through the night and nap successfully during the day. This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense answer to one of the biggest challenges new parents face when they welcome a brand new baby home. This book is written for exhausted parents, giving...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Spies have long been a source of great fascination in the world of fiction, but sometimes the best spy stories happen in real life. Russians Among Us tells the full story of Putin's escalating espionage campaign in the West, the Russian 'deep cover' spies who penetrated the US and the years-long FBI hunt to capture them. This book also details the recruitment, running, and escape of one of the most important spies of modern times, a man who worked...
19) Rough sleepers
Author
Language
English
Description
"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sleep is not only crucial to our overall health, but it also serves as the backbone of coping mechanisms in our restless, modern world. Now, with many of us feeling over-tired and under pressure, it's more important than ever to get a good night's sleep, and The Natural Sleeper offers a comprehensive collection of therapeutic solutions to improve sleep using natural remedies. Combining self-help approaches and therapies, this practical book explores...
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