“Death in the Afternoon” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” “Green Hills of Africa” “Hills like White Elephants” “In Our Time” “Islands in the Stream” “The Fifth Column” “The Old Man and the Sea” “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” ...
In “On Re-Reading Novels” (1922) Woolf argued that the novel was not so much a form as an “emotion which you feel.” In Jacob’s Room (1922) she achieved such emotion, transforming personal grief over the death of Thoby Stephen into a “spiritual shape.” Though she takes Jacob ...
Weaving the details of her own experiences as a caregiver through stories of her patients, their families, and their distinctive lives, Dr. Mannix reacquaints us with the universal, but deeply personal, process of dying. With insightful meditations on life, death, and the space between them,Wit...
InThe Next World, historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationships between extraordinary experiences and beliefs in life after death. He first shows how throughout history and around the world, near-death experiences have influenced ideas about the afterlife. Shushan also takes a deep ...
"Living I Was Your Plague, O Pope, dead, I will be your death" are the words Martin Luther wrote on the wall, in chalk, the night before he died. They were the epitaph he wanted to be remembered by. This book, by Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxfo...
stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do....
More Jews are being picked up and put on trains bound for the rumored camps in Poland. She realizes that she must find a way out. “In my present situation all I can expect from life is certain death. Why not gamble for it?” she reasons. Recalling one of the more fantastic schemes...
but they would not, as they continued to maliciously challenge her emotional sanity of reality. With her empathic emotions shattered between her ex-boyfriend’s deceit and then her father’s death, Cait has no choice and takes one tiny sleeping pill to stop the pain…and gets more than she...
especially by using the Vedic path. This site has something for everyone interested in Spiritual Enlightenment, Eastern Philosophy, theVedas, Vedic Culture, Yoga, Hinduism, reincarnation, or life after death. It also deals with traveling to the holy places of India, the science of the soul, und...
#64: Death is My BFF (The Death Chronicles #1) by Katarina E. Tonks Book Summary: When Faith Williams almost dies, she makes a pact with Death himself, who promises to return for her soul on her eighteenth birthday. As the fateful day approaches, Faith’s life becomes entangled with ...