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If you close your eyes, he'll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation's top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son, Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in another kind of terror--the kind that can turn a dream life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.
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"The world will know her name. The average person spends 33 years of their life asleep. But, in this mysterious shadow world, how can we ever know who we really become? In 2019, Anna Ogilvy was a budding twenty-five-year-old writer with a bright future ahead of her. Then, one night, she stabbed two people to death with no apparent motive and hasn't woken up since. Her deep sleep is known by neurologists as 'resignation syndrome', a rare functional...
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"Laura is a nurse in a pediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their different shades of blue, care for sick babies, handling their exquisitely fragile bodies, and carefully calibrating the mysterious machines that keep them alive. Laura may be burnt out. Her hands have been raw from washing as long as she can remember. When she sleeps, she dreams of water; when she wakes, she finds herself lying next to a man who doesn't...
5) Deep sleep
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The South Louisiana Sleep Disorders Institute promises to let you live out your dreams in your sleep-to experience them so strongly that afterwards you won't be able to tell the difference between them and real memories. The Institute Director claims to use these lucid dreams only as therapy for her clients. But when one of the clinic's clients and two of its neighbors are murdered, Detective Mark French finds that the institute also has more sinister...
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"An inheritance could provide her with financial freedom, a rare accomplishment for a woman in the Regency era; she only has to marry one of two men to gain it. But what if her heart belongs to a third?Brushed cruelly aside by the only father figure she's ever known and then hospitalized by her arranged husband months before his death, Amelia Pembroke means to take control of her future at last, one way or another. Yet she knows all too well she faces...
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Books4pocket. Romántica volume 388
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En una noche oscura, los terrores del pasado volverán a la vida de Sophie Dunston. Reconocida especialista en terapias del sueño y creadora del tratamiento REM-4, la científica ha visto cómo sus hallazgos se vuelven contra ella al ser utilizados para controlar la mente de los pacientes y convertirlos en crueles asesinos. Para salvaguardar su seguridad y la de su hijo Michael, durante años ha luchado con todas sus fuerzas denunciando las oscuras...
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Sleeper conspiracy volume pt. 2
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Seventeen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett struggles against Tyler, his alter ego, meanwhile working with Pandora, a secret government agency, to destroy the mastermind that created him.
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"Dr. David Fazio is a maternity physician at Chicago-Western Medical Hospital. He is a handsome, divorced baby doctor who has more than his share of personal flaws. But Dr. Fazio has one good moral quality going for him: He is a pro-life obstetrician. In a state where late term abortions are now legal, he is being strongly encouraged by the hospital to perform abortions to any patient requesting one. Dr. Fazio has one other problem ... he has horrific...
11) Sleep terrors
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"Don't. Fall. Asleep. Terri hasn't been sleeping well. Ever since the accident that put her in a coma, narcolepsy haunts her days, while much darker things haunt her nights. When her dreams start coming true -- violent events that she saw in her sleep leaving trails of blood in real life -- the desire to stay awake drives Terri to the edge of madness. Or did she already cross that line long ago? Federal agents flood Terri's small town, and the local...