My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead
: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: Jan 2009
"Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. Let everybody else suffer." Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead.
My Monticello
: Fiction
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Hardcover: Oct 2021
Paperback: Oct 2022
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her ...
My Name Is Leon
by Kit De Waal
Hardcover: Jul 2016
Paperback: Jul 2017
For fans of The Language of Flowers, a sparkling, big-hearted, page-turning debut set in the 1970s about a young black boy's quest to reunite with his beloved white half-brother after they are separated in foster care.
My Name Is Lucy Barton
: Amgash Series #1
by Elizabeth Strout
Hardcover: Jan 2016
Paperback: Oct 2016
The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged daughter by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.
"Samuel's endearing, immersive narration makes the novel a fascinating and unforgettable account of a brutal and shameful chapter in America's history." - Kirkus
The winner of a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and countless other awards has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will love, and never forget.
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