Books like Staying Alive by Leonore Fleischer

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

The Goldfinch chronicles the life of thirteen‑year‑old Theo Decker, who survives a museum attack that kills his mother and carries an art piece that becomes a lifelong obsession, exploring loss, identity, and art in contemporary America.

In 1964 South Carolina, Lily Owens, grieving her mother’s death, seeks refuge with a fierce stand‑in mother and a trio of black beekeeping sisters who open her to the secret world of bees, honey, and healing.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A devoted dog reflects on life, love, and racing while watching his owner, a race car driver, navigate family trials and professional ambition.

Two college friends discover that love can span continents and a decade when they reunite after life‑changing choices thrust them apart.

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history's most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our "secular age" in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment's insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling applications. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examining how people in other times have found powerful reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral case against suicide.

A warlock from the Salem witch trials lands in modern-day Los Angeles, hunting for ultimate evil and facing a witch hunter who seeks to prevent the horror of the past from repeating itself.

A historical novel set during the 72‑76 CE siege of Masada, blending the Roman Empire and Jewish resistance in the desert backdrop.

After winning the California karate championship, Daniel travels to Okinawa with Mr. Miyagi to see his mentor’s dying father and becomes entangled in old feuds, new romance, and a ruthless young karate challenger.

A crime thriller adapted from a motion picture, following a pair of partners as they confront a deadly numbers king while navigating danger and rivalry.

Black Christmas is a horror‑filled novelization of the eponymous film, featuring a sinister serial killer stalking during the holiday season.

A novelization that tells the story of how the Muppets came together in the film "The Muppet Movie".

A novelization of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War satire, written by screenwriter Peter George.

A novelization of the Columbia Pictures film "First Knight," this book brings the legendary Arthurian characters to life, depicting King Arthur, Lancelot, and Guinevere in their dramatic adventures.

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