Love, Theoretically
Adjunct physicist Elsie Hannaway fake-dates for rent money until Jack Smith, an MIT experimentalist, stands between her and her dream job.
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Macbeth
Macbeth hears witches hail him king and murders Duncan with Lady Macbeth pushing him on.
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Madame Bovary
Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary for romance, then seeks lovers and luxury until debts ruin them both.
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Malibu Rising
The Riva siblings throw their famous August 1983 Malibu party as old family wounds surface, in Taylor Jenkins Reid's sunlit story of fame, surf, and starting…
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Man's Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it.
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Mansfield Park
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
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Marked
Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledgling vampyre and sent to Tulsa's House of Night, where Goddess-gifted powers, new friends, and a corrupt queen bee test her…
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Marley & Me
A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.
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Matched
Cassia matched to Xander sees Ky's face flash and starts to doubt.
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Matilda
Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
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Maybe in Another Life
One midnight ride splits Hannah Martin's life in two, and Reid follows both versions to see what love and choice decide.
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