heaven

Twenty-nine-year-old material girl Alex Dorenfield, having been killed in a car accident, finds herself in the highest level of heaven where everything is perfect and she is given an assignment to write an essay in order to prove her life was worthwhile or else she will be demoted to a lower lever.

When people and animals try to climb ladders to Heaven to escape problems with snakes, God, His secretary Bruce, and the angel Shaniqua decide that Heaven needs to be much further away.

The final canticle in Dante's "The Divine Comedy" explores humans' desire to merge individual destiny with universal order.

When Arthur's dog Daisy dies, she watches over him from heaven and eventually helps him find a new puppy.

In 1999, in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, Dr. Mary Neal drowned in a kayak when it became pinned at the bottom of a waterfall. This is her story of what happened as she moved from life to death to eternal life and back to life again.

A young boy imagines his grandfather playing with jazz music greats up in heaven.

Bethany, an angel sent to Earth, and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier, defy Heavenly law and marry--leading to a confrontation with the Sevens, rogue angels bent on keeping Beth and Xavier apart, destroying Gabriel and Ivy, and darkening angelic power in the heavens.

The author, a pastor, describes his near-death experience after a car accident in 1989, explaining that he went to Heaven and was brought back to Earth by a miracle, and discusses the impact of the event on his life.