"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never...
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Topics: Horror tales, American, Guilt, FICTION, FICTION, Horror tales, American, Future life

"Danny Orchard died on his 16th birthday-and so did his twin sister, Ashleigh-but only Danny came back. He wrote a bestselling memoir about his experience of heaven called The After, but despite his fame and fortune he's never been able to enjoy his second chance at life. His sister won't let him. Charming and magnetic in life, Ash appeared perfect to outsiders but the budding psychopath privately terrorized her family, and that hasn't stopped with her death. She's haunted Danny for twenty...
Topics: Future life, Death, Twins, FICTION, FICTION, FICTION, Death, Future life, Twins, Roman,...

278 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: Future life -- Juvenile fiction, Dead -- Juvenile fiction, Schools -- Juvenile fiction, Future life...

1: A long, personal, but necessary introduction explaining how I came to write this book -- 2: Ancient Egypt, the origins of the afterlife, and the birth of the idea that each of us is a god in training -- 3: The Egyptian and Tibetan books of the dead, the mortal and immortal parts of the soul, and the key differences between the eastern and the western views of the afterlife -- 4: The need for a single map, the imaginary and the imaginal, what the brain does (and doesn't) do, and the nonlocal...
Topics: Future life, Future life, Future life, Future life

336 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: Conduct of life -- Fiction, Future life -- Fiction, Reincarnation -- Fiction, Death -- Fiction,...

Ten-year-old Judith McPherson sees the world with the clear eyes of faith. Other students persecute her for her differences. To escape, Judith builds a Land of Decoration, a model in miniature of the Promised Land. When her father's factory job is threated by a strike and the taunting of school slips into dangerous territory, they threaten the very foundations of Judith's world
Topics: Girls, Fathers and daughters, Good and evil, Miracles, Bullying, Future life, Single fathers,...