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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Entering the afterlife due to a hit and run accident, a successful author learns she can observe the earthly lives of her nearly grown children and is also permitted three "nudges" to alter the outcome of events. Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. In the Beyond, she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi...
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Language
English
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What Our Last Words Reveal About Life, Death, and the Afterlife. A person's end-of-life words often take on an eerie significance, giving tantalizing clues about the ultimate fate of the human soul. Until now, however, no author has systematically studied end-of-life communication by using examples from ordinary people. When her father became terminally ill with cancer, author Lisa Smartt began transcribing his conversations and noticed that his personality...
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
". . . sets out to explore and explain the many underworlds, otherworlds, heavens and hells believed in by cultures from across the world, throughout history. From paradise gardens to fiery kingdoms, from shadowy isles of the dead to ghostly galleons on an eternal voyage"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"100 Places to See After You Die is written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides. But instead of recommending must-see destinations in Mexico, Thailand, or Rome, this book outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over the past 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners. Where's the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? Which circles of...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. From Christianity to Islam to Hinduism and beyond, from the brush of Michelangelo to the pen of Dante,...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive.
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