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"#1 New York Times Bestseller What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom's profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be ""the Lord."" And he says he can only save them if they all believe in him. Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in. ""Thank the Lord we found you,"" a passenger says. ""I am the Lord,"" the man whispers. So begins Mitch Albom's most beguiling novel yet. Albom has written of heaven in the celebrated number one bestsellers The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The First Phone Call from Heaven. Now, for the first time in his fiction, he ponders what we would do if, after crying out for divine help, God actually appeared before us? In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange man really who he claims to be? What actually happened to cause the explosion? Are the survivors in heaven, or are they in hell? The story is narrated by Benji, one of the passengers, who recounts the events in a notebook that is discovered--a year later--when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat. It falls to the island's chief inspector, Jarty LeFleur, a man battling his own demons, to solve the mystery of what really happened. A fast-paced, compelling novel that makes you ponder your deepest beliefs, The Stranger in the Lifeboat suggests that answers to our prayers may be found where we least expect them."

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A fearless explorer of the wishful and magical. --James McBride, author of The Color of Water Albom allows meaning, whether his own or the reader's, to emerge with a quiet, confident grace. --Publishers Weekly Albom has the ability to make you cry in spite of yourself. --Boston Globe Albom's gift for plucking heartstrings and finding meaning in life, which has endeared him to millions, is on full display. --Booklist He writes like a literary Spielberg: with great impact and emotion, and without being afraid of pathos. --Brigitte (Germany) Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary. --Cecilia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You Think of Mitch Albom as the Babe Ruth of popular literature, hitting the ball out of the park every time he's at bat. --Time

Think of Mitch Albom as the Babe Ruth of popular literature, hitting the ball out of the park every time he's at bat. -- Time Albom allows meaning, whether his own or the reader's, to emerge with a quiet, confident grace. -- Publishers Weekly A fearless explorer of the wishful and magical. -- James McBride, author of The Color of Water Albom has the ability to make you cry in spite of yourself. -- Boston Globe Albom's gift for plucking heartstrings and finding meaning in life, which has endeared him to millions, is on full display. -- Booklist He writes like a literary Spielberg: with great impact and emotion, and without being afraid of pathos. -- Brigitte (Germany) Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary. -- Cecilia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You

"""Think of Mitch Albom as the Babe Ruth of popular literature, hitting the ball out of the park every time he's at bat."" -- Time ""Albom allows meaning, whether his own or the reader's, to emerge with a quiet, confident grace."" -- Publishers Weekly ""A fearless explorer of the wishful and magical."" -- James McBride, author of The Color of Water ""Albom has the ability to make you cry in spite of yourself."" -- Boston Globe ""Albom's gift for plucking heartstrings and finding meaning in life, which has endeared him to millions, is on full display."" -- Booklist ""He writes like a literary Spielberg: with great impact and emotion, and without being afraid of pathos."" -- Brigitte (Germany) ""Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary."" -- Cecilia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You"

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Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty-one million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide. He has written eight number-one New York Times bestsellers--including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time--award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. 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 is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. Albom founded and oversees SAY Detroit, a consortium of nine different charitable operations in his hometown, along with a nonprofit dessert shop and food product line to fund programs for Detroit's most underserved citizens. Since 2010, he has operated the Have Faith Haiti orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.

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