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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
A Mango-Shaped Space
Christopher Buehlman, Wendy Mass
Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2003
A Man Who Had No Eyes
MacKinlay Kantor, Madeline Martin
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1931
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare, Jen Lancaster
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Lisa Frazier Page
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2009
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Arshay Cooper
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
A Mother In Mannville
Ilon Wikland, Astrid Lindgren, Florence Lamborn, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1936
A Moveable Feast
Terry Goodkind, Ernest Hemingway
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964
A Murder Is Announced
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Agatha Christie, Sophie Aldred
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1950
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, Peter C. Brown
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Make Lemonade
Virginia Euwer Wolff, Adam Schiff
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 1993
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
William H. Mcraven, Sonja Yoerg
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Laurie Kaye Abraham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993
Manchild in the Promised Land
Dean Koontz, Claude Brown
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
J.A. Redmerski, James L. Swanson
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Transl. Richard Seaver, Transl. Helen R. Lane, André Breton
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
Gail Bederman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
Man of La Mancha
Douglas Preston, Dale Wasserman, Lincoln Child
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965
Man's Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Brian Weiss, Brandon Sanderson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988
Marianela
Pope John Paul II, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Benito Perez Galdos, Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1878
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
John Grogan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life
Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Tesh
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1848