Mercies in Disguise
: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
by Gina Kolata
Hardcover: Mar 2017
Paperback: Apr 2018
The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested--at least, not now. But she had to find out.
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A ...
A Mercy
: A Novel
by Toni Morrison
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: Aug 2009
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prizewinning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
The Mermaid Chair
: A Novel
by Sue Monk Kidd
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: Mar 2006
Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists.
Merrow
by Ananda Braxton-Smith
Hardcover: Nov 2016
In this breathless and beautifully crafted tale, twelve-year-old Neen Marrey must separate town gossip from town lore to learn the truth about her mother - and herself.
Message In A Bottle
by Nicholas Sparks
Hardcover: Apr 1998
Paperback: Jan 1999
Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love.
Metropolis
: A Novel
by Elizabeth Gaffney
Hardcover: Mar 2005
Paperback: Feb 2006
Captures the splendor and violence of New York in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: Sep 2003
To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
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