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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990
A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Lisa Frazier Page
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2009
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Arshay Cooper
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, Peter C. Brown
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
William H. Mcraven
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Laurie Kaye Abraham
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993
Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Transl. Richard Seaver, Transl. Helen R. Lane, André Breton
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1924
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
Gail Bederman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
Man's Search for Meaning
Victor Frankl
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Brian Weiss
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Devah Pager
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
John Grogan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005