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The Five People You Meet in Heaven #1

Las cinco personas que encontrarás en el cielo

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Eddie, un veterano de guerra de 83 años, vive separado de la gente que amó. Pasa sus días de rutina cuidando los caballos de Ruby Pier, un parque de atracciones en un lugar apartado de la costa. Eddie busca justificar su vida -exhausta de sorpresas- ahora que está cerca de su fin. Una mañana diferente a todas, un accidente en una cabalgadura tiene como víctima a una niña de 5 años. Frente a una muchedumbre horrorizada, Eddie intenta salvar su vida. Lo último que él ve es la cara de la niña asustada envuelta de dolor y lágrimas. Lo último que siente son las manos de la niña en él. Después, un flash cegador de luz y silencio, y Eddie despierta en un desconocido lugar llamado Cielo. Pero no está solo. Cinco personas le esperan para conocerle. Algunas son amables. Otras distantes y extrañas. Su intención es mostrarle a Edie el sentido de la vida, mostrándole cómo sus propias vidas y sus propias muertes han formado parte de su camino de una forma que el nunca sospechó. El viaje de Eddie está a punto de comenzar...

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 23,2003
Series
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Literary awards
lincoln award, 
Places
the united states of america, 

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Format
256 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2013 by Oceano De Mexico
ISBN
9789706518996
ASIN
9706518991
Language
Spanish; Castilian
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Author, screenwriter, philanthropist, journalist, and broadcaster Mitch Albom is an inspiration around the world. Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-eight languages worldwide. He has written eight number-one New York Times bestsellers — including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022. He has also written award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. He appeared for more than 20 years on ESPN, and was a fixture on The Sports Reporters. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and was the recipient of the Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement.

Following his bestselling memoir Finding Chika, and Human Touch, a weekly serial written and published online which raised nearly $1 million for pandemic relief, he returned to fiction with The Stranger in the Lifeboat, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List after being #1 on Amazon. His much-anticipated new novel, set during the Holocaust, is coming in the fall of 2023.

Albom now spends the majority of his time in philanthropic work. Since 2006, he has operated nine charitable programs in southeast Michigan under his SAY Detroit umbrella, including the nation's first medical clinic for homeless children. He also created a dessert shop and popcorn line to fund programs for Detroit's most underserved citizens. Since 2010, Albom has operated Have Faith Haiti in Port-au-Prince, a home and school to more than 60 children, which he visits every month without exception.

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Deadman_Nikki
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April 17,2025
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من کتاب رو به صورت صوتی و با صدای آرمان سلطان زاده گوش دادم. فوق العاده بود.
برای من سراسر امید و معنا بود این کتاب و همونطور که حس خوبی درمورد مرگ به آدم میداد درمورد زندگی هم همینطور بود. انگار از یه جایی به بعد، دیگه شخصیت داستان، ادی نبود، خودت جای ادی بودی و داشتی توی بهشت قدم میزدی و.....
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bluebenny123
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April 17,2025
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This book is very imaginative I'll give the author that much at least. I don't know if I liked the story so much as the way it was written. Don't get me wrong, the story was very creative and it made you think, but he wrote so poetically it was hard for the words not to sink into your soul. The story was about a old crippled man named Eddie. Eddie worked at an amusement park called Ruby Pier and he was the head maintenance worker. The book starts on the day of his death. There was this little girl in the amusement park and her mom had left her alone so she could go on the rides with only her boyfriend and not her daughter. There was this ride at Ruby Pier called Freddy's Free Fall and it is one of those rides that you're at the top of a really tall pole and it just let's the cart drop and it's really fast until something catches it and you slow down right at the very end. So anyway, as Eddie is doing his rounds Freddy's Free Fall breaks and the cable is starting to snap (but nobody knows this yet) and there are people at the top and Eddie goes and tells his co-worker to get the people out of the cart and then to let the cart drop. But then as his coworker has gotten everyone out of the cart and preparing to let it drop Eddie realizes that it's the cable and if they let the cart drop, the cable will snap and it will fall off its tracks into the crowd of people that had formed below. Eddie tries to yell to his coworker but he doesn't hear him and so Eddie yells to the crowd to get back. The people listen...all except for the little girl. So as his coworker lets the cart down Eddie runs to save her but as soon as the cart falls on him, he feels two little hands in his. He doesn't know if he saves her. Then he has to go to heaven and meet five people that will explain to him about his life. I think this book was very inspiring. I was surprised at the ending and I thought that is was very good. I just really enjoyed reading Mitch Albom's work mainly I think because of the poetry. It was written in a very captivating style. I think that my favorite phrase that the author used was to describing Eddie. "...this was who he was and who he would always be, a man with sand in his shoes in a world of mechanical laughter and grilled frankfurters." Mechanical laughter and grilled frankfurters. This book should be read by anyone and everyone and although it is not very religious, it really made me think about life and life after death. VERY GOOD READ!
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Miss__Manga__
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April 17,2025
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Not my kind of book but read it for book club. All about the interconnectedness of all people and events in our lives. A bit hokey. Nothing you haven't heard before. Nothing inspirational or thought-provoking.
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jmhj
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April 17,2025
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I thought this would be a more uplifting book with those Eddie met be people whose lives were positively uplifted by Eddie as he "arrived" in Heaven, but alas, I didn't feel that. I tried my best not to compare this to "Tuesday's With Morrie" which I really liked.

Meeting his wife again was a very good story line and her entire life from the first time she met Eddie to when she died was well conceived and written. The four other people he met were such a great mix of characters and other than his military Captain, I tried really hard to see where they fit into his life.
I'm not sure that I'll read his follow up "The Next Person You'll Meet In Heaven".

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tembrook
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April 17,2025
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I was disappointed with this book. The premise has a lot of potential, but the story didn’t deliver. I’d hoped for something more subtle. I wanted the five people Eddie met to have done something more ordinary that had changed his life. Those everyday little things, that might not even matter that much to one person, but have a huge impact on another. Those people you forgot about or failed to give the credit they deserved in daily life. But every encounter involved someone dying tragically, mostly in an unusual way. It was all very clunky and heavy-handed.

I mean, the book is ok. It’s easy to read, but it didn’t have any impact on me and I didn’t find it uplifting. It felt like it was written by a single man in his thirties who’s not as wise as they think they are. The idea needed to be dealt with in a more thoughtful, delicate, and inventive way.

I think if you want a life-affirming story, which shows you your time on earth meant more than you realised, watch ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, instead.
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taramenon
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April 17,2025
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5 stars:

-If your going through grief, I think this book could be helpful. This author is superb.
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petong2hug
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April 17,2025
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The book, The Five People you Meet in Heaven, is about a man named Eddie, that on his 83rd birthday, got killed in a tragic accident at an amusement park, trying to save a little girl. As Eddie is dying, he feels two hands in his, than his world rapidly goes black. He awakens and the skies are changing colors above him, and every wound he had on his body is now healed. Throughout Eddie's journey, he meets five people. People he has not met before, or people he has only came across once, but have changed his life forever. As he meets these people, each has a special story, that gives Eddie a look back on his life. Everything the five people have to say is pretty important, and it will change the way Eddie looks back at his life, forever.
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Ronin_Ray
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April 17,2025
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This book is one of the manifestations that a book can transform.
The five people you meet in heaven did potently moved me.
Spectacularly written story!
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