New Releases by Mitch Albom

Now in Spanish, the number one New York Times hardcover bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven-- from the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and For One More Day. The Spanish translation of the huge bestseller, Mitch Albom''s The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It''s a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie''s five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

"Son dernier cours, mon vieux professeur l''a donné chez lui." "Le cours avait lieu une fois par semaine, le mardi. Il commençait après le petit déjeuner, portait sur le sens de la vie et s''inspirait, bien entendu, de l''expérience. Aucune lecture n''était obligatoire, et pourtant bien des thèmes ont été abordés : l''amour, le travail, les autres, la famille, le pardon et enfin la mort. Le dernier cours a été bref, quelques mots à peine. A la place de la cérémonie de fin d''études, il y a eu des funérailles. En guise d''examen final, il a fallu écrire un long devoir sur ce que l''on avait appris. C''est ce texte que l''on trouvera ici."

Als er erfährt, dass sein ehemaliger Professor Morrie Schwartz schwer erkrankt ist und bald sterben wird, beginnt der Journalist Mitch Albom seinen Lehrer regelmässig jede Woche zu besuchen. Und er, der meinte, dem Sterbenden Kraft und Trost spenden zu müssen, lernt statt dessen dienstags bei Morrie das Leben neu zu betrachten und zu verstehen. (Buchumschlag).

The inside story of a controversial college basketball team and its coach describes how its five players reached the NCAA as freshmen, how the players were compared to professional-level athletes, and how all overcame inner demons and challenges. Reprint.