The Sweet Dead Life

8 best books like The Sweet Dead Life (Joy Preble): Motherless Brooklyn, Grave Witch, The Other Boy, Angel Killer: A True Story of Cannibalism Crime Fighting and Insanity in New York City, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method, Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth, If She Saw, The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking

Motherless Brooklyn

Author	Jonathan Lethem
ISBN	0375724834

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster...

Grave Witch

Author	Kalayna Price
ISBN	0451463803

Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, but that doesn’t mean she likes what they have to say.

As a private investigator and consultant for the police, Alex Craft has seen a lot of dark magic. But even though she’s on good terms with Death himself—who happens to look fantastic in a pair...

The Other Boy

Author	M.G. Hennessey
ISBN	0062427687

A heartfelt and timely middle grade story about a transgender boy’s journey toward acceptance and empathy. Perfect for fans of George and Gracefully Grayson.

Twelve-year-old Shane Woods is just a regular boy. He loves pitching for his baseball team, working on his graphic novel, and hanging...

Angel Killer: A True Story of Cannibalism Crime Fighting and Insanity in New York City

Author

Deborah Blum

In the mid-1920s, young children began to vanish from neighborhoods around New York City. It took the police a decade to find their abductor, an unassuming 64-year-old handyman named Albert Fish. Fish had committed crimes of unspeakable horror: He had not only abducted and murdered the children,...

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method

Author	Allen Carr
ISBN	1402718616

A new edition of the revolutionary bestseller, with four million copies in print. Allen Carr’s innovative Easyway method—which he discovered after his own 100-cigarette-a-day habit nearly drove him to despair—has helped millions kick smoking without feeling anxious and deprived. That’s...

Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth

Author	Jenny McCarthy
ISBN	0738210072

Oh, the joys of pregnancy! There's the gassiness, constipation, queasiness, and exhaustion, the forgetfulness, crankiness, and the constant worry. Of course, no woman is spared the discomforts and humiliations of pregnancy, but most are too polite to complain or too embarrassed to talk about them....

If She Saw

Author

Blake Pierce

“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.”...

The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking

Author	Theresa L. Flores
ISBN	0982328680

Yea....I couldn't even finish this book. FIRST, let me clear that this is nothing personal against her story. What happened to her was terrifying and horrible. My thoughts and review are on her BOOK - how she told her story. I do not think the story was told well. There was lots of repetition - I felt like...