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Mildred Doubles Down-On the Edge of a Storm

Mildred Doubles Down-On the Edge of a Storm
  • Author(s): Toni Kief
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Some bonds aren’t supposed to end. Janice was the glue that held them together, and now she is gone. Mildred Petrie scores a luxury suite on a Caribbean cruise and the surviving threesome gathers to scatter the ashes and...

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce
  • Author(s): James M Cain
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she...

Milk Blood Heat

Milk Blood Heat
  • Author(s): Dantiel W Moniz
  • Location(s): Malanje Province, World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother...

Milk Fed

Milk Fed
  • Author(s): Melissa Broder
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By...

Milkman

Milkman
  • Author(s): Anna Burns
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980's

Milkman is extraordinary. I’ve been reading passages aloud for the pleasure of hearing it. It’s frightening, hilarious, wily and joyous all at the same time.’ – Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies In this unnamed city, to be...

Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish

Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish
  • Author(s): Tori Whitaker
  • Location(s): Cincinnati
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three generations of women—and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart. Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane,...

Million Dollar Red

Million Dollar Red
  • Author(s): Gleah Powers
  • Location(s): Arizona, California, Florida, Montana, New York State
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s, 1980s

Gleah Powers began her adult life at age 14, not as a runaway, but as a “send away” in 1962. Known as Linda in those days, her strong-willed grandmother put her on a greyhound bus to travel alone, cross-country,...

Million Star Hotel

Million Star Hotel
  • Author(s): Rana Azzoubi
  • Location(s): Southern Jordan, Wadi Rum
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Million Star Hotel, the delightful sequel to Through a Mud Wall, by Rana Azzoubi, is a charming children’s book that explores the ways in which friendship can bridge all differences. Nadia, a young Jordanian girl, is excited to have...

Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika

Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
  • Author(s): Giles Foden
  • Location(s): Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): First World War

When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is water to float a ship—even if the body of water in question is a remote African lake and the enemy...

Mimi’s Ghost

Mimi’s Ghost
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Morris Duckworth can’t get over Mimi. But maybe he should have thought of that before he murdered her and married her sister. Now Mimi’s back as a ghost, and she seems to be suggesting the way to redemption for...

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