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A recent Newsweek poll reports that seventy-six percent of Americans believe in heaven. Yet even avid believers have difficulty conjuring up more than vague images of halos, harps and wispy angels in flowing robes. Anthony DeStefano knew there had to be a more complete, meaningful vision of what heaven is like, and A Travel Guide to Heaven is the entertaining and enlightening result.

In A Few Quick Ones, P.G. Wodehouse brings together some of his oldest friends for a party. Jeeves and Wooster are there, so is Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member. And also the Drones, Oofy Prosser, and Bingo Little.

Robert Newton Peck's most touching and famous book is a story so filled with light that once you hear it, you'll never forget it. It is the true story of a young boy growing up on a Vermont farm with the warmth of his Shaker faith and father's love. He must learn from his father, who slaughters pigs for a living, about "doing what's got to be done" when his own pig cannot produce a litter. A Day No Pigs Would Die deals with the cycles of nature, birth, and death with straightforward honesty and heartbreaking poignancy.

If you have an appetite for the occult, consider this a feast. All of the authors in this collection have penned tales that deal with the supernatural and the supernormal. These include two novellas, "The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen and "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood and 10 short stories.

A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.

On the first night of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, former President Bill Clinton addressed the crowd. The speech took place at the Fleet Center in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 26, 2004.

Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture. Dr. Collins has resolved the dilemma that haunts everyone who believes in God and respects science. Faith in God and faith in science can be harmonious, not separately but together, combined into one worldview. For Collins, science does not conflict with the Bible, science enhances it.

John Harmon returns from exile expecting to receive an inheritance, but knows that he must marry a stranger, Bella Wilfer, in order to collect. He fakes his own death and takes on a new identity in order to observe her first. Some of the memorable characters in this, the last completed Dickens novel, include Bella who, unlike other Dickens heroines, cannot be accused of unnatural virtue; the insolent barrister Eugene Wrayburn; the amiable Boffin; and the rascal Silas Wegg.

An old mansion in Salem, moss-covered and gabled, broods over the destiny of a distinguished but troubled New England Family, the Pynchons. A haunting, centuries-old curse, a forceful probing of national and personal guilt, a romance between the young heroine and an attractive stranger all intertwine in this classic work by one of America's greatest novelists.

This collection of stories brings together the writings of some of the greatest authors of all time and contrasts ghost stories of different lands and languages.