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"For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, a worldwide plague of insomnia creates a devastating new apocalypse. Remember what it's like to last an entire night without sleep? That dull but constant headache. The feeling of your brain on edge. How easily irritated you were. How difficult it was to concentrate, even on seemingly menial tasks. It was just a single restless night, but everything felt just a little bit harder to do, and...
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Siberia: the height of Stalinist terror. Four political prisoners from all corners of the Soviet Union, exiled to the frozen wastes, and sentences to ten years hard labour, are promised their freedom if they endure 30 days without sleep, fuelled by gas 76-IA. Soviet researchers look on, neutral, and take careful notes on this new wonder drug as insomnia causes words and pleasantries to break down. Only Luka, a junior researcher, believes the experiment...
25) Insomnia
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"An insomnia pandemic is sweeping the globe, leaving people unable to function and society on the brink of collapse... Dr. Cooper Delaney believes he has the answer: Noctural, a new sleep-aid--one with absolutely no side-effects--which in early testing shows 100% effectiveness. The only problem is, it doesn't work. With no warning. No explanation. Unable to accept the drug's inexplicable failure and unwilling to concede to the competition, lines are...
26) La confesión
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Colección Alejandría. Narrativa volume 55
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Saúl wakes night after night in the same bed in what seems an endless succession of insomnia. When he finally believes he has regained a minimally clear consciousness, he observes that two hooded individuals have locked him in a strange room. After a brief conversation full of ambiguities that still completely baffles Saúl, they beat him and is taken in a van to an unexpected place. There he must confront his past, his mistakes and a definitive...
27) Już nie czekam
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"Marika prowadzi prywatny gabinet psychologiczny. Próbuje stanąć na nogi po śmierci męża. Choć rozwiązuje problemy swoich pacjentów, nie potrafi pomóc samej sobie. Wspiera ją wieloletni przyjaciel, Eryk, wierny i lojalny, lecz zarazem borykający się z poczuciem winy. Historia Szymona, pacjenta cierpiącego na lęk przed zaśnięciem, pomoże Marice uwierzyć, że zły los to tylko wymówka dla tych, którzy boją się ująć ster we własne...
28) Sueño
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"Su vida gira alrededor de la rutina: el cuidado de su casa, de su marido y de su hijo. Una noche, tal como ya le habia ocurrido en sus años universitarios, es incapaz de dormir. Hoy, ya lleva diecisiete dias sin dormir. En la oscuridad de su casa, ha comenzado a disfrutar de una segunda vida: redescubre la literatura, consigue huir de la cotidianeidad y descubre la alegria de vivir. Pero poco a poco su sensación del tiempo se desvanece y la liberacion...
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"On a razor' s edge between speculation and reality, Freirich' s psychological horror Deprivation tracks the spread of the next epidemic -- insomnia. Over a week, as sleeplessness engulfs a New England summer resort island, the hapless Chief of Police struggles to keep order, a blurry doctor searches for the cause and the cure, and a teenage girl competes with her friends in an online game: who can stay awake the longest? Impaired judgment spirals...
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"Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy.When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big city is no hero's journey. Ietsy loses...
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