Titles starting with M from The Cracked Book, LLC

These four long narrative poems display a variety of styles and literary ironies to reveal how culture and tradition are fading in the world of the 21st century.

As head of his clan, Daniel MacGregor sets out once again to play Cupid, this time fixing up his three grandsons with women who he's sure will help continue the MacGregor lineage.

As head of his clan, Daniel MacGregor sets out once again to play Cupid, this time fixing up his three grandsons with women who he's sure will help continue the MacGregor lineage.

Bound into one volume, Nora Roberts presents two complete novels from her MacKade Brothers series: THE RETURN OF RAFE MACKADE and THE PRIDE OF JARED MACKADE.

Flaubert's portrait of an adulteress who seeks freedom from a prosaic, disappointing life and ultimately is destroyed by her selfishness was considered scandalous when it was published. Flaubert chose his subject to illustrate his belief that any aspect of life, however trivial or vulgar, could be a subject for literature, and could be raised to the status of art by the quality of the writing.

In a grim workhouse for indigent, unwed mothers, an Irish woman dreams of a better future for herself and her unborn child, and finds solidarity amongst the other women who work with her in a laundry run by nuns.

When romance writer Maggie Kelly decides to attend a romance writers conference, she is accompanied by Alexandre Blake, Viscount Saint Just, the Regency-era hero who's decided to leap off the pages of her novels and into her life. The conference is sheer chaos--and that's before two people are murdered.

Hans Castorp visits his tubercular cousin Joachim at a sanitarium in Switzerland. While there, he too is diagnosed with the disease, and his brief visit stretches to a stay of seven years. He leaves only when World War I is declared and he returns to Germany to fight. The novel is a classic Bildüngsroman: Hans evolves from a confused and directionless young bourgeois into an intellectual who understands the meaning of life and death.

The first book of the Recluce series introduces Lerris, a young man struggling to find his place in society and hone his magical abilities. Exiled from his island home until he can prove himself, Lerris wanders the wilds of a world torn between chaos and order as it strives to maintain a balance of the two.