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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living off the grid for over half his life. He's never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship. A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and an LSD microdosing problem, he spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running sometimes...
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Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"What if Sleeping Beauty never got her happily ever after... and had to save herself instead? One hundred years after Briar Rose first fell into her slumber, the sleeper has now become the sleepwalker, and she must face a brutal, bleak world ruled by a tyrant from her past. Burdened by prophecy and betrayal, it will take everything Briar and her band of misfits have to survive the wasteland where magic went to die. As they journey through a land of...
43) The dead I know
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English
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Aaron Rowe's new job at a funeral parlor may be his salvation from sleepwalking, dreams he can not explain and memories he can not recover, but if he does not discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up.
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Language
English
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"When Kitty's latest assignment for the New York Sentinel Ladies' Page takes her to Westfield Hall, she expects to find an orderly establishment teaching French and dancing-but there's more going on at the school than initially meets the eye. Tragedy strikes when a student named Elspeth is found frozen to death in Central Park. The doctors proclaim that the girl's sleepwalking was the cause, but Kitty isn't so sure. Determined to uncover the truth,...
46) 50 below zero
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Publisher
Annick Press
Language
English
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"Beginning reader." --
47) Rabbit cake
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Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn't yet know--like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning...
Author
Series
Sworn soldier ; 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Comedian Mike Birbiglia's hilarious New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture co-written and produced by Ira Glass (This American Life) starring Birbiglia and Emmy-nominated actress Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under).
Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
Sleepwalk with Me is a comedic memoir, but I'm only thirty-two years old, so I'd hate for you to think I'm...
Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor
Sleepwalk with Me is a comedic memoir, but I'm only thirty-two years old, so I'd hate for you to think I'm...
50) Acts of Violet
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Order, Acts of Violet is a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened. Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than ever. While Violet...
51) Sleepwalking
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Language
English
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One of a curious society of three young women called the "death girls" of Swarthmore campus, Claire must finally confront the reasons for her behavior.
52) The dream spies
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English
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"Maren, her older sister Hallie, and their grandmother go undercover to investigate a suspicious summer camp for dreamers, and when sleepwalking campers cannot be awakened, the three hurry to uncover and stop the criminal mastermind running the camp." --
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English
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"This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing."--Publisher.
54) Honeymoon
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Paul and Bea travel to a remote lake countryside for their honeymoon. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea sleepwalking in the woods. As her behavior becomes increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister has taken place.
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Language
English
Description
Alexandra Horowitz's brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary - to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles." It is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, a well-known artist, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog...
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Publisher
Kensington Books
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English
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"Between trying to get her gluten-free baking business off the ground and helping her aunt remodel her old Victorian into the Butterfly House Bed and Breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey, Poppy is ready to call "Mayday!" And now Aunt Ginny - who's a handful wide-awake - is sleepwalking on her new sleeping pill prescription and helping herself to neighbors' snacks and knickknacks. Even more alarming, a local humanitarian who worked with troubled teens...
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English
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"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places. In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories, readers follow a mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain family becomes an irresistible...
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English
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"I enjoyed The Babysitter Lives very much. It's perfect for audio, as really scary stories always are, and this one is really scary. Perfect for a long car ride...especially when you're almost out of gas and you start wondering if maybe someone has gotten into the backseat and will lurch into the rearview mirror." —Stephen King
Only on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians...
Only on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians...
60) Sleepwalker
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Series
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English
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When someone starts savagely murdering women near her home, Allison Taylor Mackenna, a survivor of another serial killer, finds her life in danger once again, and worries that her husband, Mack, may be the guilty party.
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