Twelfth Angel

by Og Mandino

Book Overview

"A very special story about life and love and courage."
MERLIN OLSEN, SPORTSCASTER
John Harding had a high-powered career, a loving wife, and a beautiful son. He's lost it all and has returned to his home town of Boland, New Hampshire, teetering on the brink of suicide. But an old friend asks John to manage his old Little League team, the Angels. Reluctantly, he agrees, and meets a hopeless player who bears a striking resemblance to his dead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449911500
• ISBN13: 9780449911501
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

An emotive story

This book is really interesting. The only bad thing is that I don't know a thing about baseball and I couldn't understand some parts of the book.

The Passion For Life Discovered!

This is one of the most heart warming books that I have ever read. A friend suggested the book to me at a point in my life when challenges and disappointments were simply overwhelming. I felt dispair just as John Harding did. I shared that same emptiness in my heart and within my soul... I questioned the reason to live or at least how my life could be of any value when everything seemed so bad!?! This book was exactly what I needed to read so that I could find "the true meaning of life". This book was my first stepping stone to really change my life- I continue to read other inspirational/motivational books, etc. I would like to thank this very special man for entering my life. I really needed that same enthusiam for life that he holds in his heart and through his actions. His optimisim motivated me enough to discover things about myself and for that I am eternally grateful. I thank you, Matt. You are indeed a true friend.

One of Mandino's Best!!!!!

I absolutely adore Og Mandino and he is my all time favorite author. I have just about all of his books and have read numerous books more than once. I cannot begin to describe the hope and inspiration he has provided to me in my times of despair. The world is a much better place because of the love, power, and strength of Og Mandino's literary jewels.The Twelfth Angel is a powerful testament to courage, faith, hope and most importantly, love. I have carried that quote from Winston Churchill around with me for years, "Never, never, never, never, never give up!". Og is able to take the reader to heights I have never before felt with another author. I can now understand readers writing to him with their testimonies of wanting to end their life and after reading a Mandino story, they were infused with such hope and the courage to go on. This story will do that for you as well.I am sure that we all have felt and experienced soul wrenched despair and thinking the only solution was suicide. John Harding, the main character, experiences these very thoughts and feelings and angels appear in his life in the form of some very special people, including a very special little boy named Tim. I really believe that it is little Timmy who gives John the will to live again and John helps to give back to Timmy, as he embraces life once again.This is story which will make you cry and yet have you soaring on hope and love. As I said in the beginning, I absolutely love Og Mandino and have nothing but the highest praise for each and every one of his books. I re-read them often and share them with friends. I guarantee that you too, will fall in love with this incredible author - an angel himself.Please give this book to your children to read - it will have an impact on them - guaranteed. This is the kind of book that will stay in your heart for days.

Es un gran libro, con un mensaje de valor impresionante

Es un libro que se puede definir en dos palabras: amor y valor, cuando uno se menosprecia nunca llega a ningún lado, en cambio cuando confiamos en nosotros mismos hacemos lo que nos proponemos y este libro es un ejemplo de ello.

GREAT!!!

Og Mandino has written books that has a lasting positive effect on it's readers. The Twelfth Angel outdid all his other books. To say that the book is inspiring, is a great understatement. Even if one has not experienced the tragedy of the main characters, one can look at his' experiences in life and see the connection. Og Mandino has written a book that will forever have a lasting impact on me and the others. I'm not sure if the others agree with me but I'll say it anyway.... this is the greatest book Og Mandino wrote!