Titles starting with M from Best Bookshelf

Dot and Dash, as they are known, are a famous husband and wife team who tour the talk-show circuit as UFO fanatics. When they retreat to an abandoned church topped by a radar dish to await their hour of salvation, or doom, they soon find themselves the unwilling victims of their own hype, surrounded by groupies who are convinced they are descendents of aliens from the galaxy M31. This extended family then hits the road for a violent, hallucinogenic trip toward the last apparition, or the final truth.

The great Sanskrit epic poem known as the "Mahabharata" is comprised of 18 books containing 100,000 verses. With elements of mythology, folklore, and religious philosophy, this classic text of Hinduism contains the "Bhagavad-Gita", the most beloved and widely read work in India's literary canon. Its principle plot concerns the descendants of Bharata and their struggle for power.

Often overlooked in history books, and associated with all sorts of controversy and bad deeds, Philippe, the Duke of Orléans (1674-1723), ruled over a Regency Council under the terms of Louis XIV's will. The cousin of King Louis XV, Philippe stepped down from his post when his cousin was old enough to take the throne. This has been called the definitive biography. With color illustrations.

Lyon analyzes manifestoes in both formal and historical terms, arguing that the manifesto was an important development of modern political life, that it helped to create the modern political subject, and that it helped to define artistic modernism.

Based on an actual event, the Wilmington race riot of 1898, Chesnutt's novel is an early accusation of racism and white betrayal, by one of the great African-American writers of the 19th century.