Leslie Haskin achieved great success at Kemper Insurance Company in New York City. She became the Director of Operations and one of only two African Americans to hold executive title within the corporation's eastern region. But 9/11 changed her priorities. In addition to her career, Leslie is active in outreach ministry, serving with Goodwill Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, New York. She spends her time in the inner city spreading the message of hope to the homeless and otherwise lost. She is the founder and executive director of Safe Hugs, a nonprofit organization designed to provide rehabilitation and healing to women and children who are homeless and victims of domestic violence. Leslie has appeared at several memorials honoring the victims and survivors of 9/11. She has served as keynote speaker at national and regional conferences throughout the United States, including The West Point Women of the Chapel and North American Missions Board--World Changers. She lives in Newburgh, New York.

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.

A 9/11 survivor tells of her escape from the Twin Towers and her transformation from a career-focused life to a God-focused life.

Haskin, Leslie

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

A Note to the Reader

Introduction

Part One: In The Beginning

Chapter 1: Eight Million Stories: One Song

Chapter 2: September 11: Perfect in Beauty

Chapter 3: Tower One: The ''It,'' the Ego

Chapter 4: . . . and the Super Ego: Above It All

Chapter 5: Strike One: Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior

Chapter 6: Step-by-Step: Deeper Into Darkness

Part Two: The Enemy Of My Enemy

Chapter 7: Strike Two: From Panic to Pandemonium

Chapter 8: Exit Center: Angels in Our Midst

Chapter 9: War Zone: Spiritual Wickedness

Chapter 10: The Birth of Inspiration: The End of Me

Chapter 11: Goliath Falls: The Beginnings of Sorrows

Chapter 12: It Is Finished: There Is No Other Love

Part Three: Miles To Go Before I Sleep

Chapter 13: Going Home: No Words

Chapter 14: Strike Three: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Learning to Breathe

Chapter 15: The Awakening: Redemption

Chapter 16: Light of the World: Into the Heart of Islam

Chapter 17: The Aftershock: Still About Love

Chapter 18: The Authentic Voice: Never Forget

Chapter 19: Suddenly: I Believe

Chapter 20: Beside Still Waters: The Island

Final Words

About the Author

Timeline of September 11, 2001

Map of World Trade Center Complex

Correspondence

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.

Contains the story of a 9/11 survivor: her escape from the Twin Towers and her transformation from a career-focused life to a God-focused life.

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.

Leslie Haskin has become the voice of hope for many since her miraculous escape from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, which she wrote about in Between Heaven and Ground Zero. Today Leslie is active in outreach ministry and is the founding director of Safe HUGS, an agency that helps victims of domestic abuse. She makes her home in Newburgh, New York.

Eden Customer

A excellent easy to read book about the happenings on September 11th. very well put together, allowing you not to put it down once you have started.

Between Heaven and ground zero

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Before reading this book I had thought of the Twin Towers as just two office blocks. I had not realised just how completely they mirrored the American Dream from a thousand ways to order your coffee to the office politics of the desk with a view. Leslie Haskin has written an account of her escape not just from the horror of the attack but also from the grip of a life lived on the world's terms. Her prose verges on poetry as she describes the scenes in the aftermath of the strike and I was touched by her candour and by her beautiful faith.

Between Heaven and Ground Zero

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