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简介： 所属分类：进口、港台 > 小说 fiction > part melodrama and part parable, mitch alboms the five people you meet in heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old eddie, the head maintenance person at ruby point amusement park. as the novel opens, readers are told that eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. albom then traces eddies world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. in alternating sections, albom flashes back to eddies birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. and in the third and last thread of the novel, albom follows eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la a christmas carol). each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into eddies own in ways he never suspected. each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. through them eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs. albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. but, for the most part, alboms telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. even with its flaws, the five people you meet in heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to its a wonderful life. --patrick okelley --this text refers to the paperback edition. 作者简介：mitch albom is the author of the international bestsellers the five people you meet in heaven and tuesdays with morrie, as well as six other books. he also writes screenplays and stage plays. albom servers on numerous charitable boards and has funded three charities in the detroit area. he lives with his wife, janine, in michigan.

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简介：     From the author of The Five People You Meet in Heavenand Tuesdays with Morrie, a new novel that millions of fans have been waiting for.     "Every family is a ghost story . . ."          Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Timesbestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heavenand Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss.          For One More Dayis the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?          As a child, Charley "Chick" Benetto was told by his father, "You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both." So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.          Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life.          He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother--who died eight years earlier?-is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened.          What follows is the one "ordinary" day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.          Through Albom's inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love--and may have thought they'd lost--in their own lives. For One More Dayis a book for anyone in a family, and will be cherished by Albom's millions of fans worldwide.

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简介：     "Clear some space on your bookshelf for Mitch Albom's, Have a Little Faith, the story of a faith journey that could become a classic. Those who were born into faith, have lost faith, or are still searching will all be engaged and challenged by this powerful story of "finding faith" in relationships with others and with something greater than ourselves. Never satisfied with easy answers or soft platitudes, Mitch explores some of life's greatest mysteries and unanswered questions with great honesty, depth and self reflection. "     --Jim Wallis, CEO and Founder of Sojourners and author of The Great Awakening     What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?          In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere.          Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faithbegins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.          Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.          Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.          As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds--and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.          In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.          Have a Little Faithis a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story.          Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.

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简介：Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the same books so they can have something to talk about in the hospital waiting room. Their choices range from classic (Howards End) to popular (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), from fantastic (The Hobbit) to spiritual (Jon Kabat-Zinn), with many in between. We hear their passion for reading and their love for each other in their intimate and searching discussions. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between a child and parent, and the power of reading in our lives. 'A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them.' - Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie 'a true meditation on what books can do.' - Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes

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简介：Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.