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  The Wish List

  by Eoin Colfer

  Meg Finn is in a tough spot. Really tough. For her last act on Earth, she committed a crime - and lost her life as a result. Now Meg's spirit is stuck in limbo, due to a dead-even tally of good and evil deeds. Meg's only chance at salvation is to return to Earth and stack on a few more good deeds - namely, helping the old man whose apartment she was robbing during her last appearance. For better or worse,... (more)
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  A Touch Mortal: Book 1

  A Touch Mortal

  by Leah Clifford

  Eden didn’t expect Az.Not his saunter down the beach toward her. Not his unbelievable pick up line. Not the instant, undeniable connection. And not his wings.Yeah.So long happily-ever-after.Now trapped between life and death, cursed to spread chaos with her every touch, Eden could be the key in the eternal struggle between heaven and hell. All because she gave her heart to... (more)
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  Soul Savers: Book 1

  Promise

  by Kristie Cook

  Alexis Ames has a life full of promise…but not all promises can be kept.When Alexis Ames is attacked by creatures that can’t be real, she decides it’s time she learns who she really is, with or without the help of her mother, who guards their family’s secrets closely. After meeting the inhumanly attractive, multi-talented Tristan Knight, however, Alexis retreats behind her façade of normalcy…until she... (more)
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  Paradise Lost / Paradise Regained

  by John Milton

  Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed; he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God’s beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance. In this dramatic and influential epic, Milton tells the story of the serpent and the apple, the fall of man and the exile from... (more)
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  The Fallen Chronicles: Book 1

  Fall

  The Last Testament of Lucifer Morningstar

  by David Scott Hay

  "DSH's writing is witty, smart and precise." - Chicago Sun-Times For fans of Neil Gaiman and Steven Brust And so it came to pass in the waning days of our century that a curious deal was struck between Heaven and Hell, or more specifically between Lucifer Morning Star and the Presence. The Book of Life, that book that holds the names of those souls deemed for salvation has been stolen from the Silver City.... (more)
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  Highway To Hell

  by Alex Laybourne

  Marcus, Becky, Richard, Helen, Sammy and Graham. All complete strangers, different ages, backgrounds and even countries, but they all have one major thing in common… They all must DIE. Sentenced to offer their penance in the many chambers of Hell, their lives are nothing but a torturous experience. They are brought face to face with their past, their mistakes and the implications that had for others. Until one by... (more)
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  Torment

  by Jeremy Bishop

  Small town reporter, Mia Durante, finds herself having brunch with the President of the United States on the day civilization comes to an end. An electromagnetic pulse blinds the U.S. Cars crash. Planes fall. Chaos reigns. Power is restored within minutes, but it’s already too late. Russian nukes are falling. U.S. allies around the world are all ready wiped out. The United States will cease to exist inside of five... (more)
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  Allegory

  by Robby Charters

  A Novella: Imagine waking up in a strange pace. you have no memory of how you got there, nor who you are. one thing becomes increasing clear: this isn't the same world in which you went to sleep. it's ... ALLEGORY ...it's about heaven and hell, and how they begin in the same place.
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  2013: Beyond Armageddon

  by Robert Ryan

  BEFORE THE BEGINNING...The war between Good and Evil began in the untime. Long before the universe existed, God's beloved archangel and his legion rebelled and were cast into Hell. And Lucifer became Satan. OCTOBER 1947. Two scrolls are discovered. One was written by Lot, after his escape from Sodom. The other is the precursor to the Book of Revelation: the Apocalypse of Enoch, personal... (more)
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  Purg: Book 1

  Purg

  by Nicholas Black

  Why are the Forces of both Heaven and Hell fighting over the Soul of a Serial killer, on Earth? A serial killer is roaming the streets of Los Angeles. The police can't catch him; the FBI can't understand him; and nobody―including the 'voices'―can stop him. In another part of the panicked city, a young mother struggles to keep her small family together. The problem is that forces, which humans can barely... (more)
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  Cradle and All

  by James Patterson

  James Patterson's Cradle and All pits the intensity of faith against the certainties of science within an arena of Millennial tensions. A reworking of his 1980 apocalyptic thriller Virgin, this remodeled version boasts a genuinely unnerving premise, amplified with Patterson's fast-paced, uncluttered prose. In the midst of a series of unexplained plagues and famines, two teenage girls are heavily pregnant, despite... (more)
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  Divine Comedy: Book 1

  The Inferno

  by Dante Alighieri

  The epic grandeur of Dante’s masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination.No human should be allowed to die before they read this epic comedy.The new Hollander (Robert & Jean) translations are excellent.
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  Witches Anonymous: Book 1

  Witches Anonymous

  by Misty Evans

  Can a bad witch go good in thirteen steps? Not if Lucifer has his way with her!A Tickle My Fantasy story.Amy Atwood is a witch. Not the harm-none kind…the Satan-worshipping, devil-made-me-do-it kind. But after catching Lucifer in a particularly wicked hex act with her goodie-two-shoes Wiccan sister, Amy does what every self-respecting witch would do. She pops a Dove chocolate in her mouth, ends... (more)
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  Lutheranism 101

  by Concordia Publishing House

  Here you stand, wondering what the Lutheran Church is all about.Lutheranism 101 examines our Lutheran beliefs and heritage in a fresh way. If you are a lifelong Lutheran searching for more information or new to Lutheranism looking to understand what we believe, this book will be your guide.
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  Logic of Demons: The Quest for Nadine's Soul

  by H. A. Goodman

  What would you do if the love of your life was murdered by a deranged killer? Would you become a vigilante and seek retribution? And would this revenge affect those you care for in the afterlife? LOGIC OF DEMONS The Quest for Nadine's Soul takes you on a journey inside the psyches of men and women forced to deal with the spiritual consequences of their decisions. Through the lives of a demon, two Angels, and a... (more)
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  Love Wins

  A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

  by Rob Bell

  Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"?Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to... (more)
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  Fenestra: Book 2

  Wildcat Fireflies

  A Meridian Novel

  by Amber Kizer

  Meridian Sozu is a Fenestra—the half-human, half-angel link between the living and the dead. She has the dark responsibility of helping souls transition safely into the afterlife. If people die without the help of a Fenestra, their souls are left vulnerable to be stolen by the Aternocti, a dark band of forces who disrupt the balance of good and evil in the world and cause chaos. Having recently lost her beloved... (more)
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  Fallen: Book 4

  Rapture

  by Lauren Kate

  The sky is dark with wings. . . .Lucinda Price steps out of the Announcers with new knowledge about her past lives. Luce's true love, Daniel, begins to retrace the Angel's steps from the Fall. Through a book written by Daniel they struggle to find the important relics needed to find the original place of the fall. Outcasts, Demons, Transeternals and Angels team up to break Lucinda's and... (more)
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  Mr. Twilight

  by Michael Reaves, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

  In bookshop specializing in rare volumes, an avid fan of horror fiction seizes a tome too valuable and too incredible to fathom. In the end, the man was too curious to live. . . . A few miles away, in a Manhattan brownstone, another man learns about the explosion that left a gaping hole in the fabric of reality. Colin–he has no other name–has been an unrelenting warrior against the dark, the demonic, and the... (more)
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  Heaven and Hell

  by Aldous Huxley

  Heaven and Hell is a philosophical work by Huxley, published in 1956. The title is derived from The Marriage of Heaven & Hell by Blake. It discusses the relationship between bright, colorful objects, geometric designs, psychoactives, art & profound experience. Reference bring out two possible sides of mystical experience. When doors of perception open one can experience both extremes. But the import of the... (more)