The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir

6 best books like The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir (James Brown): I Am the Cheese, The Spellman Files, Drinking: A Love Story, Holy Ghosts: Or, How a (Not So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night, Reaper's Run, Outcast

I Am the Cheese

Author	Robert Cormier
ISBN	0141300515

But I keep pedaling, I keep pedaling...

A photograph of Robert Cormier will show you an old man with a kind face, who was born and grew up in a small town of Leominster in Massachusetts which he never left, who graduated from a private catholic school and wrote articles for the local newspaper....

The Spellman Files

Author	Lisa Lutz
ISBN	0743571355

Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the...

Drinking: A Love Story

Author	Caroline Knapp
ISBN	0385315546

The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist.

Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism....

Holy Ghosts: Or, How a (Not So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night

Author	Gary Jansen
ISBN	1101443375

I had seen a ghost once. I was around 17 at that time, sleeping beside my father inside our solitary hut in our farm and it was almost daybreak. My eyes still closed, I awakened and my thoughts wandered off to a happy recollection of some of my high school classmates. Then I opened my eyes facing the direction...

Reaper's Run

Author	David VanDyke
ISBN	1626260214

When US Marine Sergeant Jill Repeth's blown-off legs begin to regenerate, she thinks it's a medical miracle. But the breakthrough that heals her war injuries is exactly what the government desperately wants to hide - by any means necessary. Hunted, she must cross an America wracked by strife, to try...

Outcast

Author	Aaron Allston
ISBN	0345509064

After a violent civil war, and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic Alliance is in crisis -- and in need. From all corners, politicians, power brokers, and military leaders converge on Coruscant for a crucial summit to restore order, negotiate differences, and determine...