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• Maggie’s Wars by Phil Pisani — A novel about Mag­gie Hogan is a strong woman, an ace report who just wants to be treated fairly. She fights, and sleeps, her way through the bat­tle­fields, the Nurem­burg tri­als and the after­math of the World War II, includ­ing the cold war.

• Mag­nif­i­cent Des­o­la­tion by Buzz Aldrin — An autobiog­ra­phy of the famous astronaut.

• Mali­nalli of the Fifth Sun by Helen Gor­don Heights­man - A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion novel tak­ing place in South Amer­ica dur­ing Hernán Cortés’ time focus­ing on native woman Mali­nalli who was an impor­tant per­son in Cortés’ entourage who have been vil­i­fied through­out the ages.

• Man At a Machine by Stef Wertheimer — An autobiog­ra­phy of the Israeli indus­tri­al­ist and statesman.

• The Man in the Pic­ture by Susan Hill (Guest Review) — A Gothic tale of a tragic tale of unruly pas­sions, of loss and of the power of suggestion.

• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Alli­son Hoover Bartlett — A non-fiction story about a rare book thief.  If you like books about books — this one is for you.

• March Vio­lets by Philip Kerr — The first in a series of noir nov­els about Bernie Gun­ther, an ex-policeman who turned pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor. March vio­lets refers to Ger­mans who went along with the Nazi vio­lence mindlessly.

• The March­ing Sea­son by Daniel Silva — The fic­tional sequel to “The Mark of the Assas­sin”. The phrase “March­ing Sea­son” comes from the parades held in North­ern Ire­land every year.

• The Mark of the Assas­sin by Daniel Silva - A fast paced fic­tional mys­tery about CIA agent Michael Osbourne. The story takes place mainly in the United States & Eng­land and involves sev­eral con­tem­po­rary themes.

• The Mar­velous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum- Set in the fic­tional land of Oz, the book how­ever is not about Dorothy but about a boy named Tip.

• Masaryk Sta­tion by David Down­ing- John Rus­sell is an Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist/spy liv­ing in Berlin after World War II, is plan­ning one final job which will cement the finan­cial secu­rity and well being of his fam­ily before he retires.

• May Bird and the Ever After by Jodi Lynn Ander­son- A young adult (YA) novel about a lonely teen named May Bird who falls into the lake and finds her­self in the after world with ghouls, ghosts and monsters.

• Maya's Note­book by Isabel Allende- A fic­tional novel and a com­ing of age story, told in the form of a jour­nal by a young woman sent to an island off the coast of Chile to hid from the FBI, Inter­pol, Las Vegas PD and gangsters.

• Me, You by Erri De Luca — A fic­tional com­ing of age story of a boy at the end of World War II. The book was pre­vi­ously released as Sea of Mem­ory.

• The Mem­o­rist by M.J. Rose — The sec­ond in "The Rein­car­na­tion­ist" series deal­ing with a magic flute which helps peo­ple remem­ber past lives.

• Mem­ory of Flames by Armand Cabas­son — The novel cen­ters on Mar­gont being a dou­ble agent sent by Joseph to infil­trate a group try­ing to restore the monar­chy to France. The dou­ble agent sce­nario allows the author to show more of the dis­ar­ray which Paris is in fol­low­ing its occu­pa­tion and allows the author to travel around the town at night, help­ing the con­spir­acy story-line.

• The Mes­senger by Daniel Silva –The Sixth book in the Gabriel Allon series which takes our hero across the globe foil­ing al Qaeda plans to destroy the Vatican.

• The Meta­mor­pho­sis by Franz Kafka — This is the story of Gre­gor Samsa who wakes up one morn­ing and dis­cov­ered he has turned into a giant bug. A short, clas­sic story but deep with many themes con­de­scend in a short space and between the lines.

• Michael Dou­glas by Marc Eliot — One of the few second-generation kids to grow up and become a movie star, Michael Dou­glas has man­aged to emerge from the long shadow of his father. The strug­gle to become his own man in an unfor­giv­ing envi­ron­ment is only a part of this biography.

• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Pecu­liar Chil­dren by Ran­som Riggs- A fic­tional YA book set in two time­lines pep­pered with vin­tage phở­tographs which help it achieve a chill­ing effect.

• The Miss­ing File by D.A. Mis­hani- A mys­tery novel tak­ing place in Holon, Israel. The book has been trans­lated from Hebrew and is one of the few police mys­ter­ies / pro­ce­dural writ­ten in Israel.

• Mis­sion to Mach 2 by Earl Haney and Lee Court­nage — Mr. Haney’s mem­oir about his mil­i­tary career which focuses on Haney's fas­ci­nat­ing Air-Force career.

• The Mir­rored World by Debra Dean — A fic­tional account of the Russ­ian St. Xenia told through the eyes of her cousin dur­ing the late 18th — early 19th Cen­tury in St. Petersburg.

• Moon­walk­ing with Ein­stein by Joshua Foer — A  mem­oir of the author’s attempt to win the U.S. mem­ory championship.

• A More Per­fect Heaven by Dava Sobel- Part fic­tion, part non-fiction about Nico­laus Coper­ni­cus and his stu­dent Ger­man math­e­mati­cian Georg Joachim Rheticus.

• Mor­gan Kane: With­out Mercy by Louis Mas­ter­son- The first book in this West­ern series which intro­duces the reader to Mor­gan Kane, Texas Ranger, an old world cow­boy with the ethics and moral­ity of a new world superhero.

• Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva –The eighth book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon and his new wife, Chiara, are on their hon­ey­moon in Umbria, Italy. But Gabriel never stops work­ing and is restor­ing a paint­ing for the Vat­i­can. A Russ­ian news­pa­per reporter con­tacts the Israeli embassy in Rome request­ing a meet­ing with Allon who reluc­tantly agrees.

• The Mossad: Great Oper­a­tions by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nis­sim Mishal –A non-fiction book by Israeli jour­nal­ists recount­ing some of the great suc­cesses and fail­ures of the secret Israeli agency.

• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson — A non-fiction book for any per­son who ever had to learn to idio­syn­crasies of the lan­guage, this book will pro­vide a fas­ci­nat­ing overview of the strange rules and nuances of Eng­lish.

• The Most Dan­ger­ous Place: Pakistan’s Law­less Fron­tier by Imtiaz Gul — Short but packed non-fiction book about del­i­cate polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion in Pakistan.

• Mr. Churchill's Sec­re­tary by Susan Elia Mac­Neal -  A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in the early days of World War II about an Amer­i­can woman, a bril­liant math­e­mati­cian, of British ori­gin in Lon­don work­ing at 10 Down­ing Street.

• The Music of James Bond by Jon Burlingame -  A non-fiction book about the sound­tracks of one of the most suc­cess­ful film fran­chises in the world.

• My Ánto­nia by Willa Cather -  A 1918 novel which is con­sid­ered the last in the “Prairie Tril­ogy” fol­low­ing O Pio­neers! and The Song of the Lark. This book is con­sid­ered one of the great­est nov­els writ­ten by an American.

• My Life in Pol­i­tics by Jacques Chirac — A polit­i­cal biog­ra­phy of the famed French politi­cian and leader.

• My Mother’s Secret : Based on a True Holo­caust Story by J.L. Wit­t­er­ick — A fic­tion­al­ized account of an actual woman who hid 15 Jews (and a Ger­man sol­dier) in her small house, located in a small Pol­ish town, dur­ing the Nazi inva­sion of World War II.

• My Pearl Har­bor Scrap­book 1941 by Bess Taub­man & Ernest Arroyo — A non-fiction book which has the look and feel of a post WWII scrap­book and tells the story of the attack on Pearl Har­bor and its aftermath.

• Mys­tery Girl by David Gor­don — A men’s novel full of self doubt, awk­ward­ness, porn, manly movie talk and Jackie Chan. Sam Korn­berg lives in L.A., his mar­riage is falling apart and it looks like he'll never be the nov­el­ist he dreamed of being. Look­ing for any job he might be qual­ify for , Sam gets a job as an assis­tant (he spe­cial­izes in being an "assis­tant") detec­tive to Solar Lonsky.

• Mys­tery Train by Greil Mar­cus (Guest Review) — The essen­tial study of the quin­tes­sen­tial Amer­i­can art form. First pub­lished in 1975, Greil Mar­cus' Mys­tery Train remains a bench­mark study of rock 'n' roll and a clas­sic in the field of music criticism.

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• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts- An inter­est­ing and thought pro­vok­ing biog­ra­phy of this unique man. Mr. Roberts has got­ten a hold of more than 33,000 pri­vate let­ters which were recently released and, as any fresh mate­r­ial does, caused his­to­ri­ans to ana­lyze and reflect upon the subject.

• The Nazi and the Psy­chi­a­trist: Her­mann Göring, Dr. Dou­glas M. Kel­ley, and a Fatal Meet­ing of Minds at the End of WWII by Jack El-Hai - A non-fiction book about the doc­tor and his inter­ac­tion with the war crim­i­nals dur­ing the Nurem­berg tri­als and his life afterwards.

• Neme­sis by Jo Nesbø- Inspec­tor Harry Hole wakes up from a drunken stu­por after vis­it­ing an old flame with a huge mem­ory gap. Harry comes to find out that his girl­friend is dead, but he is busy inves­ti­gat­ing a vio­lent bank rob­bery which turned into a homicide.

• The New Repub­lic by Lionel Shriver- A novel about the nature of jour­nal­ism where jour­nal­ists manip­u­late the news to gain headlines.

• The New­ly­weds by Nell Freuden­berger- A fic­tional book which deals with online mar­riages of US cit­i­zens to mail order brides from Bangladesh.

• Next to Love by Ellen Feld­man - A fic­tional book which fol­lows three child­hood friends before, dur­ing and after World War II.

• The Night Ranger by Alex Beren­son- The sev­enth book in the fic­tional series satr­ring John Welles. This time Welles trav­els to East Africa, as a per­sonal favor, to track four kid­naped Americans.

• Nitt Witt Hill by Sebas­t­ian Gib­son- A polit­i­cal satire which brings for­ward the absur­di­ties of today’s politics.

• No Easy Day: The First­hand Account of the Mis­sion That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen- A non­fic­tion account from one of the man in the Navy SEALs unit who were tasked with raid­ing the com­pound in which it was thought that Usama Bin Laden is hiding.

• No Less Than Vic­tory: A Novel of World War II by Jeff Shaara- The third book in the tril­ogy. The book begins after the Nor­mandy inva­sion. The allied gen­er­als are con­fi­dent that the war will be over in a few weeks, but Hitler is not so sure.

• No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel  —  A fic­tional book tak­ing place dur­ing World War II fol­low­ing a small group of Jew­ish vil­lagers who lives in a town on a river bank.

• Nor­mandy: A Graphic His­tory of D-Day by Wayne Vansant- The graphic novel con­nects to the reader more than a mere his­tory book. The excel­lent art draws atten­tion to his­tor­i­cal details in vivid details and colors.

• Not Famous Any­more by Michael Loyd Gray — A a fic­tional book which addresses the price of fame fol­low­ing a famous action her on his jour­ney back to his home­town and out of the spotlight.

• Nor­we­gian Wood by Haruki Murakami  —  A fic­tional 1987 novel set in 1960s Tokyo, Japan where a man rem­i­nisces about his col­lege days, love lost and life.

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• O Pio­neers! by Willa Cather — Writ­ten in 1913 and is con­sid­ered the first novel of the Great Plains tril­ogy. Fol­low­ing the Bergsons who immi­grated from Switzer­land to Hanover, Nebraska at the turn of the 20th Century.

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman — A man returns to his child­hood home in Sus­sex, Eng­land. The man finds him­self in a farm which is down the road from where he lived. As the man sits by the pond, he starts remem­ber­ing events of bygone years, a sui­cide, a stolen car and dark­ness unleashed.

• Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman — an award win­ning fic­tional YA book inspired by Norse Mythology.

• On China by Henry Kissinger — A non-fiction book in which the famous states­man recounts and advises on the future of Chi­nese diplo­macy with the west.

• On Her Majesty's Secret Ser­vice by Ian Flem­ing — A top notch James Bond thriller is the sec­ond of what has become the "Blofeld Tril­ogy", pre­ceded by Thun­der­ball and con­cluded with You Only Live Twice (The Spy Who Loved Me was writ­ten in between but is not included in the trilogy).

• The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by RJ Smith — A biog­ra­phy of the God­fa­ther of Soul from his child­hood in Augusta, GA to his death.

• One Night in Win­ter by Simon Sebag Mon­te­fiore — A a grip­ping, intel­li­gent novel about a bunch of upper class kids in Stalin's Rus­sia after World War II who were arrested for treason.

• Only One Life by Sara Blædel — An intel­li­gent mys­tery set in Den­mark which brings up ques­tions, such as honor killing, using mur­der as a device. This is the sec­ond book trans­lated into Eng­lish in the series fea­tur­ing Detec­tive Louise Rick.

• One Hun­dred Years of Soli­tude by Gabriel Gar­cia Márquez (Guest Review) –The novel fol­lows the his­tory of Jose Arca­dio Buen­dia, his wife Ursula, and their prog­eny over the course of about a hun­dred years in Macondo, Columbia.

• The Orchardist by Amanda Chopin — A novel tak­ing place in Wash­ing­ton State at the early part of the 20th Cen­tury about an orchardist who takes in two preg­nant and abused teenagers.

• The Oster­man Week­end by Robert Lud­lum — The host of an inves­tiga­tive news show, John Tan­ner, is told by an agent of the CIA and his friends who are invited to a week­end in the coun­try are plot­ting a con­spir­acy to threaten national secu­rity. The plan is called Omega.

• Out of the Class­room Lessons in Suc­cess: How to Pros­per With­out Being at the Top of The Class by Cyn­thia Kocial­ski — A non-fiction busi­ness book in which the author talks gives some advice and obser­va­tions about suc­cess. This is a short book, writ­ten in per­sonal and infor­mal style.

• Out­wit­ting His­tory: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of a Man Who Res­cued a Mil­lion Yid­dish Books by Aaron Lan­sky — A non-fiction book which tells the story of a grad­u­ate stu­dent try­ing to res­cue Yid­dish books from elim­i­na­tion, and all the char­ac­ters he meets along the way.

• Ordi­nary Thun­der­storms by William Boyd — A fic­tional book with many themes tak­ing place in Lon­don and fol­lows a man whose life turned upside down.

• Out­law Pla­toon by Sean Par­nell & John Brun­ing — A non-fiction book about Mr. Parnell’s expe­ri­ence as a pla­toon leader (nick­named Out­law Pla­toon) for the U.S. Army Air­borne Ranger in Afghanistan.

• Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum — The third story in the Oz series, finds Dorothy and her friends try­ing to save the royal fam­ily of the Land of Ev.

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• Pain, Par­ties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Sum­mer 1953 by Eliz­a­beth Winder — A non-fiction book which paints a por­trait of Ms. Plath dur­ing a stress­ful, event­ful and per­sonal emo­tional sum­mer of her life.

• The Painted Dark­ness by Brian James Free­man — A very imag­i­na­tive story about a child with over­ac­tive imagination.

• Pandora's Grave by Steven Eng­land — a fic­tional counter-terrorism book set mostly in the US and Mid­dle East, a fast thrill ride.

• Panop­ti­con by David Bajo — Three jour­nal­ists go on a last assign­ment, dis­cov­er­ing that they are unknow­ingly star­ring in a movie taken from hid­den secu­rity cameras.

• Peace in the Mak­ing edited by Harry Hur­witz and Yis­rael Medad -  The com­plete cor­re­spon­dence between the Israeli prime min­is­ter Men­achem Begin and the Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Anwar Sadat dur­ing the his­toric peace mak­ing efforts.

• Pearl in the Sand by Tessa Afshar — Bib­li­cal fic­tion story of Rahab, one of the most famous and con­tro­ver­sial fig­ures in the Jew­ish bible.

• Pega­sus Falling : Cypress Branches tril­ogy (Vol­ume 1) by William E. Thomas — A semi-autobiographical novel of the author who served as a British para­trooper in World War II. The book cen­ters around a British Cap­tain who was a POW in a con­cen­tra­tion camp and upon lib­er­a­tion served in Palestine.

• Pep­per: A His­tory of the World’s Most Influ­en­tial Spice by Mar­jorie Shaf­fer — A non-fiction book trac­ing his­tory through the trade of black pepper.

• The Per­fect Nazi by Mar­tin David­son — A non-fiction book which fol­lows the authors research about his grand­fa­ther, an SS officer.

• Perla by Car­olina de Rober­tis — A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about Argentina’s Dirty War..

• The Per­sonal His­tory of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weis­gar­ber — An award-winning fic­tional book tak­ing place in the Bad­lands of South Dakota, fol­low­ing an African-American pioneer.

• Pet­ro­grad by Philip Gelatt (art by Tyler Crook)- A graphic novel about an inter­na­tional con­spir­acy behind the mur­der of Gre­gorii Rasputin.

• The Pic­ture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde — The clas­sic book in which Dorian Gray is a young man who is hand­some and inno­cent. When an artist paints a por­trait of Gray, Dorian makes a wish to always look like the portrait.

• The Pil­lars of the Earth by Ken Fol­let — A novel set in Kings­bridge, Eng­land and mainly tells about the build­ing of the cathe­dral in town. The novel was pub­lished in 1989 to excel­lent reviews and has become widely read despite its length, listed on the BBC’s Big Read (#33) and selected for the Oprah Book Club.

• Play­ing For Pizza by John Grisham — A fic­tional book mostly set in Italy. This fish-out-of-water story is per­fect for the reader/sport lover and could be read in one sitting.

• The Plot Against Amer­ica by Philip Roth — An alter­na­tive his­tory novel which asks an ques­tion: what if Amer­ica had elected a fas­cist gov­ern­ment before World War II?

• The Pol­ski Affair by Leon H. Gildin- The award win­ning book about a very weird and bizarre his­tor­i­cal occur­rence dur­ing World War II.

• Pox: An Amer­i­can His­tory by Michael Will­rich - A non-fiction book which traces how the small­pox vac­cine was dis­trib­uted dur­ing major out­breaks. Some of the vac­cines were forced onto peo­ple which caused an out­rage and the ques­tion made it all the way to the Supreme Court.

• Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr — A fic­tional novel mostly set in Prague where Berlin detec­tive Gun­ther is asked to solve a locked-room mur­der in a cas­tle full of Nazis. The book is 8th novel star­ring Bernie Gunther.

• Prague Win­ter: : A Per­sonal Story of Remem­brance and War, 1937–1948 by Madeleine Albright — A mem­oir by the famed Sec­re­tary of State about her child­hood and a first-class les­son in his­tory before, dur­ing and after World War II from per­spec­tive seen thor­ough Czecho­slo­va­kian eyes.

• Pri­macy by J.E. Fish­man — A fic­tional book which tries to ask ques­tions about ani­mal test­ing and what would hap­pen if a chimp decided to start talk­ing. Not what you expect.

• Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva –The fifth book in the Gabriel Allon series. Unlike the pre­vi­ous books, this one takes place mostly in Israel as oppose to Europe.

• Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia Mac­Neal - The sec­ond book in the author’s fic­tional series about Mag­gie Hope, this time Mag­gie is tasked with keep­ing an eye on the young Princess Eliz­a­beth dur­ing World War II.