About the Author Ilana was born with a disability she didn’t know she had until the age of 46, when through her medical notes she discovered she had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of 2. That discovery turned out to be a unique and life-changing experience that has forc...
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she contracted bacterial meningitis and was given less than a two percent chance of survival. In a near-death experience, she saw three figures who told her: “You can come with us, or you can stay. No matter what happens in your life, it’s all going to make sense in the end.” ...
“The Next Worlddraws together several decades of detailed cross-cultural research on phenomena such as Near-Death Experience, Shamanism, Mediumship, Reincarnation and the Afterlife. Shushan’s great strength is his interdisciplinarity and the depth of his scholarship, which makes this book outstanding ...
STOPPING FOR DEATH I STOPPED FOR DEATH So, it’s been almost a month since my novel RESURRECTING EMILY was bought by Mary Kate Castellani atBloomsbury/Walker, and I have been……exhausted. Weird, right? I mean, I screamed and danced and told just about everyone I spoke to, and then I...
the journey becomes a process of reconciliation with Grandpa’s death. When all hope seems lost and Dahe is about to accept the loss, a pigeon Grandpa once kept finds the urn in a field. This children’s novel is as poetic and symbolic as the other work by Hans Christian Andersen Award...
And we also get a chapter about Flanagan’s near death experience at age 21 in a kayaking accident. So as you can see very Rings of Saturn, very butterfly effect, very one thing leads to another, very internet tab-esque. It’s obviously presenting a view of time in which many things...
Two decades after her death in 1996, Cellan-Jones sifted through 60 years’ worth of his mother’s correspondence to piece together what happened at the time of his birth and why. The letters present both a social history of mid 20th-century Britain and a gripping personal story about the ...
Taking place in three wildly different time periods threaded together by a common story – I don’t want to say too much about this book, it is something you should walk into blindly and experience for yourself. In a word, excellent. Tomorrow and tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ...
‘You will experience only pleasure in my arms. I promise you that. In fact it is a matter of honour that you should relish sharing a bed with me.’ Playing the tip of his tongue erotically across the excruciatingly tender skin of her throat, Santino sent her pulses leaping into sensual...