Titles starting with M from Scholar and Poet Books

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.

A second edition of a book first published in 1987, this anthology makes the case for the lyric intensity of the American South, collecting the work of such well-known poets as Charles Wright, T. R. Hummer, Pattiann Rogers, Donald Justice, Charlie Smith, and James Dickey, among others. 66 poets are included in all, 12 of whom are new to this edition.

With one of the most well known and lovely opening sentences in all of children's literature ("In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines"), MADELINE is an unforgettable picture book about a truly unforgettable character. This story, the first in a series of books about Madeline, introduces readers to life at the French boarding school run by a kindly nun named Miss Clavel. Although she is dedicated to all her students, Miss Clavel must pay special attention to the activities of her youngest charge, a feisty girl named Madeline. Here Madeline faces an emergency visit to the hospital to have her appendix removed. Color paintings, which depict such Parisian landmarks as the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and the Luxembourg Gardens, accompany the rhyming text. MADELINE is a 1940 Caldecott Honor Book.

Madeline manages to make Christmas merry, even though everyone else is sick in bed.

When the new supermarket opens up, Arly must solve the ipecac poisonings of the grand opening revelers and also the more deadly poisoning of a grandmother.

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.