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"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
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Conor O'Neill faces his cowardice and visits the underworld to bargain with the Lady who can prevent the imminent death of a family member, but first Ashling, the banshee who brought the news, wants to visit his middle school
Topics: Paranormal fiction, Banshees, Death, Future life, Middle schools, Schools, Supernatural, Banshees,...
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Fine, Sarah, author;Fine, Sarah. Sanctum Sequel to
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437 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: Good and evil -- Juvenile fiction, Soul -- Juvenile fiction, Hell -- Fiction, Good and evil --...
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Uncle Mort rounds up sixteen-year-old Lex, the other Junior Grims, and Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time, for a journey to Necropolis, where only an impossible choice can save the Afterlife from destruction
Topics: Death, Future life, Ghosts, Humorous stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General,...
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Eleven-year-old Milton and his older sister Marlo are led by the Glib Reaper to Camp Snivel, the level of Heck for whiners, but manage to escape, only to be caught and taken to the court of Judge Judas to testify at Satan's trial
Topics: Trials, Humorous stories, Future life, Brothers and sisters, Camps, Future life, Brothers and...
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Cole, Frank, 1977- author
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Topics: Future life -- Juvenile fiction, Dead -- Juvenile fiction, Schools -- Juvenile fiction, Future life...
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"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,...
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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
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336 pages ; 18 cm
Topics: European Council for Nuclear Research -- Fiction, European Council for Nuclear Research, Nuclear...
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"A Hereafter novel"--Jtk. cover
Topics: Future life, Near-death experiences, Good and evil, Families, Future life, Near-death experiences,...
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-388) and index
Topics: Immortality (Philosophy), Immortality, Future life, Immortalism, Future life, Immortalism,...
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Albom, Mitch, 1958- author
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Topics: Future life -- Fiction, Heaven -- Fiction, Miracles -- Fiction, Impostors and imposture -- Fiction,...
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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,...
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Topics: Conduct of life -- Fiction, Future life -- Fiction, Reincarnation -- Fiction, Death -- Fiction,...
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Topics: Future life -- Juvenile fiction, Near-death experiences -- Juvenile fiction, Good and evil --...
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Seventeen-year-old Felicia Ward is dead and spending her time in the hive reliving her happy memories--but when Julian, a dark memory from her past, breaks into the hive and demands that she come with him, she discovers that even the afterlife is more complicated and dangerous then she dreamed
Topics: Future life, Death, Angels, Future life, Death, Angels
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Armstrong, Kelley. Suffer the children; Golden, Christopher. Pipers; Liss, David, 1966- Bad season for necromancy; Maberry, Jonathan. Alive day
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Four terror-inducing novellas from acclaimed bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong, David Liss, Christopher Golden, and Jonathan Maberry beginning with the premise: "A stranger comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk's dearly departed from the dead--for a price." In Kelley Armstrong's "Suffer the Children," an acute diphtheria outbreak kills most of the children in an isolated village in nineteen-century Ontario. Then a stranger arrives and offers to bring the children...
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Topics: Allied health personnel -- Fiction, Future life -- Fiction, Allied health personnel, Future life
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Topics: Future life -- Juvenile fiction, Death -- Juvenile fiction, Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction,...
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Topics: Fauster, Milton (Fictitious character), Fauster, Marlo (Fictitious character), Future life --...
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Topics: {u'11': u'Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction', u'10': u'London (England) --...
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"Although doctors want to treat 17-year-old Emery Land for the seizures that define her life, she runs away from the hospital in the hopes of uncovering the secret behind her "loops"--The moments during her seizures when she travels to different places and moments in time"--
Topics: Convulsions, Near-death experiences, Future life, Man-woman relationships, Missing persons,...