Heaven Is for Real

How Many Of This Year's Bestsellers Have You Read?

Posted 12.28.2011

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Total U.S. book sales of 2011 have been compiled by Nielsen's Bookscan. Their lists feature about 75% of American book sales, and don't include sales ...

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A Trip To Heaven And Back

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 09.10.2011

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Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

I have no quarrel with the success of "Heaven is For Real." It has touched the hearts of many people. But it asks us to suspend our critical thinking. That is what faith is about.

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How In The World Did Colton Burpo Beat Me To Heaven?

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 08.07.2011

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Clay Farris Naff

Here was I, preparing to astonish the world with my tale of a visit to heaven, and I get beaten to the bestseller list by a tow-headed kid.

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Favorite Outdoor Reads

nytimes.com | Amy Goldwasser Is the Editor Of “Red: Teenage Girls in America Write on What Fires Up Their Lives Today.” Peter Arkle Recently Published the 57th Issue Of “Peter Arkle News.” | Posted 08.06.2011

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For many people, summer reading involves SPF, shirtlessness and bare feet in the grass. On a recent partly sunny Sunday afternoon on the Sheep Meadow ...

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May 21 Rapture: Books We Will (And Won't) Be Reading If The World Really IS Ending Tomorrow

Gina Barreca | Posted 07.19.2011

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Gina Barreca

It'd be interesting to see what we'd read if we actually considered ourselves an endangered species. We'd have to give up the pretence and get with the program; we'd have to read only what we know (or believe) we'd love.

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Stephen Hawking: 'There Is No Heaven'

AP | Posted 07.26.2011

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LONDON -- Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking finds no room for heaven in his vision of the cosmos. In an interview published Monday in The...

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Child's Vision Of Heaven To Be Adapted For Film

deadline.com | Posted 07.10.2011

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Sony Pictures has acquired screen rights to the book Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip To Heaven And Back, written by To...

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4-Year-Old Boy's Confirmation Of Heaven Tale Becomes Publishing Phenomenon

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a...

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