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The five people you meet in heaven / Mitch Albom.

Albom, Mitch, 1958- (author.).

Summary:

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

Record details

  • ISBN: 0786868716
  • ISBN: 9780786868711
  • ISBN: 1401308589
  • ISBN: 9781401308582
  • Physical Description: 196 pages ; 19 cm.
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Hyperion, [2003]

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
780L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.7 6 74597.
Subject: Amusement rides > Fiction.
Accident victims > Fiction.
Older men > Fiction.
Heaven > Fiction.
Death > Fiction.
Future life > Fiction.
Amusement parks > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 118 of 134 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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