Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep: A Novel MP3 CD – Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
Author: Visit ‘s Stephen King Page ID: 1442362537

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An Best Book of the Month, September 2013: What ever happened to Danny Torrance? For the 36 years since The Shining was first published, the answer has been left to our imaginations. Finally we catch up with Dan as his creator envisions him: a flawed middle-aged man with a tragic past — his special gift, “shining,” dulled with age and alcohol. He’s “Doctor Sleep” now, a hospice worker who eases the end of patients’ lives. He also happens to be the only one who can help a little girl with her own special gift. This is not simply The Shining II. Not only does this story stand on its own, it manages to magnify the supernatural quality that first drew us to young Danny, expanding its mystery and its intensity in a way that might even reach beyond this book into the rest of the King-iverse… and beyond. (Easter egg alert: look for the nod to King’s son Joe Hill’s recent book N0S4A2.) –Robin A. Rothman

–This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Iconic horror author King (Joyland) picks up the narrative threads of The Shining many years on. Young psychic Danny Torrance has become a middle-aged alcoholic (he now goes by Dan), bearing his powers and his guilt as equal burdens. A lucky break gets him a job in a hospice in a small New England town. Using his abilities to ease the passing of the terminally ill, he remains blissfully unaware of the actions of the True Knot, a caravan of human parasites crisscrossing the map in their RVs as they search for children with the shining (psychic abilities of the kind that Dan possesses), upon whom they feed. When a girl named Abra Stone is born with powers that dwarf Dan&’s, she attracts the attention of the True Knot&’s leader—the predatory Rose the Hat. Dan is forced to help Abra confront the Knot, and face his own lingering demons. Less terrifying than its famous predecessor, perhaps because of the author&’s obvious affection for even the most repellant characters, King&’s latest is still a gripping, taut read that provides a satisfying conclusion to Danny Torrance&’s story. Agent: Chuck Verrill, Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents. (Oct.)

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MP3 CDPublisher: Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition (September 24, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1442362537ISBN-13: 978-1442362536 Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 5.8 inches Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #461,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #12413 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror #17324 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Suspense #53278 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
The return-to-form King displayed with 11/22/63 and the novella JOYLAND continues for the most part with King’s long-awaited 36-years-later sequel to 1977’s THE SHINING.

Picking up only a few years after the conclusion of events in THE SHINING, the prologue features one of the most memorable apparitions from The Overlook making a welcome return "haunting". From there, the novel jumps ahead a couple of decades, picking up with Danny at his lowest point in his late twenties before coursing ahead several more years. The pacing is a little disjointed at times and I was disappointed that some of Dan’s arguably more compelling years (his teenage years) – and characters such as Wendy and Dick Hallorann – are never really explored to the extent or depth I had hoped they would be. A little more detail and padding here would have been welcome. However, King has often been criticized for his meandering, overlong style so many readers may relish this slightly more concise style.

The constant references throughout to even minor events in THE SHINING will have most readers inevitably comparing it to the earlier book (throwbacks to "REDRUM" and many other references abound). While DOCTOR SLEEP does work as a stand-alone novel, it works best as a sequel. There are two main threads to this novel: the exploration and expansion of the character of the now adult ‘Doc’, as he battles with his demons (alcoholism, his past, and his shining ability); and the new story and characters such as Abra, Chetta, Lucy, Doctor John, Dave, and The True Knot. The new characters, especially Abra, are well drawn but the villains come across as a little hammy and the overall plot pales in comparison to Dan’s inner ruminations.
[THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS]

After reading an author for as many years as I’ve read King, I have become accustomed somewhat to the writer’s habits and other signature moves to the point where I can almost predict them. And when those habits and signatures aren’t there, when a writer you’ve read for years is off his or her game, it becomes as palpable on the brain as the lack of salt feels almost injurious to a gourmet’s palate.

That’s how I felt when I read Doctor Sleep, the sequel to King’s masterpiece to The Shining. I’m almost at pains to call it a sequel, because it feels so utterly separate from the mind and world in which the first book was written that one could easily read this book without having read The Shining and not miss much of a beat, but there is some bridging there between the first two books for those who have read The Shining.

That being said, the book started off very strong. Dan Torrance, once known as Danny or "Doc," has grown up and he’s wrestling with the alcohol demon, in much the same way his father did, only he has his childhood nightmare at The Overlook as well as his often torturous psychic ability still riding shotgun. He’s a bit of a nomad, drifting from town to town after he’s burned enough bridges (usually thanks to the antics he gets up to while on a liquor binge) but he tries to make the best of things working as an orderly at various hospice centers where he helps to usher dying patients gently into the afterlife. This whole side of Dan’s life is not given a whole lot of gravity or dimension, however, and it left me wondering what exactly he does for these people that is so special. That was my first cue that King was not entirely on his game here, but I’ll get to that in a minute.
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Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time Paperback – July 14, 2015
Author: Victoria L. Dunckley MD ID: 1608682846

Review

“Impressively researched, eye-opening, and eminently practical, Reset Your Child’s Brain is an invaluable contribution to any parent’s library. Dr. Dunckley’s plan is sure to provide relief to a great many children — and their families.”
— Craig Malkin, PhD, instructor in psychology, Harvard Medical School, and author of Rethinking Narcissism

“Readers will . . . feel relieved to have such a helpful guide to teaching children that there is more to life than staring at a screen.”
— Publishers Weekly

“Dr. Victoria Dunckley has given every child psychiatrist and pediatrician in America a wonderful gift. This book gives us a tool to share with the parents of the millions of children in the US who are agitated, unfocused, and out of control. She also answers the question about why this problem has accelerated in the last decade: it is screen-time, not a lack of Ritalin. I completely agree with her premise and her interventions. Thank you!”
— Scott Shannon, MD, integrative child psychiatrist, past president of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, and author of Please Don’t Label My Child

“Parents will probably recoil from the idea of taking their children’s cell phones and laptops away from them. Let them know that Dunckley acknowledges the mountain that she is asking them to climb and, not only gives them thorough reasons for doing it, but also a highly detailed plan for accomplishing it.”
— Retailing Insight

“This practical and easy-to-read guide is a much-needed wake-up call for this digital age. Buy Reset Your Child’s Brain for your family, your school, and your local library.”
— Kerry Crofton, PhD, cofounder and executive director of Doctors for Safer Schools and author of A Wellness Guide for the Digital Age

“This book looks at how electronic media use can affect the central nervous system long after the offending device has actually been used — an effect similar to that of drug addiction. It presents new studies that show how, as with drug use, functioning may not be impaired immediately, and in some cases it may even improve initially but then becomes worse. Finally, Dr. Dunckley outlines issues in diagnosis, in assessment, and most important, in treatment for battling and resetting the brain to overcome the rapidly emergent condition of Electronic Screen Syndrome.”
— Dr. Kimberly S. Young, founder and director of the Center for Internet Addiction and NetAddiction.com

“One of the problems worldwide that relates to this book is sleep deprivation. This has many consequences and — to put it bluntly — makes the sleep-deprived person fat, lazy, stupid, and depressed! The more that books like this expose the problem, the sooner we will be moving to a higher and more secure state of well-being!”
— John J. Ratey, MD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and author of Spark

“Victoria Dunckley makes a convincing case that parents should be very concerned about their children’s constant exposure to electronic screen–based entertainment. Citing medical research as well as her work with hundreds of patients, Dr. Dunckley explains how electronic media overwhelm children’s nervous systems and impair their physical and mental functioning. Families who follow her practical approach to discontinuing electronic screen-time will see dramatic improvement in their children’s health and behavior.”
— Jessica Solodar, award-winning medical journalist and former medical writer for Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry and the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation

“Parents are constantly asking, ‘What are the effects of screen use on my kids, how much is too much, and how can I regulate the use of screens by my kids?’ Finally, thanks to Dr. Dunckley’s Reset Program, parents have the answers and the tools to work on a solution!”
— Ann Corwin, PhD, MEd, parenting education consultant, TheParentingDoctor.com

About the Author

Victoria L. Dunckley, MD, is an award-winning integrative psychiatrist who has appeared as a mental health expert on such media outlets as the TODAY show, NBC Nightly News, and the Investigation Discovery network. In the past ten years, her Reset Program has helped more than five hundred children, teens, and young adults who failed to respond to conventional treatment alone. She lives and practices in Los Angeles.

Paperback: 384 pagesPublisher: New World Library (July 14, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1608682846ISBN-13: 978-1608682843 Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #19,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #13 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Children’s Health > Learning Disorders #22 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Attention Deficit & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders #23 in Books > Self-Help > Emotions
Required Reading for 21st Century Parents
Electronic screen stimulation has transformed our lives in the early 21st century. It has been embraced by parents and educators with an unquestioning blind optimism and the kind of faith usually reserved for messiahs. We have handed the lives of our children to the alter of technology surrendering them to endless self-stimulation and simulated excitement. This has exhausted them and left them surly and unhappily bored looking for the next electronic fix. They have become further and further disconnected from life as it is really lived. They are left without the skills they need to deal to enjoy real life with its kaleidoscope of interpersonal relationships all taking place in a four dimensional world full of nature and other livings agents.
Victoria Dunckley’s book is a corrective and antidote to the corrosive view that technology only brings good things to children and young adults. Again and again she demonstrates convincingly with case reports from her own practice of child after child damaged by electronic screen stimulation. Robust connections are made to a long list of current mental illnesses afflicting children today. AHD, ADHD, bipolar are just a few of the conditions ravaging the lives of youth in numbers never seen before the introduction of this electronic screen-centric lifestyle that our children are living today. Victoria Dunckley’s wonderful discovery is that these very same conditions can be ameliorated or indeed cured by the simple expedient of by a ‘Screen Reset’.
During a ‘Screen Reset’ all interactive electronic screen stimulation is removed from the child’s life. For three weeks the child’s brain is allowed to rest and recover from the relentless stimulation of these screen devices.
I’ve often written about the dangers of teen substance abuse. Now parents need to add one more danger to the list: the potential for excessive screen time to derail normal development of the PFC.

In her new book, Reset Your Child’s Brain, Dr. Victoria Dunckley describes in detail how teen use of cell phones, TV, computers, laptops, tablets, and video game consoles can create symptoms that look like ADD, ADHD and autism, while physically retarding the normal development of your child’s brain.

Education expert Jane Healy sounded the alarm years ago about the negative effects of screen time in <em>Endangered Minds (1990) and Failure to Connect (1999), but even though her books have been best-sellers, the situation in the youth culture has gotten much worse in recent years.

Motivated by the belief that computers will enhance learning, school systems everywhere are spending billions of dollars to introduce technology to the classroom, even though the research shows the most of these initiatives have little or no positive effect on learning.

Television screen technology and programming have advanced. Nearly every home in the U.S. has a wide thin-screen television, and more innovations are on the way.

A new, more advanced version of cell phones appears on the market every years or so, and young people want them to "stay connected." One survey reported that the average teenager sends 100 text messages a day.</li>

Video games are now a more lucrative business than motion pictures. The holy grail for game producers is virtual reality, a screen experience so real that it doesn’t seem like a simulation; and they are getting ever closer to their goal.

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Second Honeymoon June 24 2013

Second Honeymoon Hardcover – June 24, 2013
Author: Visit ‘s James Patterson Page ID: 0316211222

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PRAISE FOR HONEYMOON:

“[Patterson] again shows his usual flair for brisk narrative, strong suspense and genuine twists…nearly impossible to stop reading.”Publishers Weekly

“Whether you’re cuddled up in front of a fire or basking on a sunny beach, Honeymoon will be over all too soon.”BookReporter.com

“Honeymoon has the quick-cut pacing and visual snap of a screenplay.”BookPage.com

About the Author

James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson’s books have sold more than 300 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.

Series: HoneymoonHardcover: 432 pagesPublisher: Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition (June 24, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0316211222ISBN-13: 978-0316211222 Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #277,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #916 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Serial Killers #2684 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Crime > Murder #36085 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States
Through the last years I have learned to pick an choose which James Patterson’s novels to read, especially since he started co-authoring..With "Second Honeymoon" I would say he has another hit on his hands….This is such a fast paced, psychological/thriller you won’t want to stop turning the pages…The in-depth characterization, the pairing of returning suspended FBI Agent, John O’Hara and new Agent Sarah Brubaker was brillant…They each complement each other’s personality which adds an element of "humor" to the story..((I don’t know but I never found a serial killer novel funny before, so it’s a strange mix))..Which I think you needed with all the pressure they are under trying to identify and catch two psychotic serial killers at the same time..It’s is an actioned packed, fun rollercoaster ride all the way to the shocking end..This is a stand alone novel you don’t have to read the first to understand what’s going on here…The plot flows seamlessly and all ties together in the end..

This is not just about the "Second Honeymoon" serial killer case it’s even better…Now we have the "John O’Hara" serial killer on the loose..Well, Agent John O’ Hara was just as surprised to see his name on the CNN News Channel when he turned it on..Pray that’s not your name because the killer will not stop until he finds the right one..He is out to avenge his sister’s death and just hearing that name triggers long dormant, painful memories..But there is a link between the two cases and that’s when Agent Sarah Brubaker gets involved..Through her investigation, she digs through past FBI solved files and comes across the "HoneyMoon" serial killer case from yrs ago..
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2015 Physicians’ Desk Reference, 69th Edition (Boxed) 2015 Edition Edition
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Series: Physicians’ Desk ReferenceHardcover: 2500 pagesPublisher: PDR Network; 2015 Edition edition (December 16, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1563638312ISBN-13: 978-1563638312 Product Dimensions: 9 x 2.1 x 11.1 inches Shipping Weight: 5.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #75,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #31 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Reference > Drug Guides #38 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Reference > Drug Guides #228 in Books > Medical Books > Pharmacology

It is a PDR. Pages and pages of concise data on 99% of every drug there is. It is a good investment if you need or use the data it contains. It is well organized and thought out. I really like it. It is detailed and completely reliable.

However, if you need information on only a few meds then I’d advising using other resources such as the internet (at places you can find on Google) and save your money.

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