Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old. In chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogs his gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers arriving at this milestone age. As wise and poignant as they are funny, Crystal's reflections are an unforgettable look at an extraordinary...

Days with Sir Roger De Coverley' is an essay by the duo Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. It gives a fictional account of visiting an English gentleman at his country estate and the quirky characters who live and work there. The narrator spends time with Sir Roger, touring his expansive country seat and listens to him as he recounts his life's experiences. We also get to see a Sunday service in the estate chapel, with Sir Roger himself making sure...

In Boston a narcoleptic private detective dreams about a reality show contestant asking him to help get her stolen fingers back and awakens to find on his desk a manilla envelope containing revealing photos of her.

"Winter is coming, and Poppy and Sam's tiny garden neighbors are getting ready to hibernate. After stocking their pantries for the colder days ahead, Poppy and Sam settle in for a long winter's nap as well. But what is Poppy doing wrong? She can't sleep and nothing seems to work! Determined to hibernate like her friends, Poppy sets out with Sam to ask the other creatures for their deep-sleep secrets. But advice from the bees (snuggling into a honeycomb),...

"When a boy can't fall asleep, he asks the animals--including giraffes, koalas, and humpback whales--for their help"--

"Texas is experiencing its worst season of wildfires in a decade, forcing police chief Josie Gray to evacuate the citizens of Artemis. Not everyone makes it out alive, however. In the fire's wake, she discovers the body of someone who never left town, lying dead in the house of a local country music singer. Beside the body lies a syringe carrying traces of heroin. It seems as if the deceased nodded off and then missed the evacuation. But as Josie...

How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a "white out," so that every time you use it is the first time--new, fascinating, vivid? Michael W. Clune's story takes us straight inside such an addiction--what he calls "the memory disease." With dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune's account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious...

CIA agent who sacrifices everything for his employers, including his family and, ultimately, his own life. No sooner has he shuffled off this mortal coil, though, than he finds himself mysteriously resurrected for one last mission that's timed to last exactly 24 hours. Once the countdown clock embedded in his arm reaches zero, he'll once again nod off into an eternal slumber if he hasn't completed his task.

"Just like people, animals have their own sleep routines--but in the wild, these bedtime habits are a little wackier than the teeth brushing and pj-donning that you're used to. Maria Birmingham's latest book project, Snooze-O-Rama, draws playful comparisons between the ways humans and animals sleep, bringing a new angle of interest to an aspect of children's daily routines that they might otherwise take for granted. Each animal snooze fact is prompted...

The sun is sinking low, and Sleepytown is ready to say, "Night night!" Join bestselling author Amy Parker and award-winning illustrator Virginia Allyn in the latest Night Night adventure through Sleepytown, the charming little village where residents are drifting off to dreamland, just like your little one is sure to do. Sleep may come slowly for many toddlers, and Night Night, Sleepytown is just the cozy story to help your little one nod off for...