The Edge Of Sleep

Author : Jake Emanuel
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250284929
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Sleep written by Jake Emanuel and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, California, is so quiet Dave can hear the ocean from miles away. Traffic signals blink from red to green over empty intersections. Storefronts remain locked up tight. Every radio station whispers static. And all over town, there are bodies, lying right where their owners left them. Dead right where they slept. Dave—along with his ex-girlfriend, Katie, his best friend, Matteo, and Linda, a nurse he’s just met—struggle to unravel the mystery before sleep overtakes them all. Except the answer to the mystery might lie in the one place that frightens Dave most: His twisted, unnerving dreams. Now Dave and his friends must straddle the liminal boundary between life and death as they fight to save everyone they’ve ever loved—and to keep their eyes open. Because if any of them falls asleep now, it will be the last thing they ever do.

Author : David Wiltse
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631680544
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Sleep written by David Wiltse and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becker searches Appalachia for a bizarre pair of serial killers. Dee tears through the closet, looking for something to beat Ash with. The hangers are no good, so she asks for his belt. He hands it over willingly, and hangs his head as she beats him unconscious. Her rages have gotten worse ever since they started kidnapping the boys. Ash does not mind the pain, but the boys cry when Dee beats them. It hurts Ash to hear them cry, for he loves the boys dearly—so dearly that he is always willing to kill them to stop the tears. When another boy vanishes from an Appalachia shopping mall, the FBI calls on retired agent John Becker, who knows better than anyone how serial killers think. But Dee and Ash are not like any killer he has chased before, and catching them will mean going into a darker place than he ever has before.

Author : Rowan Somerville
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393066609
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Sleep written by Rowan Somerville and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Irish wit and passion, Somerville crafts a riotous love letter to Arab culture--its sense of honor and friendship, its food and humor, and above all, its storytelling.

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615142737
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light (Ninety-Nine Ghazals Written in English) / Poems written by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FLAME OF TRANSFORMATION TURNS TO LIGHT is a book of poems in traditional ghazal form, the first half begun in Turkey, companion volume to "open form" poems written at a later visit, published in 2006 as Love is a Letter Burning in a High Wind (The Ecstatic Exchange). Visiting the epiphany-inducing tombs of Mevlana Rumi and his spiritual companion Shems in Konya, their baraka bathing the journey, the grave of Turkey's great native Sufi poet, Yunus Emre, and traveling through a land of such subtle spirituality, these poems chronicle an imagistic diary through both interior and exterior countrysides, with the second half continued in the same vein at home in Philadelphia.

Author : Brandon West
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476681406
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Edge of Existence written by Brandon West and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scary stories begin with a disclaimer that they are fictional. Instead, they claim to be true even when they are not. Such stories blur the line between fiction and reality, pushing audiences to consider where fiction ends and reality begins. These kinds of horror stories comprise the understudied subgenre of liminal horror. As the first book on this subject, this volume surveys a variety of liminal horror films. It discusses the different variations within liminal horror's sub-genres and considers why horror films are obsessed with the natures of, and borders between, fiction and reality. After first laying out the basic traits of the horror genre in the context of liminality, this book then dives into film more specifically and how the medium is uniquely situated to explore the movement between the fictional and the real. Through lenses such as dreaming, memory, and perception, the following chapters explore the role liminal horror plays in the the human psyche's subconscious/unconscious, and the various functions of the human mind in perceiving, or misperceiving, reality.

Author : Matthew Walker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501144316
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Sleep written by Matthew Walker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity ... An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now ... neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming"--Amazon.com.

Author : Jonathan Coe
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780241967744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Sleep written by Jonathan Coe and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a private clinic that treats sleep disorders Jonathan Coe's novel, told in 6 sections, relates to wakefulness, drowsiness and the 4 stages of sleep. In the novel he explores 'lost' movies and forgotten dreams.

Author : Daniel Rogers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664170340
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asleep at the Edge of Hell written by Daniel Rogers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-04-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CULTURE SHOCK: "Dave was in traction from a near-fatal highway accident, when Jim Camp, the Nurse Practitioner, and Petit Kahamba invited me to go fishing. We snaked through the jungle down to a crater lake, stepped into a wooden dugout, and then the men threw lit dynamite which exploded into the water. I was stunned. Fish floated up to the surface and were netted for a feast. Things in Africa were not the norm as one should expect!"

Author : Evany Thomas
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Language of Sleep written by Evany Thomas and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some couples wonder if they have the mettle for a committed relationship, or the momentum for long-distance love, or the reflexes for fighting crime. Unsure couples waste years looking for answers in each other's eyes, or in the offices of behavioral therapists. And yet, each night their sleeping bodies reveal more than any doctor or private detective could ever discover. With this book, a couple can unlock the meaning of their chosen pose. All thirty-nine poses (including Classic Spoons, the Tobogganer, and Softserve Swirl) come with easy-to-identify illustrations, detailed descriptions, and training tips. Handy icons indicate which positions are most therapeutic for snorers, outdoorsmen, or those who work on their feet.

Author : Vicki Culpin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472936604
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Sleep written by Vicki Culpin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a number of world leaders may have claimed to be able to make do with five hours of sleep per night, for many people that little amount of sleep can – even in the short term – have serious and damaging side-effects. Major disasters have occurred as a result of poor sleep, from the destruction of the Challenger space shuttle to nuclear meltdowns such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, but more prevalent effects can include health disorders, the rise of depression and poor memory retention. For businesses and their employees, the impact can be incredibly detrimental – from the negative impact on decision-making and communication skills, to the stifling of creativity and innovation. The Business of Sleep delivers a serious business message: a lack of sleep will have an effect on your work and career. But the good news is that there are positive steps that can be taken. Drawing on both seminal and cutting-edge research, alongside interviews with notable CEOs and business influencers, sleep specialist Vicki Culpin offers an accessible guide to how sleep works, the consequences of poor sleep and the practical ways of mitigating against, and reducing the impact of, compromised sleep in organisational environments.