Titles starting with M from Top Shelf Books.com

Thomas M. Disch takes on the medical world in this thriller about a virus run rampant and a boy who acquires a caduceus with magic healing powers.

Fairy magic invades an African-American neighborhood of Los Angeles in this urban fantasy by the author of the science fiction classic ENDER'S GAME and the Alvin Maker historical fantasy series. Byron Williams arrives home to find his previously-not-pregnant wife Nadine rapidly giving birth to a baby who appears to be stillborn. A homeless man who is clearly gifted with powers beyond the ordinary takes the very much alive baby away, leaving the infant to be discovered by a neighbor boy. As the miraculous child--named Mack Street by his foster mother, a local nurse--grows up, it becomes clear that he has a dangerously strange and magical destiny. Unless Mack can discover the truth about his origin and purpose, he risks hurting everyone he loves.

Science fiction author John Varley explores environmentalism and the nature of fate in this standalone novel. Quirky industrialist Howard Christian has so much money that he constantly strives to discover new ways to spend it. His new obsession is cloning a woolly mammoth. But when his research team successfully digs up a frozen mammoth carcass in Canada, lying next to it is the 12,000-year-old frozen corpse of a man--wearing a watch. Now Christian has a new obsession: time travel.

Florida judge "Maximum" Bob Gibbs, has made a career out of over-sentencing felons and chasing women. Now he's making his life even crazier with a half-cocked scheme to rid himself of his loopy wife. And why do there seem to be an inordinate number of bullets flying in his direction? Could it be that one of the criminals he put away has returned for vengeance?

Spencer Gill must once again venture into the House of Doors to do battle with an alien intelligence. A faction from the alien world, unsatisfied with leaving humans alone, has decided to use Earth as a breeding ground. This time, though, Spencer and his companions' worst enemy will be their own fears.

A biographical/historical novel that sheds imaginative new light on Leonardo da Vinci.

The third volume in the adventures of 29th-century special agent Giraut Leones. Betrayed by his friend and superior, resulting in the destruction of a planet and the loss of his wife, Leone swears off working for any organization, preferring the respite offered in the hedonistic confines of Hedonia. But Earth's fate soon hangs in the balance as the advanced civilization, Thousand Cultures, threatens to secede from the Council of Humanity if a black market of prerecorded copies of individual personalities--a market cavalierly treated by the residents of Earth--isn't destroyed.