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M.C. Higgins, the Great

M.C. Higgins, the Great
  • Author(s): Virginia Hamilton
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah’s Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hills and shady valleys. But behind him lie the wounds of strip mining, including a mountain of...

Mac and His Problem

Mac and His Problem
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner, a novice, an apprentice – delighted by the themes of repetition and...

Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
  • Author(s): Jean Hatzfeld
  • Location(s): Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to...

Machines Like Me

Machines Like Me
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines...

Mad About the Marquess

Mad About the Marquess
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Essex
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Georgian (18th century)

Lady Quince Winthrop has been robbing from society’s rich and giving to Edinburgh’s poor for years. But everything changes the day she can’t resist the temptation to steal from the Marquess of Cairn. Alasdair, Marquess of Cairn, has come...

Mad Honey

Mad Honey
  • Author(s): Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jodi Picoult
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school,...

Mad Nomad

Mad Nomad
  • Author(s): Eric Jay Sonnenschein
  • Location(s): Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mad Nomad is a novel about the Peace Corps in North Africa that blends adventure, comedy and romance. The setting is Tunisia, a Muslim country tucked between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert, in the period after Vietnam...

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
  • Author(s): Samira Ahmed
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Present and 19th century

It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life – but even in the City of Lights she can’t stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago....

Mad, Bad and Dead

Mad, Bad and Dead
  • Author(s): Sherryl Clark
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme’s troubles aren’t over yet… Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub along with her new childcare responsibilities for her orphaned niece, Judi...

Madam

Madam
  • Author(s): Cari Lynn, Kellie Martin
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900

When vice had a legal home and jazz was being born–the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a meager living as an “alley whore.” That all changes when bible-thumping Alderman Sidney Story...

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