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Murder on K Street_ A Capital C - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyTruman's 23rd Capital Crimes novel (after 2006's Murder at the Opera) offers little suspense and even less insight into the wheelings and dealings of contempo... -
Murder at Union Station - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyThe Truman franchise chugs along with little sign of losing steam in the 20th entry (after 2002's Murder at Ford's Theatre) in this reliably entertaining ser.... -
Murder at Ford's Theatre - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyThe spirit of Chandra Levy hovers over Truman's latest Washington, D.C., mystery (Murder on the Potomac, etc.), which, despite a sometimes confusing plot and ... -
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this is, however, at all co... -
Mermaid_ A Twist on the Classic - Carolyn Turgeon
From Publishers WeeklyIn Turgeon's surprisingly dark retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, two women pine for the affections of a prince: mermaid Lenia, who pu... -
Matchless_ A Christmas Story - Gregory Maguire
SUMMARY: Every year, NPR asks a writer to compose an original story with a Christmas theme. In 2008, Gregory Maguire reinvented the Hans Christian Andersen classic "The Little Matc... -
Marrying Mozart - Stephanie Cowell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Amadeus* meets *Little Women* in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sis... -
Marcel Proust_ A Life - Edmund White
Amazon.com ReviewMarcel Proust documented his existence so lavishly--albeit in fictional form--that many of his biographers have functioned as little more than code-breakers, dogge... -
Lying with the Dead - Michael Mewshaw
SUMMARY: In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest hu... -
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
SUMMARY: The lives and adventures of the four March sisters--Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy--are set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century New England while their father is off fighti...