John Belushi Is Dead

10 best books like John Belushi Is Dead (Kathy Charles): And Then I Found Out the Truth, Saltwater Vampires, Darkwater, Dreamland Social Club, Over the Moon, Ballads of Suburbia, The Rolling Stone Interviews, Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, The Half-Life of Planets, Notes from the Teenage Underground

AuthorJennifer Sturman
ISBN0545087244
The mysterious, witty, and romantic follow-up to AND THEN EVERYTHING UNRAVELED, which Meg Cabot called "a delight"!


Delia Truesdale is still searching for the truth about her mother, who is in hiding somewhere in South America. But for now, Delia has to make do with her mystery-solving...
AuthorKirsty Eagar
ISBN0143011464
He looked to the sky, praying for rain, a downpour, some sign from the heavens that he should refuse the abomination contained in that flask. But all he saw was the bloated white face of the moon smiling down on him …

And the sky around it was cold and clear and black …

They made their...
Darkwater
AuthorGeorgia Blain
Amanda Clarke is dead.

Her body was found floating facedown by the riverbank, and no one knows what happened. As rumours fly and fear grows, it seems that everyone suspects Lyndon, one of Amanda's friends. He's known for his temper, his cruelty and his criminal family - and now the police want...
AuthorTara Altebrando
ISBN0525423257
Jane has traveled the world with her father and brother, but it's not until her fractured family-still silently suffering from the loss of Jane's mother many years before-inherits a house and a history in Coney Island that she finally begins to find a home. With the help of a new community of friends,...
AuthorDiane Daniels
ISBN1616632925
When seventeen-year-old Tiana moves to Hurricane, Utah, her comfortable world is turned upside down as she traverses the rough waters of adjusting to a small town and new school. Her father insists they were supposed to move here for some unknown, important purpose, and the voice in her head tells her...
Ballads of Suburbia
AuthorStephanie Kuehnert
ISBN1439102821
This book is powerful. It's been haunting me for days, yes haunting me. After I finished, I couldn't help but sit there in a daze. The first thing that popped into my head was "WOW." Granted my emotions were in complete chaos. This isn't a novel for the faint hearted. This novel is moving, it's upsetting,...
The Rolling Stone Interviews
AuthorJoe Levy
ISBN0316005266
Here are the impressions that I got from this book of interviews:

- John Lennon was a complete loon.
- Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love really loved each other and their daughter a lot.
- Ozzy Osborne didn't start out as a guy who liked to bite heads off of bats.
- Spike Lee is a very angry...
AuthorDenise Hamilton
ISBN1936070022
From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels.

Includes classic stories...
AuthorEmily Franklin
ISBN1423121112

Lianna is an aspiring planetary scientist and also a kissing addict. This summer, though, she plans to spend every kiss-worthy hour in the lab, studying stars.

Hank has never been kissed. He's smart and funny and very socially awkward, because he's got Asperger's syndrome. Hank's plan...
AuthorSimmone Howell
ISBN1582348359
Seventeen-year-old Gem loves movies, her feminist mom, and Dodgy, her coworker in a video store (at least she thinks she loves Dodgy). When a school trip inspires Gem to make an underground film, her best friends Lo and Mira are quick to join the project, taking on the roles of producer and star. The film...
AuthorTim Pegler
What do you do when you’ve just lost three of your best mates?
Who do you turn to when your life is suddenly bound to a wheelchair?

Dan has dodged the Reaper again. If he were a cat, five of his nine lives would be gone—when his mates didn’t even get second chances. He’s still grieving...
AuthorLeanne Hall
ISBN1921758643
I really liked Leanne Hall's debut novel This is Shyness . The world that Hall created was phenomenal - a perpetually night-bound suburb called Shyness where the sun has stopped rising; the relationship that blossoms wildly over the course of 24 hours between two strangers from opposite sides of...
AuthorGabrielle Williams
ISBN0143566849
But there I go, getting ahead of myself. Skipping straight to the part where I was front-page news and they were calling me Dorothy, instead of starting at the beginning...

When Dodie's parents go missing just as final year exams are about to start, she convinces herself they're fine. But when...
AuthorRick Copp
ISBN0758204965
Baby, don't even go there!

That was Jarrod Jarvis's catch phrase as the adorable, girl-crazy moppet on the eighties sitcom, Go to Your Room! It was a great ride until the tabloids caught the popular teen idol kissing another guy at the L.A. gay rodeo. Gay and teen heartthrob not exactly being...
AuthorRobert Sellers
ISBN1616080353
“I don’t know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I’m going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.”—Marlon Brando
“I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It’s an absolute miracle that I’m still around.”—Dennis...
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
AuthorDavid L. Ulin
ISBN1931082278
Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic "hall of mirrors," Aldous Huxley a "city of dreadful joy." Jack Kerouac found a "huge desert encampment," David Thomson imagined "Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying...
AuthorSue Bursztynski
ISBN1864718250
Break the curse or howl forever.

Etienne, son of a lord in the kingdom of Armorique, goes to train as a knight with Geraint of Lucanne. Geraint is brave and kind, a good teacher and master - but he has a secret that he has kept from his family. He is bisclavret, a born werewolf. When Geraint is betrayed,...
AuthorSteve Brezenoff
“Brezenoff’s enviable prose captures distinct, compelling characters as they struggle through the often heartbreaking work of becoming adults. Readers will identify with Lily, Noah, and Simon as they try to reconcile their longing for connection with their need to break free.”

—Sara...
Stranded
AuthorJ.T. Dutton
ISBN0061370827
Who abandoned Baby Grace?

A farmer’s discovery in his cornfield thrusts a small farm town into a raging media frenzy—and Kelly Louise into a new home. Who knew a person could feel so completely stranded somewhere with national news coverage?

How is Kelly Louise supposed to shed...
AuthorJerry Stahl
ISBN1582345821
Through a syringe darkly.
There's so little written on Roscoe Arbuckle that I'm grateful for anything, and I find that "fictionalized autobiographies" can sometimes reveal much more than the real thing.
The first part of the book dealing with Roscoe Arbuckle's childhood rings very true,...
AuthorRichard Schickel
ISBN0679749918
"Authoritative . . . highly nuanced . . . gives the reader a palpable sense of Mr. Eastwood's career."
--The New York Times

From the moment The Man With No Name first fixed the screen with his murderous squint, from the first time audiences heard Dirty Harry Callahan growl "Make my day," Clint...
Rose Sees Red
AuthorCecil Castellucci
ISBN0545060796
Partly based on the author's own experiences at the famous Manhattan high school for the performing arts, this novel explores friendship, freedom, and the art of challenging convention.

Set in New York in the 1980s, this story of two ballet dancers (one American, one Russian) recounts the...
AuthorAlan Arkin
Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five: "Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than what I was." An Improvised Life is the Oscar winner's wise and unpretentious recollection of the process--artistic and personal--of...
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN0553574418
Connie Willis's acclaimed time travel novel, "Doomsday Book," swept the major science fiction awards the year it was published. Now, in this new novel, Willis explores the timeless themes of emotion and technology, reality and illusion, and the bittersweet place where they intersect to make art....
Life, Liberty, and Pursuit
AuthorSusan K. Quinn
ISBN1936305232
Love is sudden, fierce, and full of choices ...

When college-bound Eliza falls into a cruise-ship pool, she doesn't expect to fall in love. And when navy recruit David pulls her from the water, he finds her surprisingly hard to resist. But a whirlwind of rescues, candlelit nights, and beachside...
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