Titles starting with M from Symposia Bookstore

Dividing good old macaroni and cheese into categories--traditional, international, and "today"--Joan Schwartz provides 52 recipes for all tastes--as long as they combine some kind of macaroni with some kind of cheese. Recipes include Italian (Farfalle al Quattro Formaggi) and Greek (Pastitsio), Baked Conchiglie with Roasted-Garlic-Cheese Sauce from Bobby Flay, and Green Chile Mac and Cheese.

A small European village tucked into a black leather handbag, a convenience store with pajama-clad clerks and zombie customers, the messy divorce of a living man and a dead woman, and a rural house haunted by rabbits are some of the many sideslips away from the mundane in Kelly Link's critically acclaimed second collection of short fiction. Each story is paired with a quirky, delicately shaded black-and-white illustration by Shelley Jackson.

Searching for a stable planet, an alien arrives on Earth in a badly damaged spaceship. Using his advanced knowledge of science, he sets himself up as the head of a corporation with the intention of privately building a spaceship with which to ferry his people from their dead world to Earth. As he struggles to understand human nature and complete his task, he runs afoul of human greed, corruption, and vice, and becomes embroiled in the decadence and wastefulness of a society bent on self-destuction. A classic novel of science fiction by the author of THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE HUSTLER.

In this candid sports memoir, NBA star John Amaechi, who grew up in England, tells of his collegiate and professional career in basketball, sharing many colorful anecdotes of life on and off the court, including the revelation that he was a gay man in a profession that was not ready to accept him. John Amaechi also writes of life after basketball, sharing his life as a broadcaster and businessman back in his home country.

A giant companion to the four-hour Ken Burns special on PBS, about the life and times and literature of America's beloved Mark Twain.