Titles starting with M from E. Fay Shipman

Commercial photographer Maggie Holloway attends a party and is, by chance, reunited with Nuala, the stepmother she has not seen since childhood. Maggie accepts Nuala's invitation to visit her in Rhode Island, but when Maggie arrives, Nuala is dead--apparently the victim of a random break-in. To her surprise, Maggie learns that Nuala's house is bequeathed to her, the only stipulation being that she visit Nuala's friend Gerda. When Maggie fulfills this request, she discovers that Gerda is a resident of a nearby nursing home--a home with an alarmingly high death rate of seemingly healthy patients.

The Mage Guardians barely survived the war, and now they must defend the society from an assault by the Malerissi. The battle is emotional as well as tactical as the Malerissi are assisted by one of the Mage Guardian's very own sisters.

When her best friend, a controversial performance artist, dies in a fall from an eighth-floor window, a young black woman tries to put together the pieces of her friend's chaotic life, and to discover whether her death was a suicide or a murder.

Ayla meets a new clan: the mammoth hunters. During her stay with them, Ayla and her lover, Jondar, encounter a variety of crises. The third novel in Jean M. Auel's spectacularly successful Earth's Children series.

This book contains two long stories, one a collaboration between Pournelle and Stirling and the other by Anderson, both set in Niven's complex Known Space series.

This is the third book in David Pelzer's touching autobiographical trilogy about surviving an abusive childhood.