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Insomnia | Insomnia

stephanie-a-silberman's picture
Jun.23.2009
Forget expensive mattresses, fancy foam pillows, and white noise machines. There's no better treatment for insomnia than cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Research has shown that CBT works even better than powerful sleep medications, and with this workbook, it's easier than ever to put these...
thomas-fahy's picture
Feb.21.2009
A group of students in a secret society try to figure out who or what is responsible for an epidemic of sleepwalking that is causing teens in a small town to kill each other.
thomas-fahy's picture
Aug.01.2008
Samantha Ranvali hasn't slept in months. Haunted by memories of a brutal attack, she seeks an experimental cure with a group called Endymion's Circle. The doctors call her treatment a success-until it leaves her with visions of a violent murder strikingly similar to her own assault. The lines...
bill-hayes's picture
Dec.21.2007
A skilled and graceful debut that variously reads like a journey of scientific discovery, a personal memoir, and a literary episode of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. An intelligent, beautifully written book, Hayes’ curious hybrid will delight readers who snore past dawn as well as those who pace away...
t-coraghessan-boyle's picture
Dec.17.2007
Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are the comic yet lyrical title story, in which a young...