Heaven and Hell
Top 10 Heaven and Hell
: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Lathe of Heaven, The Pastures of Heaven, Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858, Heaven and Hell, School is Hell, A Step from Heaven, The Cat Who Went to Heaven
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060595183 |
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of
The Doors of Perception
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0486281221 |
Once regarded as a brilliant eccentric whose works skirted the outer fringes of English art and literature, William Blake (1757–1827) is today recognized as a major poet, a profound thinker, and one of the most original and exciting English artists. Nowhere is his glorious poetic and pictorial...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0060512741 |
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being—for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him—but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams.
The Lathe of Heaven is a dark...
| Author | John Steinbeck |
| ISBN | 0141186097 |
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American naturalism, with its focus on the...
Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
| Author | Todd Burpo |
| ISBN | 0849946158 |
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed--a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven...
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439164850 |
As a princess of Japan in the year 1858, twelve-year-old Kazunomiya lives a life of privilege and luxury. But it is one in which she is a virtual prisoner, kept sheltered behind palace walls, only able to leave for the occasional visit to a temple or shrine. But her predictable life is changing. Japan has...
The last days of the Civil War bring no peace for the Main and Hazard families. As the Mains’ South smolders in the ruins of defeat, the Hazards’ North pushes blindly for relentless industrial progress. Both the nation and the families’ long-standing bond hover on the brink of destruction.
In...
| Author | Matt Groening |
| ISBN | 0007179243 |
I first encountered this book when I was...oh, about 9 or 10. And, while I didn't understand all the humor contained within, I, being a school student and immersed in daily school life, could certainly "get" much of it. And the rest? Well, it went right over my sweet and innocent little pig-tailed head....
| Author | An Na |
| ISBN | 0142500275 |
When Young Ju is four years old, she learns that her family is leaving their small fishing village in Korea to live in Mi Gook. Young Ju has heard enough about Mi Gook to be sure the place they are moving to is paradise, that she and her family are going to heaven.
After flying through the sky for a long...
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
| Author | Elizabeth Coatsworth |
| ISBN | 0689714335 |
This delightful little fable has a compilation of several meaningful animal stories within its pages with the cream of the crop saved for Good Fortune the cat.First published in 1930 and winner of the 1931 Newbery Medal, this wonderful little classic brings together an intelligent and loving white...
"Well, I finally got an idea. When he fails, do like me: think about free elephant ride through Africa for hundreds and hundreds of wonderful animals that nothing could be built—either a wall or a fence of barbed wire—passing large open spaces and crush everything in its path, and destroying everything—while...
The Discovery of Heaven begins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fate has mysteriously and magically brought together, They share responsibility for the birth of a remarkable and radiant boy who embarks on a mandated quest that takes the reader all over Europe and to...
| Author | Anne Rice |
| ISBN | 0345396936 |
Anne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing...
| Author | Marion Meade |
| ISBN | 0140116168 |
She was known for outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories, but there was another side to Dorothy Parker - a private life set on a course of destruction. She suffered through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with...
It feels weird to be describing a book about Jack the Ripper as beautiful, but, in fact, this is a beautiful book. Also fascinating. It's about the letters--some 200+ in all--sent to the police and newspapers and, of course, the Central News Agency--purporting to be from Jack the Ripper. Evans and Skinner...
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
| Author | Samantha Power |
| ISBN | 0060541644 |
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders...
Evidence of Life After Death, Proof of the Afterlife; Heaven is Real, Heaven Exists. Trues Stories of Near Death Experiences and Afterlife Communication. (Book 2 Heaven is Real; Heaven Exists.)
' Evidence of Life After Death, Proof of the Afterlife; Heaven is Real, Heaven Exists. True Stories of Near Death Experiences and Afterlife Communication.'
Is Heaven real? Does Heaven exist?
George Gallup, Jr., of Gallup Poll fame, in his book Adventures in Immortality, reports that five...
| Author | Craig Johnson |
| ISBN | 0670022772 |
Wyoming's favorite sheriff braves a frozen inferno as he races to capture an escaped murderer.
Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaing order in Wyoming's Absaroka County for more than thirty years, but in this riveting seventh outing, he is pushed to his limits....
It's 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing’s that easy in Penny’s family. For starters, she can’t go swimming because her mother’s afraid she’ll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living...
Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality and the Catholic Church
| Author | Uta Ranke-Heinemann |
| ISBN | 0140165002 |
If you have ever been curious why the Catholic Church is so strange when it comes to sexuality, this is the book you want to read. Ranke-Heinemann treats the reader to a brilliant discussion of primary texts that include a merciless pinpointing of where translations were tweaked, or altogether changed...
| Author | Jeanine Cummins |
| ISBN | 0451210530 |
True crime is a somewhat seedy literary genre. At the bookstore, it is usually tucked away in a far corner, in the same way an old video store hid the adult fare behind strings of beads. It is hard to explain away a fascination with true crime, because it’s typically a deep wallow in the worst kind of depravity...
Lord of the White Hell, Book 1
| Author | Ginn Hale |
| ISBN | 0978986164 |
Kiram Kir-Zaki may be considered a mechanist prodigy among his own people, but when he becomes the first Haldiim ever admitted to the prestigious Sagrada Academy, he is thrown into a world where power, superstition and swordplay outweigh even the most scholarly of achievements.
But when...
| Author | Nora Roberts |
| ISBN | 0749932821 |
Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them - which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and...
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0571171788 |
Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.
Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has...
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?"
| Author | P.J. O'Rourke |
| ISBN | 0802137016 |
Back in the mid to late '80s when PJ O'Rourke wrote the pieces that make up Holidays in Hell, the world was a much different place: there was war in the Middle East, the threat of nuclear conflict, sectarian violence...alright, so things haven't changed all that much. Which is one reason why, after twenty...
| Author | Chuck Thompson |
| ISBN | 0805087885 |
The guru of extreme tourism sets out to face his worst fears in Africa, India, Mexico City, and—most terrifying of all—at Disney World
In the widely-acclaimed Smile When You're Lying, Chuck Thompson laid bare the travel industry's dirtiest secrets. Now he's out to discover if some of...
| Author | Robert Jordan |
| ISBN | 1857232097 |
The fifth book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling epic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIME, now reissued with a stunning new cover design.
The bonds and wards that hold the Great Lord of the Dark are slowly failing, but still his fragile prison holds. The Forsaken, immortal servants...
| Author | Adrian Tinniswood |
| ISBN | 1573222445 |
A work of dynamic history that depicts in fascinating detail the cataclysm that was the Great Fire of London and the modern European capital that rose from its ashes.
"By Permission of Heaven" is a thrilling account of the Great Fire of London that makes terrific use of a vast array of first-person...
| Author | John Dalton |
| ISBN | 0743246357 |
Winner of the 2004 Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Heaven Lake is about many things: China, God, passion, friendship, travel, even the reckless smuggling of hashish. But above all, this extraordinary debut is about the mysteries of love.
Vincent Saunders has graduated from college, left...
| Author | Jennifer Haigh |
| ISBN | 0060889640 |
In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.
Exploring themes of restlessness,...
Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
| Author | Grady Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1594749817 |
Written in dead letters... and covered in blood!
Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell.
Where did they come from? Where did they go?...
| Author | Rachel Field |
| ISBN | 1556524919 |
This number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history. The heroine, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin, found herself strangely drawn to her employer; when the Duc murdered his wife in the most...
| Author | Marcus Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 1626721254 |
A bold, genre-bending epic that chronicles madness, obsession, and creation, from the Paleolithic era through the Witch Hunts and into the space-bound future.
Four linked stories boldly chronicle madness, obsession, and creation through the ages. Beginning with the cave-drawings of...
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
| Author | Eben Alexander |
| ISBN | 1451695195 |
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.
Then,...
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0152890742 |
If I were to rate this book purely by the enjoyment it brought to my children as a read-aloud, I might rate it higher. I found it a bit of a marathon to read to them, but they were with me for every word. The story somehow touches something inside them; it resonates. Perhaps it's the theme of death, touched with...
Never Sit Down in a Hoopskirt and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell
| Author | Crickett Rumley |
| ISBN | 1606841319 |
Expelled from thirteen boarding schools in the past five years, seventeen-year-old Jane Fontaine Ventouras is returning to her Southern roots, and the small town of Bienville, Alabama, where ladies always wear pearls, nothing says hospitality like sweet tea
and pimento cheese sandwiches,...
| Author | Jacquelyn Mitchard |
| ISBN | 0061345784 |
Bridget Flannery and Maureen O'Malley have been BFFs since forever. Then a brief moment of inattention on an icy road leaves one girl dead and the other in a coma, battered beyond recognition. Family and friends mourn one friend's loss and pray for the other's recovery. Then the doctors discover they...
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
| Author | Fannie Flagg |
| ISBN | 1400061261 |
Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?
Life...
| Author | Dinaw Mengestu |
| ISBN | 1594489408 |
A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. Published as The...
