Titles starting with M from Joe Staats, Bookseller

"M" is for the Malek brothers. The four men are poised to inherit the fortune amassed by their parents...but one brother has been missing for 18 years. That's where Kinsey Millhone steps in. The family hires her to locate the missing brother, and in the process, Millhone enters a forbidding web of family secrets and resentments. She begins to suspect that the desire for the brother's return is not driven by love, but by malice.

A novel of suspense by the former Governor of Massachusetts. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

In this memoir, the former Secretary of State during the Clinton administration provides her own account of her life and career, beginning with her birth in Czechoslovakia and her childhood in London and then Colorado. Albright reviews the highs and lows and the major crises of her diplomatic experience, and reveals what it was like to deal one-to-one with major world leaders such as Putin, King Hussein, Netanyahu, Milosevic--and Bill Clinton. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

In this memoir, the former Secretary of State during the Clinton administration provides her own account of her life and career, beginning with her birth in Czechoslovakia and her childhood in London and then Colorado. Albright reviews the highs and lows and the major crises of her diplomatic experience, and reveals what it was like to deal one-to-one with major world leaders such as Putin, King Hussein, Netanyahu, Milosevic--and Bill Clinton. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

The story of Ned Conti's quest to turn a long-dead nun into Brooklyn's first saint, and to reclaim a woman who was the love of his life.

Andrew Morton's biography of one of the late 20th century's most popular and controversial female pop stars mines the reminiscences and revelatory anecdotes of the extensive range of friends and acquaintances Madonna has built up over three decades of dogged pursuit of fame and fortune. The road from a Bay City, Michigan, childhood to having one's bra auctioned for $20,000 at Sotheby's a couple of decades later is long and fraught with rumors of sex, drugs, vaulting ambition, and many other scandals, all of which are minutely examined by Morton, whose biography credits include those of Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky. Madonna's chief vice turns out to be an overwhelming hunger for success; she's preternaturally skilled at manipulation, both of her own talents and of those around her. Her relationships with men and women alike are explored, including her notorious liaison with comedian Sandra Bernhard and her stormy marriage to Sean Penn, as well as her short-lived affair with Warren Beatty and her second marriage to British film director Guy Ritchie. Featuring many rare early photographs of the embryonic superstar, MADONNA is a detailed and penetrating look behind the public persona of a fascinating, constantly self-reinventing woman.

In this scandalous biography of Madonna, celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen draws on a slew of secondhand sources to offer fans a broad view of the pop star's life. He begins with Madonna's paternal grandparents' immigration to the United States from Italy and ends with her commercial success in 1991.

As Alzheimer's insidiously corrodes Marina Buriakov's mind, she finds herself slipping out of the present and back to the days when as a young woman she lived with hundreds of other families in the basement of the Hermitage Museum during the siege of Leningrad. As the details of Marina's granddaughter's wedding fade, the famous paintings she once tried to protect from the Nazi bombs become increasingly vivid. Debra Dean's lyrical debut novel shimmers with fleeting and beautiful memories and powerfully portrays the emotional bonds forged by the Russian families living through the chaos of war.

Famed investigative reporter Bob Woodward looks for the reasons behind the economic boom that took place during the Clinton presidency. He weighs many factors, including Washington policy, technology, globalization, Wall Street--and finds the main factor to be the acumen of Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan. Woodward includes many behind-the-scenes accounts of decision-making and power plays. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

Police Chief Arly Hanks is the only one in Maggody who is wary of the new pawnshop owner, Kayla Smeltner. It doesn't seem to bother anyone else that she has a large array of guns in the store and does a brisk business with camouflage-wearing customers. When she invites them to a survivalist training camp, the townspeople of Maggody soon fear that they may be running for their lives.

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.