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Basil Hallward's is infatuated and impressed by Englishman Dorian Gray's beauty, and therefore Dorian has been the subject of most of Hallward's oil paintings. While Dorian is posing for a full-length portrait, he meets Lord Henry Wotton, a materialistic man who shares his hedonistic world view, stating that beauty is the only truly important thing in life. Dorian is persuaded to this point and through a course of events sells his soul so that his...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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"100 Places to See After You Die is written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides. But instead of recommending must-see destinations in Mexico, Thailand, or Rome, this book outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over the past 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners. Where's the best place to grab a bite to eat in the ancient Egyptian underworld? Which circles of...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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"From America's top psychic medium and the author of WHEN HEAVEN CALLS comes a new book that reveals all the secrets of the afterlife, including the truth about heaven, what happens to our loved ones when they pass away, and why we never truly die"--Publisher's website.
4) Everwild
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Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
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Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
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Is the Christian hope for resurrection still alive or has it become tired? How can we talk about the Resurrection today? Gerhard Lohfink takes up the question of death and resurrection in this new book. He argues against the dazzling array of today's ideas and expectations and seeks his answers in Scripture, the Christian tradition, and human reason. With his characteristically gentle but clear language, he reveals the power of Christian resurrection,...
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Good Place volume 2
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
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The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place who doesn't know he's made a mistake, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome, or at least the pretty good, person within.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
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Following a civil war, one of the losers, his second in command, a hired muscle, an uncanny female mechanic, the pilot, a professional female companion, a preacher with a shady background, a doctor and his sister a human engineering experiment gone wrong try to survive on the fringes of civilization in a older Firely class freighter called Serenity.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
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Following a civil war, one of the losers, his second in command, a hired muscle, an uncanny female mechanic, the pilot, a professional female companion, a preacher with a shady background, a doctor and his sister a human engineering experiment gone wrong try to survive on the fringes of civilization in a older Firely class freighter called Serenity.
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2019.
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From Executive Producer Michael Schur comes a smart, unique new comedy about what makes a good person. The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
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Following a civil war, one of the losers, his second in command, a hired muscle, an uncanny female mechanic, the pilot, a professional female companion, a preacher with a shady background, a doctor and his sister a human engineering experiment gone wrong try to survive on the fringes of civilization in a older Firely class freighter called Serenity.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Following a civil war, one of the losers, his second in command, a hired muscle, an uncanny female mechanic, the pilot, a professional female companion, a preacher with a shady background, a doctor and his sister a human engineering experiment gone wrong try to survive on the fringes of civilization in a older Firely class freighter called Serenity.
13) Imagine heaven: near-death experiences, God's promises, and the exhilarating future that awaits you
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It's obvious from the bookshelves and the big screen that heaven is on everyone's mind. All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author John Burke is no exception. For decades, he has been studying accounts of people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs). While not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors clearly point to the...
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From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City's only...
15) Mortal engines
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In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"Seventeen-year-old Mitchell discovers a time-travel device that will allow him to escape his internship in Hell's accounting office and return to Earth, but his plans to alter the circumstances of his own death take an unexpected turn when his three closest friends in Hell insist on accompanying him back to the land of the living"--
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Seventeen-year-old Julie Clarke has her future all planned out?move out of her small town with her boyfriend, Sam; attend college in the city; spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes. Hearbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws out his belongings, and tries everything to forget him. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces memories to return. Desperate to hear him one more time, Julie calls Sam's cell phone just...
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are four cosmically bound friends in the fight for their eternity, alongside their former torturer, Michael. Michael, in a fit of panic, had relinquished his role as the Architect to Eleanor, so that she and the gang could help four new residents become better people. Unfortunately, the Bad Place doesn't exactly make their task easy, and its latest move places Chidi in a dire situation, putting his relationship with...
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