109 used & new from $0.01
See All Buying Options
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
 
Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Womans Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don’t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here.
 
  

Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Womans Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11 (Hardcover)

~ Leslie Haskin (Author)
Key Phrases: Tower One, World Trade Center, Jesus Christ (more...)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


36 new from $0.01 71 used from $0.01 2 collectible from $24.70

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
  Hardcover, July 31, 2006 -- $0.01 $0.01
  Paperback, January 31, 2008 $11.89 $8.06 $3.58

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

God Has Not Forgotten About You: ...and He Cares More Than You Can Imagine

God Has Not Forgotten About You: ...and He Cares More Than You Can Imagine

by Leslie D. Haskin
4.3 out of 5 stars (3)  $11.19
Held

Held

by Leslie D. Haskin
Called: Hello, My Name Is Mrs. Jefferson. I Understand Your Plane Is Being Hijacked. 9:45 Am, Flight 93, September 11, 2001

Called: Hello, My Name Is Mrs. Jefferson. I Understand Your Plane Is Being Hijacked. 9:45 Am, Flight 93, September 11, 2001

by Lisa D. Jefferson
4.7 out of 5 stars (16)  $7.99
Refined by Fire: a family's triumph of love and faith

Refined by Fire: a family's triumph of love and faith

by Brian Birdwell
5.0 out of 5 stars (23)  $10.39
A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11

A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11

by Marian Fontana
4.6 out of 5 stars (28)  $12.75
› Explore similar items

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Leslie's story is raw and real....this powerful story has something to teach every reader." -- Bookloons.com


Product Description

A Second Chance at Life

On the sunny morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, terrorists murdered more than twenty-seven hundred people in an attack on New York City.

Thousands died when a hijacked Boeing 767 slammed into Tower One of the World Trade Center.

It was first blood. For Leslie Haskin, it was a second chance at life.

This is the riveting account of Leslie's harrowing escape--down 36 floors in a doomed and dying building and away from a life focused on perks, prestige, and power. The intervening months brought crippling mental and emotional distress, but from the rubble and ashes, the corporate climber rediscovered the faith of her childhood and now embraces a new life of serving others.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Bethany House (August 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764202863
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764202865
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #620,155 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in this category: (What's this?)

    #56 in  Books > Health, Mind & Body > Mental Health > Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

More About the Author

Leslie D. Haskin
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

› Visit Amazon's Leslie D. Haskin Page
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Search Inside This Book:
Inside This Book (learn more)
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tower One, World Trade Center, Jesus Christ, New York City, Financial Center, Tower Two
New!
Concordance | Text Stats
Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Search Inside This Book:

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Womans Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11
78% buy the item featured on this page:
Between Heaven and Ground Zero: One Womans Struggle for Survival and Faith in the Ashes of 9/11 4.7 out of 5 stars (12)
Called: Hello, My Name Is Mrs. Jefferson. I Understand Your Plane Is Being Hijacked. 9:45 Am, Flight 93, September 11, 2001
7% buy
Called: Hello, My Name Is Mrs. Jefferson. I Understand Your Plane Is Being Hijacked. 9:45 Am, Flight 93, September 11, 2001 4.7 out of 5 stars (16)
$7.99
A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11
6% buy
A Widow's Walk: A Memoir of 9/11 4.6 out of 5 stars (28)
$12.75
Love You, Mean it: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Friendship
5% buy
Love You, Mean it: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Friendship 4.5 out of 5 stars (27)
$2.54
Explore similar items

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
Agree with these tags?

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more
 

Customer Reviews

12 Reviews
5 star:
 (9)
4 star:
 (2)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.7 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It's rare that I read a book that is so graphic in its depiction of horror..., June 5, 2007
By FaithfulReader.com (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
It's rare that I read a book that is so graphic in its depiction of horror that I feel like I need to set it down and walk away for a while. Between Heaven and GROUND ZERO is such a book. In it, Leslie Haskin, an insurance company executive, pulls no punches in recounting her harrowing escape from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

"More than anything, I wish I could speak of joy that came through all of the suffering on that particular morning, but I cannot. There was none, " she writes. "However, in the greatest moments of desperation and overwhelming sorrow, God's loving and outstretched arms were waiting for my acceptance. I now know that His holy presence and peace called to me at every point of overwhelming despondency and paralyzing trepidation.

I know that the Lord walked with me through that concourse. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...

He held me as my head turned about quickly and my eye scoped every inch of what remained. I will fear no evil.

It was another place entirely. It was surreal, like a 3-D movie; too gigantic and slow to participate in, yet too fast for retreat. I felt vulnerable and very mortal. For thou art with me.

Everything I saw broke my heart a little more. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the hour of the Lord for ever.

Amen."

In a note to the reader and at the beginning of the book, Haskin acknowledges that her story is just one fragment of the mosaic of personal stories that make up the truth about what happened on 9/11. Her retelling is flawed insomuch as she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and the factual details of that day continue to be shrouded in a veil of pain. And yet, Haskin provides a brave and powerful testament to the horror perpetrated on 9/11 through her willing to tell us what she remembers, so that we, too, never forget.

The details of Leslie's descent from her top-floor office via a staircase after the planes hit the World Trade Center is like a vision of a descent into hell. Her vivid descriptions of the warped building and suffering people around her are harrowing and disturbing. Even after all the media and cultural attention paid to this event, I gained a new sense of what evil was perpetrated on 9/11.

But more than being a story of collapsed towers, Between Heaven and Ground Zero is the story of a woman undone in a moment of extreme suffering. Leslie freely admits to the pride and hubris she had cultivated and harbored as a result of her successful career. By the morning of 9/11, she had long since strayed from the Christian faith of her childhood, instead worshipping the gods of money and power. And of course, these gods proved fickle during the slow march to safety that started in her office and forced her to continue walking in fear and pain many months after the attacks.

In the years that followed 9/11, Leslie lost her job, her car and her home. Her bout with PTSD has been severe and required intense medication and therapy. Her life as she knew it lay in rubble not unlike Towers 1 and 2. But, very much unlike those towers, Leslie has been rebuilt and stands tall again --- not in her own strength, but in the steadfast love of God.

She writes, "And so I have learned that my life does not belong to me. I understand now how words exhale life, and I will never again hold my breath for so long a time as this. I have relearned to inhale and then to exhale, and as I breathe through Him, the Lord, that is, something wonderful happens --- distance. Space comes between my emotions and me, and it yields an unexpected but welcome gift --- faith. My world broadens until my vision lifts high above the 'soils of despair' and I am soaring. Hallelujah!!"

Hallelujah, indeed.

--- Reviewed by Lisa Ann Cockrel
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational, March 28, 2007
Leslie Haskin begins this first-person 9/11 account by stating that she suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. Given that she barely escaped from the 36th floor of the World Trade Center's Tower One, Haskin's anguish is understandable. In her diary-style memoir, this highly successful businesswoman details the events of that horrific day along with the dramatic changes made to her life - and worldview - following the attacks. Although Haskin's writing tends toward stream of consciousness, which can be difficult to follow, her story is both riveting and inspirational.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not able to put this down !, September 14, 2006
I must confess that my husband is Leslie's literary agent so I could have some bias here! However, I've read and shared this book with several friends and family members and every one of us started reading and had the same experience -- we couldn't stop until the last page was read. For me, this meant staying awake until 4:00 a.m. to finish. I read a lot of books, and this is highly unusual. (I love my sleep!) Though the book's fascination (and resulting compassion) comes through Leslie's excellent description of what it was like to have been in the towers that horrific day -- it touched me on several levels. Anyone who has had to recover from trauma, or struggled to forgive and put the puzzle pieces of their life back together again will find empathy, hope and healing here. Thrivers are given one very precious gift: their renewed focus on what really matters. I came away feeling a little closer to heaven for having walked, vicariously, through Leslie's hell.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Between Heaven and Ground Zero
awesome seller. item arrived very quickly and as promised. A++++++ seller. Would highly recommend them. I wouldn't hesitate to buy from them again!
Published 6 months ago by Melissa J. Finley

4.0 out of 5 stars A Vivid Account
This book provides a very vivid account of the events that took place inside of one of the World Trade Centers during the tragic day of 9/11. Read more
Published 12 months ago by The Reader

5.0 out of 5 stars God will get our attention!
God will get our attention one way or another but it is up to us to listen and Leslie listened. Did God cause 911? No, but He will use circumstances!
Published on November 18, 2007 by Carroll A. Phariss

3.0 out of 5 stars Scary
The first half of this story was ....as I had expected......terrifying. Knowing it was all too true made it even more so. However.... Read more
Published on April 11, 2007 by happy reader

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving
I am a member of the Book Babes Book Club in Georgia, and we have had the opportunity to read many different books from many different authors. Read more
Published on January 11, 2007 by Lajuana Ransaw

5.0 out of 5 stars powerful
This book has blown my mind we used it for our book club in the month of October, every single person cried, our life and faith in God has been change to a higher demension... Read more
Published on January 9, 2007 by Marlene Simpson

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful Book
The author describes her life before, during and after 9-11. She shares with us a "coming of age" story in which she grows from a woman interested in reaching the top, into a... Read more
Published on November 11, 2006 by R. Barrington

5.0 out of 5 stars One of God's 9/11 survivors
Reviewed by William E. Cooper for Reader Views (10/06)

Leslie Haskin provides us with an excellent, and from the heart, telling of her personal experiences in the... Read more
Published on November 7, 2006 by Reader Views

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Life / Between Ground Zero
This book put me inside of the World Trade Center during that tragic event of 911. I highly recommend it to all who wants a glance into reality and to always remember in our... Read more
Published on November 4, 2006 by Dwayne E. Tyler

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   

So You'd Like to...


Create a guide

Product Information from the Amapedia Community

Beta (What's this?)

Look for Similar Items by Category

Look for Similar Items by Subject

Search Books by subject:




















i.e., each book must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...
Ad
 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.



Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.