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Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Based on the author's real-life story of dying on a mountain, this enthralling book combines the thrills of a wilderness adventure with the awe inspiring elements of a paranormal novel. In March of 1980, college senior Peter Panagore went ice climbing on the world-famous Lower Weeping Wall, along the Ice Fields Parkway in Alberta, Canada. His climbing partner was an experienced ice climber, but Panagore was a novice. On their descent, they became...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
8) Resurrection
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A woman experiences clinical death and returns to life with the amazing ability to heal others. Attributing her powers to human love, rather than divine intervention, she begins to aid the residents of her childhood town. No one she touches will ever be the same again.
9) Tikkun
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
עברית
Description
After dying for 40 minutes, a scholar is revived. After he comes back to life, suddenly feeling strange, he suspects God is testing him.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"The owner of a gun store embarks on a scheme to avoid bankruptcy by using his son’s resurrection from a near-fatal drug overdose to create what he believes is the greatest television commercial anyone has ever seen"--
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Through the years and the struggles, when life seemed more about hurt and loss than hope and mercy, God was positioning the Smiths for something extraordinary--the death and resurrection of their son. When Joyce Smith's fourteen-year-old son John fell through an icy Missouri lake one winter morning, she and her family had seemingly lost everything. At the hospital, John lay lifeless for more than sixty minutes. But Joyce was not ready to give up on...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shares the author's minute-by-minute account of his religiously transformative near-death experience and revealing week-long coma, describing his scientific study of near-death phenomena while explaining what he learned about the nature of human consciousness. "Near-death experiences are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Teresita, the illegitimate daughter of a late-nineteenth-century rancher, arises from death possessing the power to heal, she is declared a saint and finds her faith tested by the impending Mexican civil war.
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Neal takes readers deeper into her experience, which includes encounters with angels, a journey to a "city of light," and what it was like to meet Jesus face-to-face. Even more, Neal shares how she came back with clarity that the God we hope for - the one who knows us, loves each of us as though we are the only one, and wants us to experience joy in our daily life - is worthy of our absolute trust. She offers practical insights and inspiration...
15) Breakthrough
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the inspirational true story of one mother's unfaltering love in the face of impossible odds. When Joyce Smith's adopted son John falls through an icy Missouri lake, all hope seems lost. But as John lies lifeless, Joyce refuses to give up. Her steadfast belief inspires those around her to continue to pray for John's recovery, even in the face of every case history and scientific prediction. A reminder that faith and love can create a mountain...
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1. ed. en español.
Language
Español
Description
Discover an epic historical novel of a young saint escaping death from Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels.
This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target—a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie's second time playing Manifest...
18) Ghost town
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Bertram Pincus is an irritable dentist whose people skills leave much to be desired. Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him. Frank Herlihy, in particular, pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. Now, Pincus is put squarely in the middle of a triangle with spirited...
Series
Criterion collection volume 939
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
English
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
Publisher
Viva Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018}
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
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