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Browse fiction books.
Maas, James B., et al.: Power Sleep
MacCambridge, Michael: America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
MacCambridge, Michael: The Franchise
MacArthur, John R.: The Selling of "Free Trade": Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy
Macdonald, Dwight. Edited by Michael Wreszin. A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald
MacDonald, Michael Patrick: All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
MacDonogh, Katharine: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Macey, David: Frantz Fanon: A Biography
Macfarlane, Robert: Mountains of the Mind
Machtan, Lothar: The Hidden Hitler
Macintyre, Ben: The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
Macintyre, Ben: The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
Mack, Stan: Janet & Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss
Mackenzie, Angus: Secrets: The CIA's War at Home
Mackey, Chris and Greg Miller: The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda
MacMillan, Margaret: Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Maddox, John: What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race
Mahar, Maggie: Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982-1999
Mahler, Jonathan: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning
Mahler-Werfel, Alma. Selected by Antony Beaumont: Diaries 1898-1902
Mahoney, Rosemary: A Likely Story: One Summer With Lillian Hellman
Mahoney, Rosemary: The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
Maier, Charles: Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany
Maier, Karl: Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
Maier, Karl: This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria
Maier, Pauline: American Scripture
Maier, Thomas: Dr. Spock: An American Life
Mailer, Adele: The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer
Mailer, Norman: The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
Mailer, Norman: The Time of Our Time
Maines, Rachel P.: The Technology of Orgasm: ''Hysteria,'' the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Malcolm, Janet: The Crime of Sheila McGough
Malcolm, Janet: Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
Malcolm, Noel: Kosovo: A Short History
Malcomson, Scott L.: One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
Malia, Martin: Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
Malone, Michael S.: Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane
Manbeck, John B. (Consulting Editor). Introduction by Kenneth T. Jackson: The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
Manea, Norman: The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir
Mann, Charles C.: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Mann, James: About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton
Mann, Robert: A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam
Manning, Richard: One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot
Manrique, Jaime: Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me
Mansfield, Howard: The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age
Maraniss, David: The Clinton Enigma: A Four-and-a-Half-Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life
Maraniss, David: They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
Maraniss, David and Ellen Nakashima: The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore
Marchand, Roland: Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
Marciano, John Bemelmans: Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's Creator
Marcos, Subcomandante. Edited by Juana Ponce De León: Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
Marder, T. A.: Bernini and the Art of Architecture
Margolick, David: Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
Mariani, Paul: The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
Marks, Paula Mitchell: In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival
Markus, Julia: Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time
Markus, Julia: J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian
Marley, Rita with Hettie Jones: No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley
Marling, Karal Ann: Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Marlowe, Ann: How to Stop Time: Heroin From A to Z
Marnham, Patrick: Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: News of a Kidnapping
Marrs, Suzanne: Eudora Welty: A Biography
Marsden, George M.: Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Marshall, Ian: Passage East
Marshall, Ian: Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail
Martin, Gregory: Mountain City
Martin, Judith: Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried
Martin, Justin: Greenspan: The Man Behind Money
Martin, Peter: A Life of James Boswell
Martin, Steve: Pure Drivel
Martinez, Andrés: 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas
Martínez, Rubén: Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Marwick, Arthur: The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
Mashaw, Jerry L.: Greed, Chaos, and Governance
Mason, Bobbie Ann: Clear Springs: A Memoir
Massie, Robert K.: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: Dogs Never Lie About Love
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: The Emperor's Embrace: Reflections on Animal Families and Fatherhood
Masur, Louis P.: 1831: Year of Eclipse
Mathews, Jay: Class Struggle: What's Wrong (and Right) With America's Best Public High Schools
Matlock, Jack F. Jr.: Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
Matthiessen, Peter: The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes
Matthiessen, Peter: Tigers in the Snow
Mawer, Granville Allen: Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling
Maxwell-Stuart, P.G.: Chronicle of the Popes
May, Ernest R.: Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France
Mayer, Arno J.: The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions
Mayer, Henry: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
Mayer, Martin: The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets
Mayle, Peter: Encore Provence
Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World: A Memoir
Mazlish, Bruce: The Uncertain Sciences
Mazower, Mark: Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
Mazower, Mark: Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
McAlexander, Hubert H.: Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life
McCabe, John: Cagney
McCain, John with Mark Salter: Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir
McCarver, Tim with Danny Peary: Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans
McCauley, Michael P.: NPR: The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio
McCourt, Frank: Teacher Man: A Memoir
McCourt, Frank: 'Tis: A Memoir
McCourt, Malachy: A Monk Swimming
McCoy, Elin: The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste
McCrumb, Robert: My Year Off
McCullough, Colleen: Caesar: Let the Dice Fly
McCullough, David: John Adams
McDermott, James: Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer
McDonald, Brian: My Father's Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years in the NYPD
McDonough, Jimmy: Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
McDonough, Jimmy: Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
McDougal, Dennis: Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty
McDougal, Jim and Curtis Wilkie: Arkansas Mischief: The Birth of a National Scandal
McDougall, Walter A.: Promised Land, Crusader State
McElheny, Victor K.: Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land
McElrath, Joseph R. Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler: Frank Norris: A Life
McEnroe, John with James Kaplan: You Cannot Be Serious
McFeely, Williams S.: Proximity to Death
McGahern, John: All Will Be Well: A Memoir
McGilligan, Patrick: Fritz Lang
McGinn, Colin: The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
McGinn, Colin: The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World
McGinniss, Joe: The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
McGoogan, Ken: Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
McIntosh, Elizabeth P.: Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS
McKenzie, Steven L.: King David: A Biography
McKibben, Bill: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
McKibben, Bill: Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families
McKie, Robin and Christopher Stringer: African Exodus
McLellan, Diana: The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood
McLynn, Frank: Carl Gustav Jung
McLynn, Frank: Napoleon: A Biography
McManus, James: Physical: An American Checkup
McManus, James: Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
McMurry, Linda O.: To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells
McMurtry, Larry: Crazy Horse
McMurtry, Larry: Roads: Driving America's Great Highways
McNamara, Robert S., et al.: Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
McNamara, Robert S. and James G. Blight: Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century
McNamee, Thomas: The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone
McNeill, J. R.: Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
McNish, Jacquie and Sinclair Stewart: Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black
McPhee, John: Annals of the Former World
McPherson, James: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
McWhorter, John: Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority
McWhorter, John H.: Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
Mead, Walter Russell: Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
Meade, Marion: The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography
Medwick, Cathleen: Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul
Meeropol, Robert: An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey
Mehta, Gita: Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of India
Mehta, Suketu: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Mehta, Ved: Remembering Mr.Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing
Meier, Christian: Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
Meili, Trisha: I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility
Meisel, Perry: The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over From Romanticism to Rock and Roll
Meiselas, Susan: Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History
Mellow, James R.: Walker Evans
Melnick, Ralph: The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank
Melvern, Linda: A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide
Menand, Louis: The Metaphysical Club
Menchú, Rigoberta: Crossing Borders
Mendelsohn, Daniel: The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
Mendelson, Edward: Later Auden
Menzies, Gavin: 1421: The Year China Discovered America
Merrill, James. Edited by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser: Collected Prose
Merry, Robert W.: Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition
Meyers, Jeffrey: Bogart: A Life in Hollywood
Meyers, Jeffrey: Somerset Maugham: A Life
Mezlekia, Nega: Notes From the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
Michaels, Leonard: Time Out of Mind: The Diaries of Leonard Michaels, 1961-1995
Micklethwait, John and Adrian Wooldridge: A Future Perfect: The Essentials of Globalization
Middlebrook, Diane Wood: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Mier, Fray Servando Teresa de: The Memoirs of Fray Servando Teresa de Mier
Milbank, Dana: Smashmouth: Two Years in the Gutter With Al Gore and George W. Bush -- Notes From the 2000 Campaign Trail
Miles, Barry: The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963
Miles, Barry: Jack Kerouac King of the Beats
Miles, Barry: Zappa: A Biography
Miles, Hugh: Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the West
Miles, Jack: Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God
Milford, Nancy: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Miller, Alice: The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
Miller, Andrew: Oxygen
Miller, Anita: Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers
Miller, Anita, Jordan Miller and Sigalit Zetouni: Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician
Miller, Arthur. Edited by Steven R. Centola: Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000
Miller, Arthur I.: Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc
Miller, Arthur I.: Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
Miller, Dennis: Ranting Again
Miller, Geoffrey: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Miller, James: Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977
Miller, Jean Baker and Irene Pierce Stiver: The Healing Connection
Miller, John E.: Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend
Miller, John J. and Mark Molesky: Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship With France
Miller, Stephen G.: Ancient Greek Athletics
Miller, William Ian: The Anatomy of Disgust
Miller, William Lee: Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
Mills, C. Wright. (Edited by Kathryn Mills with Pamela Mills): C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings
Mills, Kay: Something Better for My Children: The History and People of Head Start
Milosz, Czeslaw: Milosz's A B C's
Milton, Giles: Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
Milton, Giles: The Riddle and the Knight
Milton, Pat: In the Blink of an Eye: The FBI Investigation of TWA Flight 800
Mingus, Sue Graham: Tonight at Noon: A Love Story
Minow, Martha: Not Only for Myself
Minutaglio, Bill: First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty
Mishra, Pankaj: An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World
Mitchell, Elizabeth: W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty
Mitchell, George J.: Making Peace
Mitchell, Greg: Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas--Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950
Mitchell, Joseph: My Ears Are Bent
Mitgang, Herbert: Once Upon a Time in New York: Jimmy Walker, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Last Great Battle of the Jazz Age
Mnookin, Seth: Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media
Moats, David: Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage
Moaveni, Azadeh: Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Modjeska, Drusilla: Stravinsky's Lunch
Moe, Richard and Carter Wilkie: Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
Moehringer, J. R.: The Tender Bar: A Memoir
Moin, Baqer: Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah
Molinari, Susan with Elinor Burkett: Representative Mom: Balancing Budgets, Bill, and Baby in the U.S. Congress
Mollenkamp, Carrick, Adam Levy, Joseph Menn and Jeffrey Rothfeder: The People vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took On the Cigarette Giants
Mondavi, Robert with Paul Chutkow: Harvests of Joy: My Passion for Excellence
Moneymaker, Chris with Daniel Paisner: Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 Into $2.5 Million at the World Series of Poker
Monge, José Trías: Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Country in the World
Monk, Ray: Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970
Montaigne, Fen: Reeling in Russia
Montefiore, Simon Sebag: Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Montville, Leigh: Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
Moody, Rick: The Black Veil: A Memoir With Digressions
Moore, Judith: Fat Girl: A True Story
Moore, Judith: Never Eat Your Heart Out
Moore, Paul: Presences: A Bishop's Life in the City
Moore, Thomas Gale: Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Global Warming
Moore, Tim: French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
Moore, Wendy: The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
Moorehead, Caroline: Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia
Morantz-Sanchez, Regina: Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn
Moravec, Hans: Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
Mordden, Ethan: Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940's
Mordden, Ethan: Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s
Moreno, Jonathan D.: Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans
Morgan, David: Monty Python Speaks!
Morgan, James: The Distance to the Moon: A Road Trip Into the American Dream
Morgan, Philip D.: Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Morgan, Ted: Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America
Morgenstern, Dan. Edited by Sheldon Meyer: Living With Jazz
Morris, Benny: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999
Morris, Charles: Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen
Morris, Dick and Eileen McGann: Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race
Morris, Dick: The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-first Century
Morris, Dick: Vote.com
Morris, Edmund: Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Morris, Edmund: Theodore Rex
Morris, Holly: Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine
Morris, Jan: Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Morris, Simon Conway: The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
Morris, Willie: The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood
Morrison, Blake: As If
Morrison, Blake: Things My Mother Never Told Me
Morrow, Lance: The Best Year of Their Lives. Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power
Morton, Andrew: Monica's Story
Mosley, Charlotte: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
Moss, Barbara Robinette: Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir
Motion, Andrew: Keats
Motion, Andrew: Wainewright the Poisoner: The Confession of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Motley, Constance Baker: Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
Moussaoui, Abd Samad with Florence Bouquillat: Zacarias, My Brother: The Making of a Terrorist
Mowat, Farley: The Farfarers: Before the Norse
Moynahan, Brian: Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick: Secrecy: The American Experience
Mullis, Kary: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Murakami, Haruki: Underground
Murphy, Bruce Allen: Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas
Murphy, Dallas: Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives -- A Deck's-Eye View of Cape Horn
Murphy, David E.: Stalin's Folly: The Enigma of Barbarossa
Murray, Charles: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
Murray, Charles: What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation
Murray, Douglas: Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
Murray, Nicholas: World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell
Murray, William: Janet, My Mother, and Me: A Memoir of Growing Up With Janet Flanner and Natalia Danesi Murray
Murray, Williamson and Allan R. Millett: A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War
Murray, Williamson and Robert H. Scales Jr.: The Iraq War: A Military History
Musicant, Ivan: Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
Myss, Caroline: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can

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Every week, The New York Times on the Web brings you a new selection of first chapters from books reviewed in The New York Times Book Review or that appear on The New York Times bestseller lists.

Browse our archived selection of nonfiction first chapters, arranged alphabetically by author.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X-Z
Browse fiction books.
Maas, James B., et al.: Power Sleep
MacCambridge, Michael: America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
MacCambridge, Michael: The Franchise
MacArthur, John R.: The Selling of "Free Trade": Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy
Macdonald, Dwight. Edited by Michael Wreszin. A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald
MacDonald, Michael Patrick: All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
MacDonogh, Katharine: Reigning Cats and Dogs
Macey, David: Frantz Fanon: A Biography
Macfarlane, Robert: Mountains of the Mind
Machtan, Lothar: The Hidden Hitler
Macintyre, Ben: The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I
Macintyre, Ben: The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
Mack, Stan: Janet & Me: An Illustrated Story of Love and Loss
Mackenzie, Angus: Secrets: The CIA's War at Home
Mackey, Chris and Greg Miller: The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda
MacMillan, Margaret: Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Maddox, John: What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race
Mahar, Maggie: Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982-1999
Mahler, Jonathan: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning
Mahler-Werfel, Alma. Selected by Antony Beaumont: Diaries 1898-1902
Mahoney, Rosemary: A Likely Story: One Summer With Lillian Hellman
Mahoney, Rosemary: The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
Maier, Charles: Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany
Maier, Karl: Into the House of the Ancestors: Inside the New Africa
Maier, Karl: This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria
Maier, Pauline: American Scripture
Maier, Thomas: Dr. Spock: An American Life
Mailer, Adele: The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer
Mailer, Norman: The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
Mailer, Norman: The Time of Our Time
Maines, Rachel P.: The Technology of Orgasm: ''Hysteria,'' the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Malcolm, Janet: The Crime of Sheila McGough
Malcolm, Janet: Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
Malcolm, Noel: Kosovo: A Short History
Malcomson, Scott L.: One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
Malia, Martin: Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
Malone, Michael S.: Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane
Manbeck, John B. (Consulting Editor). Introduction by Kenneth T. Jackson: The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
Manea, Norman: The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir
Mann, Charles C.: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Mann, James: About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton
Mann, Robert: A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam
Manning, Richard: One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot
Manrique, Jaime: Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me
Mansfield, Howard: The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age
Maraniss, David: The Clinton Enigma: A Four-and-a-Half-Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life
Maraniss, David: They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
Maraniss, David and Ellen Nakashima: The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore
Marchand, Roland: Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
Marciano, John Bemelmans: Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's Creator
Marcos, Subcomandante. Edited by Juana Ponce De León: Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
Marder, T. A.: Bernini and the Art of Architecture
Margolick, David: Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
Mariani, Paul: The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
Marks, Paula Mitchell: In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival
Markus, Julia: Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time
Markus, Julia: J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian
Marley, Rita with Hettie Jones: No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley
Marling, Karal Ann: Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Marlowe, Ann: How to Stop Time: Heroin From A to Z
Marnham, Patrick: Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: News of a Kidnapping
Marrs, Suzanne: Eudora Welty: A Biography
Marsden, George M.: Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Marshall, Ian: Passage East
Marshall, Ian: Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail
Martin, Gregory: Mountain City
Martin, Judith: Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried
Martin, Justin: Greenspan: The Man Behind Money
Martin, Peter: A Life of James Boswell
Martin, Steve: Pure Drivel
Martinez, Andrés: 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas
Martínez, Rubén: Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Marwick, Arthur: The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
Mashaw, Jerry L.: Greed, Chaos, and Governance
Mason, Bobbie Ann: Clear Springs: A Memoir
Massie, Robert K.: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: Dogs Never Lie About Love
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff: The Emperor's Embrace: Reflections on Animal Families and Fatherhood
Masur, Louis P.: 1831: Year of Eclipse
Mathews, Jay: Class Struggle: What's Wrong (and Right) With America's Best Public High Schools
Matlock, Jack F. Jr.: Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
Matthiessen, Peter: The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes
Matthiessen, Peter: Tigers in the Snow
Mawer, Granville Allen: Ahab's Trade: The Saga of South Seas Whaling
Maxwell-Stuart, P.G.: Chronicle of the Popes
May, Ernest R.: Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France
Mayer, Arno J.: The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions
Mayer, Henry: All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
Mayer, Martin: The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets
Mayle, Peter: Encore Provence
Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World: A Memoir
Mazlish, Bruce: The Uncertain Sciences
Mazower, Mark: Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
Mazower, Mark: Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
McAlexander, Hubert H.: Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life
McCabe, John: Cagney
McCain, John with Mark Salter: Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir
McCarver, Tim with Danny Peary: Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans
McCauley, Michael P.: NPR: The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio
McCourt, Frank: Teacher Man: A Memoir

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Jasanoff, Maya: Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
Jay, Karla: Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
Jay, Ricky: Jay's Journal of Anomalies
Jefferson, Alan: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Jeffords, James M. with Yvonne Daley: An Independent Man: Adventures of a Public Servant
Jemison, G. Peter and Anna M. Schein (Editors): Treaty of Canadaigua 1794: 200 Years of Treaty Relations Between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States
Jencks, Christopher and Meredith Phillips (Editors): The Black-White Test Score Gap
Jenkins, McKay: The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone
Jenkins, Roy: Churchill: A Biography
Jensen-Stevenson, Monika: Spite House: The Last Secret of the War in Vietnam
Jezer, Marty: Stuttering
Johnson, Eric A.: Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans
Johnson, George: A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer
Johnson, George: Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
Johnson, Hillary: My Mother Dying
Johnson, Kurt and Steve Coates: Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius
Johnson, Paul: Napoleon
Johnson, Paul: The Renaissance: A Short History
Johnson, Rafer with Philip Goldberg: The Best That I Can Be: An Autobiography
Johnson, Steven: Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Johnston, David Cay: Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else
Johnston, Kenneth R.: The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy
Johnston, Moira: Spectral Evidence
Jolly, Alison: Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
Jones, Brian and Bertrand Piccard: Around the World in 20 Days: The story of our history-making balloon flight
Jones, Jacqueline: American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
Jones, Kathleen: A Passionate Sisterhood: The Sisters, Wives and Daughters of the Lake Poets
Jones, Steve: Darwin's Ghost: "The Origin of Species" Updated
Jordan, Jennifer: Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
Joseph, Charles M.: Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention
Josephson, Paul R.: Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program From Stalin to Today
Josephy, Alvin M. Jr.: A Walk Toward Oregon: A Memoir
Judah, Tim: Kosovo: War and Revenge
Judis, John B.: The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn From Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
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Kagan, Donald and Frederick W. Kagan: While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
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Kahn, Roger: October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978
Kaiser, Charles: The Gay Metropolis
Kalven, Jamie: Working With Available Light: A Family's World After Violence
Kamen, Henry: Philip of Spain
Kamen, Henry: The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision
Kamen, Paula: Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution
Kaminer, Wendy: Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety
Kamm, Henry: Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land
Kammen, Michael: American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century
Kammen, Michael: Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer
Kanfer, Stefan: Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
Kanfer, Stefan: Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
Kantrowitz, Stephen: Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy
Kaplan, Carla (Editor): Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
Kaplan, Cynthia: Why I'm Like This: True Stories
Kaplan, Fred: Gore Vidal: A Biography
Kaplan, Jonathan: The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Kaplan, Marion A.: Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
Kaplan, Robert D.: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Kaplan, Robert D.: An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future
Kaplan, Robert D.: Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground
Kaplan, Robert D.: Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
Kapuscinski, Ryszard: The Shadow of the Sun
Karabel, Jerome: The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
Karabell, Zachary: The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election
Karabell, Zachary: Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
Karbo, Karen: Generation Ex: Tales From the Second Wives Club
Karbo, Karen: The Stuff of Life
Karesh, William B.: Appointment at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian
Karpin, Michael and Ina Friedman: Murder in the Name of God: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin
Karr, Mary: Cherry: A Memoir
Karr-Morse, Robin and Meredith S. Wiley: Ghosts From the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
Kass, Leon R.: The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
Kass, Leon R.: Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
Kass, Leon R. and James Q. Wilson: The Ethics of Human Cloning
Kasson, John F.: Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
Kater, Michael H.: The Twisted Muse
Katz, Jon: Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
Katz, Jon: The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family
Katz, Robert: The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944
Kauffmann, Jean-Paul: The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
Kauffman, Michael W.: American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Kaufman, Andrew L.: Cardozo
Kaufman, David: Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam
Kaufman, Michael T.: Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire
Kavenna, Joanna: The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
Kawabata, Yasunari: The Dancing Girl of Izu
Kay, Jane Holtz: Asphalt Nation
Kaysen, Susanna: The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Kazin, Alfred. Edited by Ted Solotaroff: Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings
Kazin, Alfred: God & the American Writer
Keane, John: Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts
Keates, Jonathan: Stendhal
Keefe, Patrick Radden: Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
Keegan, John: The First World War
Keegan, John: Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy From Napoleon to Al-Qaeda
Keen, Lisa and Suzanne B. Goldberg: Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial
Keiler, Allan: Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey
Keillor, Garrison: In Search of Lake Wobegon
Keller, Evelyn Fox: The Century of the Gene
Kelley, Kitty: The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
Kelly, Aileen M.: Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance
Kelly, John: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Kelly, John F. and Phillip K. Wearne: Tainting Evidence: Inside the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab
Kelly, Thomas Forrest: First Nights: Five Musical Premieres
Kelsey, Harry: Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
Kempe, Frederick: Father/Land: A Personal Search for the New Germany
Kempton, Arthur: Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music
Kenan, Randall: Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Kendall, Elizabeth: American Daughter: Discovering My Mother
Keneally, Thomas: American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
Keneally, Thomas: The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Kennan, George F.: An American Family: The Kennans: The First Three Generations
Kennedy, David M.: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Kennedy, Eugene: My Brother Joseph
Kennedy, Randall: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption
Kennedy, Randall: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
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Kephart, Beth: A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage

Loh, Sandra Tsing: A Year in Van Nuys
Long, Robert Emmet: Broadway, The Golden Years
Longman, Jere: Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back
Lopate, Phillip: Seaport: New York's Vanished Waterfront
Lopate, Phillip: Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: Essays and Criticism From a Lifelong Love Affair With the Movies
Lopate, Phillip (Editor): Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
Lord, Graham: Niv: The Authorized Biography of David Niven
Lord, M. G.: Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science
Lord, Ruth: Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait
Loughery, John: The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History
Lourie, Richard: Sakharov: A Biography
Louvish, Simon: Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo With Added Gummo
Lovenheim, Peter: Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf: The True Story of One Man, Two Cows, and the Feeding of a Nation
Loving, Jerome: Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
Low, Bobbi S.: Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Lowell, Robert. Edited by Saskia Hamilton: The Letters of Robert Lowell
Lowenstein, Roger: When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Lowman, Margaret D.: Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology
Lowry, Beverly: Her Dream of Dreams: The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker
Loxterkamp, David M.D.: A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor
Lozowick, Yaacov: Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars
Luciano, Lynne: Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America
Lukacs, John: The Hitler of History
Lukacs, John: A Thread of Years
Lundy, Derek: Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Lurie, Alison: Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Lutz, Tom: Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears
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Sabbagh, Karl: A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud
Sachar, Howard M.: A History of the Jews in the Modern World
Sachar, Howard M.: Israel and Europe: An Appraisal in History
Sachs, Jeffrey D.: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Sacks, Oliver: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Saffian, Sarah: Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found
Safina, Carl: Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas
Sage, Lorna: Bad Blood
Sahadi, Lou: Johnny Unitas: America's Quarterback
Said, Edward W.: The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After
Said, Edward W.: Out of Place: A Memoir
Salamon, Julie: Facing the Wind: A True Story of Tragedy and Reconciliation
Salinger, Margaret A.: Dream Catcher: A Memoir
Sallis, James: Chester Himes: A Life
Saltzman, Cynthia: Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece
Salvatore, Nick: Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America
Sampson, Anthony: Mandela: The Authorized Biography
Sampson, Curt: The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia
Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.: German Boy: A Refugee's Story
Samway, Patrick H.: Walker Percy: A Life
Sante, Luc: The Factory of Facts
Santiago, Esmeralda: The Turkish Lover
Santoro, Gene: Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Santoro, Michael A.: Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China
Santos, John Phillip: Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Sapolsky, Robert M.: Monkeyluv
Sarris, Andrew: "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet." The American Talking Film: History & Memory, 1927-1949
Sassoon, Donald: One Hundred Years of Socialism
Saunders, Frances Stonor: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
Savir, Uri: The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East
Sayers, Dorothy L.; edited by Barbara Reynolds: The Letters of Dorothy Sayers: Volume 2. 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright
Scanlon, T. M.: What We Owe to Each Other
Scarry, Elaine: Dreaming by the Book
Schacter, Daniel L.: The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
Schaeffer, Neil: The Marquis de Sade: A Life
Schaller, Michael: Altered States
Schama, Simon: A History of Britain. Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603-1776
Schama, Simon: Rembrandt's Eyes
Schell, Jonathan: The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
Schenkar, Joan: Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece
Schickel, Richard: Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World War II
Schickel, Richard: Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies
Schiff, Stacy: Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Schlosser, Eric: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Schlosser, Eric: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Schmemann, Serge: Echoes of a Native Land
Schmidt, Michael: The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
Schmidt, Michael: Lives of the Poets
Scholz, Christopher: Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari
Schopf, J. William: Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils
Schor, Juliet B.: The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer
Schorr, Daniel: Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism
Schrag, Peter: Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future
Schroeder, Pat: 24 Years of House Work . . . and the Place is Still a Mess
Schultz, Howard: Pour Your Heart Into It
Schumacher, Michael: Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
Schwarcz, Vera: Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory
Schwartz, Jonathan: All in Good Time: A Memoir
Schwartz, Marion: A History of Dogs in Early America
Schwarz, John E.: Illusions of Opportunity
Schneider, Paul: The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness
Schulman, Bruce J.: The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
Schullery, Paul: Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
Sciolino, Elaine: Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
Scott, James C.: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Scovell, Jane: Oona. Living in the Shadows: A Biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Scroggins, Deborah: Emma's War
Seabrook, John: Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing -- The Marketing of Culture
Seagrave, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave: The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family
Sears, Stephen W.: Gettysburg
Sebald, W. G.: Campo Santo
Sebastian, Mihail: Journal: 1935-1944
Sebba, Anne: Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image
Secrest, Meryle: Duveen: A Life in Art
Secrest, Meryle: Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers
Secrest, Meryle: Stephen Sondheim: A Life
Sedaris, David: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedaris, David: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris, David: Naked
Segev, Samuel: Crossing the Jordan: Israel's Hard Road to Peace
Segrè, Gino: A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
Segrest, James and Mark Hoffman: Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Seierstad, Asne: The Bookseller of Kabul
Seligman, Craig: Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
Sekules, Kate: The Boxer's Heart: How I Fell in Love With the Ring
Sen, Amartya: Development as Freedom
Sennett, Richard: The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Sereny, Gitta : Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
Serrano, Richard A.: One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Settle, Mary Lee: Addie
Seymour, Miranda: Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend
Seymour, Miranda: Mary Shelley
Seymour-Jones, Carole: Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius
Shabecoff, Philip: Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century
Shachtman, Tom: Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
Shachtman, Tom: Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
Shacochis, Bob: The Immaculate Invasion
Shah, Saira: The Storyteller's Daughter
Shah, Tahir: Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
Shakespeare, Nicholas: Bruce Chatwin
Shakya, Tsering: The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
Shales, Tom and James Andrew Miller: Live From New York
Shalit, Wendy: A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Shapiro, Dani: Slow Motion: A True Story
Shapiro, James: Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Shapiro, Laura: Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
Shapiro, Michael: The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together
Shapiro, Michael: Solomon's Sword: Two Families and the Children the State Took Away
Shapiro, Susan: Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex
Shattuck, Roger: Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts
Shattuck, Roger: Proust's Way: A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time'
Shawcross, William: Deliver Us From Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict
Sheehan, Andrew: Chasing the Hawk: Looking for My Father, Finding Myself
Sheehan, Susan and Howard Means: The Banana Sculptor, The Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer. Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits
Sheehy, Gail: Hillary's Choice
Sheehy, Gail: Middletown, America: One Town's Passage From Trauma to Hope
Sheehy, Gail: Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives
Sheehy, Gail: Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life
Sheehy, Helen: Eleonora Duse: A Biography
Sheldon, Sidney: The Best Laid Plans
Sheldon, Sidney: The Other Side of Me
Shelton, Peter: Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of World War II's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops
Shengold, Leonard: Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts About Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory
Shenk, David: Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
Sherden, William A.: The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions
Sheridan, Peter: 44: Dublin Made Me
Sherman, Janann: No Place For a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Sherry, Suzanna and Daniel A. Farber: Beyond All Reason
Shipman, Pat: The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugène Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right
Shirley, Edward: Know Thine Enemy
Shlaes, Amity: The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It
Shlaim, Avi: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948
Shogan, Robert: The Double-Edged Sword: How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, From Washington to Clinton
Shogan, Robert: The Fate of the Union: America's Rocky Road to Political Stalemate
Shone, Tom: Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer
Short, Philip: Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
Shorto, Russell: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Shoumatoff, Alex: Legends of the American Desert
Showalter, Elaine: Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Shreeve, James: The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
Shteyngart, Gary: The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Shulman, James L. and William G. Bowen: The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values
Siebert, Charles: Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
Siegel, Fred with Harry Siegel: The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life
Signorile, Michelangelo: Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men
Siklos, Richard: Shades of Black
Sikov, Ed: On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Silver, Brian L.: The Ascent of Science
Silver, Carole G.: Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
Silverman, Kenneth: Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
Simes, Dimitri K.: After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power
Simeti, Mary Taylor: Travels With a Medieval Queen
Simon, Anne: The Real Science Behind the X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants
Simon, James F.: What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
Simon, Linda: Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
Simon, Neil: The Play Goes On: A Memoir
Simon, Paul: P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul Simon
Simon, Roger: Show Time: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House
Simpson, Alan: Right in the Old Gazoo: A Lifetime of Scrapping with the Press
Simpson, Brooks D.: Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865
Sinclair, Billy Wayne and Jodie Sinclair: A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story. A Journey From Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
Sinclair, Iain: Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London
Singer, Peter: The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
Singh, Simon: Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Singh, Simon: The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy From Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
Singh, Simon: Fermat's Enigma
Sinnette, Calvin H.: Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf
Sisman, Adam: Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
Sizer, Theodore R. and Nancy Faust Sizer: The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract
Skal, David J.: Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture
Skidelsky, Robert: John Maynard Keynes. Volume Three: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946
Skinner, Kiron K., Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings
Slack, Charles: Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Slater, Lauren: Prozac Diary
Slater, Nigel: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Slater, Robert: Ovitz: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Most Controversial Power Broker
Slick, Grace with Andrea Cagan: Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir
Slovo, Gillian: Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country
Slywotzky, Adrian J. and David J. Morrison with Bob Andelman: The Profit Zone
Smiley, Jane: Charles Dickens
Smiley, Jane: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Smith, Anna Deavere: Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines
Smith, Andrew: Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
Smith, Gene: Until the Last Trumpet Sounds:The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
Smith, Gregory White and Steven Naifeh: Making Miracles Happen
Smith, Jane I.: Islam in America
Smith, Janna Malamud: Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life
Smith, Jean Edward: Grant
Smith, Julia Llewellyn: Traveling on the Edge
Smith, Lee: News of the Spirit
Smith, Liz: Dishing: Great Dish — and Dishes — From America's Most Beloved Gossip Columnist
Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone: Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
Smith, Patrick: Japan: A Reinterpretation
Smith, Rebecca and John R. Emshwiller: 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies That Destroyed Faith in Corporate America
Smith, Red: Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years
Smith, Richard D.: Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass
Smith, Richard Norton: The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick 1880-1955
Smith, Sally Bedell: Diana. In Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess
Smith, Sally Bedell: Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
Smolin, Lee: The Life of the Cosmos
Smolin, Lee: Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Snyder, Don J.: The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
Snyder, Jack: From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict
Snyder, Mary Gail and Edward J. Blakely: Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States
Sobel, Dava: Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Sokal, Alan and Jean Bricmont: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Sokolove, Michael: The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw
Solinger, Rickie, (Editor): Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000
Solinger, Rickie: Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States
Solomon, Andrew: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Solomon, Deborah: Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Solotaroff, Paul: Group: Six People in Search of a Life
Solotaroff, Ted: Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir
Solti, Georg: Memoirs
Sommers, Christina Hoff and Sally Satel: One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
Sommers, Christina Hoff: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
Sontag, Susan: Regarding the Pain of Others
Sontag, Susan: Where the Stress Falls
Sontag, Sherry and Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Sorin, Gerald: Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent
Soros, George: The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power
Soros, George: Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism
Souder, William: A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Story
Souhami, Diana: Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
Souhami, Diana: Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe
Sounes, Howard: Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
Southern, Nile: The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel "Candy"
Southern, Terry. Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman: Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995
Southwick, Karen: Everyone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison
Soyinka, Wole: The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
Spalding, Frances: Duncan Grant: A Biography
Spence, Jonathan D.: The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
Spence, Jonathan D.: Mao Zedong
Spence, Jonathan D.: Treason by the Book
Spencer, Elizabeth: Landscapes of the Heart
Spender, Matthew: From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky
Sperber, A. M. and Eric Lax: Bogart
Sperling, Gene: The Pro-Growth Progressive: An Economic Strategy for Shared Prosperity
Speziale-Bagliacca, Roberto: The King & the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytic and Literary Reinterpretation of "Madame Bovary" and "King Lear"
Spitz, Bob: The Beatles: The Biography
Spitz, Ellen Handler: Inside Picture Books
Sprigg, June: Simple Gifts: A Memoir of a Shaker Village
Spring, Justin: Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art
Spufford, Francis: I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Spurling, Hilary: Matisse the Master. A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Spurling, Hilary: The Unknown Matisse. A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
Stach, Reiner: Kafka: The Decisive Years
Stafford, David: Churchill and Secret Service
Stafford, David: Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
Stainton, Leslie: Lorca: A Dream of Life
Standage, Tom: The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
Stanley, Thomas: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of American's Wealthy
Stanton, Mike: The Prince of Providence: The Life and Times of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds
Stark, Rodney: The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Starr, Douglas: Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Starr, John Bryan: Understanding China
Starr, Kevin: Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003
Starr, Paul: The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
Stashower, Daniel: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
Stavans, Ilan: On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language
Steel, Ronald: In Love With Night: The American Romance With Robert Kennedy
Stein, Gertrude: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Steiner, George: Errata: An Examined Life
Steiner, George: Grammars of Creation
Steiner, Wendy: Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art
Steingarten, Jeffrey: It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
Steingarten, Jeffrey: The Man Who Ate Everything
Steinhardt, Arnold: Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony
Steinhart, Peter: The Undressed Art: Why We Draw
Steinman, Louise: The Souvenir
Stengel, Richard: You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery
Stephanopoulos, George: All Too Human: A Political Education
Sterba, Jim: Frankie's Place: A Love Story
Stern, Robert A. M., Thomas Mellins and David Fishman: New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age
Sternhell, Zeev: The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State
Stevens, Stuart: Feeding Frenzy: Across Europe in Search of the Perfect Meal
Stevenson, Helen: Instructions for Visitors
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Stewart, James B.: DisneyWar
Steyn, Mark: Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now
Stiver, Irene Piere and Jean Baker Miller: The Healing Connection
Stober, Dan and Ian Hoffman: A Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionage
Stoll, David : Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
Stout, Martha: The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us
Strasser, Susan: Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
Straus, Dorothea: The Paper Trail
Stringer, Christopher and Robin McKie: African Exodus
Stringer, Lee: Grand Central Winter: Stories From the Street
Strozier, Charles B.: Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie: Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
Sturgis, Matthew: Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography
Sturken Marita: Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering
Su Xiaokang: A Memoir of Misfortune
Suarez, Ray: The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999
Sudetic, Chuck: Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia
Sudhalter, Richard M.: Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945
Sugden, John: Tecumseh: A Life
Sullivan, Andrew: Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
Sullivan, Evelin: The Concise Book of Lying
Sullivan, Robert: Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Sulston, John and Georgina Ferry: The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics, and the Human Genome
Summers, Anthony with Robbyn Swan: The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon
Sunstein, Cass: Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do
Sunstein, Cass: Republic.com
Suskind, Ron: A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League
Susskind, Leonard: The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
Sutherland, John: Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? Further Puzzles in Classic Fiction
Swartz, Mimi with Sherron Watkins: Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron
Swofford, Anthony: Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Sweetman, David: Explosive Acts: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Félix Fénéon and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin de Siècle
Swisher, Kara: AOL.COM: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web
Swisher, Kara with Lisa Dickey: There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future
Symonds, Matthew with commentary by Larry Ellison: Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
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Szwed, John: Space Is the Place
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Malia, Martin: Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
Malone, Michael S.: Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane
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Mann, Charles C.: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Mann, Robert: A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam
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Maraniss, David: They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
Maraniss, David and Ellen Nakashima: The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore
Marchand, Roland: Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
Marciano, John Bemelmans: Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's Creator
Marcos, Subcomandante. Edited by Juana Ponce De León: Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
Marder, T. A.: Bernini and the Art of Architecture
Margolick, David: Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
Mariani, Paul: The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
Marks, Paula Mitchell: In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival
Markus, Julia: Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time
Markus, Julia: J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian
Marley, Rita with Hettie Jones: No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley
Marling, Karal Ann: Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Marlowe, Ann: How to Stop Time: Heroin From A to Z
Marnham, Patrick: Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: News of a Kidnapping
Marrs, Suzanne: Eudora Welty: A Biography
Marsden, George M.: Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Santiago, Esmeralda: The Turkish Lover
Santoro, Gene: Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Santoro, Michael A.: Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China
Santos, John Phillip: Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
Sapolsky, Robert M.: Monkeyluv
Sarris, Andrew: "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet." The American Talking Film: History & Memory, 1927-1949
Sassoon, Donald: One Hundred Years of Socialism
Saunders, Frances Stonor: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
Savir, Uri: The Process: 1,100 Days That Changed the Middle East
Sayers, Dorothy L.; edited by Barbara Reynolds: The Letters of Dorothy Sayers: Volume 2. 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright
Scanlon, T. M.: What We Owe to Each Other
Scarry, Elaine: Dreaming by the Book
Schacter, Daniel L.: The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
Schaeffer, Neil: The Marquis de Sade: A Life
Schaller, Michael: Altered States
Schama, Simon: A History of Britain. Volume II: The Wars of the British, 1603-1776
Schama, Simon: Rembrandt's Eyes
Schell, Jonathan: The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now
Schenkar, Joan: Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece
Schickel, Richard: Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory, and World War II
Schickel, Richard: Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies
Schiff, Stacy: Véra: (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
Schlosser, Eric: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Schlosser, Eric: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Schmemann, Serge: Echoes of a Native Land
Schmidt, Michael: The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets
Schmidt, Michael: Lives of the Poets
Scholz, Christopher: Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari
Schopf, J. William: Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils
Schor, Juliet B.: The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer
Schorr, Daniel: Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism
Schrag, Peter: Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future
Schroeder, Pat: 24 Years of House Work . . . and the Place is Still a Mess
Schultz, Howard: Pour Your Heart Into It
Schumacher, Michael: Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life
Schwarcz, Vera: Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory
Schwartz, Jonathan: All in Good Time: A Memoir
Schwartz, Marion: A History of Dogs in Early America
Schwarz, John E.: Illusions of Opportunity
Schneider, Paul: The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness
Schulman, Bruce J.: The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
Schullery, Paul: Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
Sciolino, Elaine: Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
Scott, James C.: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Scovell, Jane: Oona. Living in the Shadows: A Biography of Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Scroggins, Deborah: Emma's War
Seabrook, John: Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing -- The Marketing of Culture
Seagrave, Sterling and Peggy Seagrave: The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family
Sears, Stephen W.: Gettysburg
Sebald, W. G.: Campo Santo
Sebastian, Mihail: Journal: 1935-1944
Sebba, Anne: Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image
Secrest, Meryle: Duveen: A Life in Art
Secrest, Meryle: Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers
Secrest, Meryle: Stephen Sondheim: A Life
Sedaris, David: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Sedaris, David: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris, David: Naked
Segev, Samuel: Crossing the Jordan: Israel's Hard Road to Peace
Segrè, Gino: A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
Segrest, James and Mark Hoffman: Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Seierstad, Asne: The Bookseller of Kabul
Seligman, Craig: Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
Sekules, Kate: The Boxer's Heart: How I Fell in Love With the Ring
Sen, Amartya: Development as Freedom
Sennett, Richard: The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Sereny, Gitta : Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
Serrano, Richard A.: One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
Settle, Mary Lee: Addie
Seymour, Miranda: Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend
Seymour, Miranda: Mary Shelley
Seymour-Jones, Carole: Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, and the Long-Suppressed Truth About Her Influence on His Genius
Shabecoff, Philip: Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century
Shachtman, Tom: Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold
Shachtman, Tom: Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
Shacochis, Bob: The Immaculate Invasion
Shah, Saira: The Storyteller's Daughter
Shah, Tahir: Trail of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
Shakespeare, Nicholas: Bruce Chatwin
Shakya, Tsering: The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
Shales, Tom and James Andrew Miller: Live From New York
Shalit, Wendy: A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Shapiro, Dani: Slow Motion: A True Story
Shapiro, James: Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Shapiro, Laura: Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
Shapiro, Michael: The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together
Shapiro, Michael: Solomon's Sword: Two Families and the Children the State Took Away
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Mailer, Norman: The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
Mailer, Norman: The Time of Our Time
Maines, Rachel P.: The Technology of Orgasm: ''Hysteria,'' the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Malcolm, Janet: The Crime of Sheila McGough
Malcolm, Janet: Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
Malcolm, Noel: Kosovo: A Short History
Malcomson, Scott L.: One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race
Malia, Martin: Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
Malone, Michael S.: Infinite Loop: How the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane
Manbeck, John B. (Consulting Editor). Introduction by Kenneth T. Jackson: The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
Manea, Norman: The Hooligan's Return: A Memoir
Mann, Charles C.: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Mann, James: About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China, From Nixon to Clinton
Mann, Robert: A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam
Manning, Richard: One Round River: The Curse of Gold and the Fight for the Big Blackfoot
Manrique, Jaime: Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me
Mansfield, Howard: The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age
Maraniss, David: The Clinton Enigma: A Four-and-a-Half-Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life
Maraniss, David: They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967
Maraniss, David and Ellen Nakashima: The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore
Marchand, Roland: Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business
Marciano, John Bemelmans: Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's Creator
Marcos, Subcomandante. Edited by Juana Ponce De León: Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
Marder, T. A.: Bernini and the Art of Architecture
Margolick, David: Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
Mariani, Paul: The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
Marks, Paula Mitchell: In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival
Markus, Julia: Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time
Markus, Julia: J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian
Marley, Rita with Hettie Jones: No Woman No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley
Marling, Karal Ann: Merry Christmas! Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday
Marlowe, Ann: How to Stop Time: Heroin From A to Z
Marnham, Patrick: Dreaming With His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: News of a Kidnapping
Marrs, Suzanne: Eudora Welty: A Biography
Marsden, George M.: Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Marshall, Ian: Passage East
Marshall, Ian: Story Line: Exploring the Literature of the Appalachian Trail
Martin, Gregory: Mountain City
Martin, Judith: Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried
Shattuck, Roger: Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts
Shattuck, Roger: Proust's Way: A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time'
Shawcross, William: Deliver Us From Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict
Sheehan, Andrew: Chasing the Hawk: Looking for My Father, Finding Myself
Sheehan, Susan and Howard Means: The Banana Sculptor, The Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer. Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits
Sheehy, Gail: Hillary's Choice
Sheehy, Gail: Middletown, America: One Town's Passage From Trauma to Hope
Sheehy, Gail: Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives
Sheehy, Gail: Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life
Sheehy, Helen: Eleonora Duse: A Biography
Sheldon, Sidney: The Best Laid Plans
Sheldon, Sidney: The Other Side of Me
Shelton, Peter: Climb to Conquer: The Untold Story of World War II's 10th Mountain Division Ski Troops
Shengold, Leonard: Soul Murder Revisited: Thoughts About Therapy, Hate, Love, and Memory
Shenk, David: Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
Sherden, William A.: The Fortune Sellers: The Big Business of Buying and Selling Predictions
Sheridan, Peter: 44: Dublin Made Me
Sherman, Janann: No Place For a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Sherry, Suzanna and Daniel A. Farber: Beyond All Reason
Shipman, Pat: The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugène Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right
Shirley, Edward: Know Thine Enemy
Shlaes, Amity: The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It
Shlaim, Avi: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948
Shogan, Robert: The Double-Edged Sword: How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, From Washington to Clinton
Shogan, Robert: The Fate of the Union: America's Rocky Road to Political Stalemate
Shone, Tom: Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer
Short, Philip: Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
Shorto, Russell: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Shoumatoff, Alex: Legends of the American Desert
Showalter, Elaine: Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Shreeve, James: The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
Shteyngart, Gary: The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Shulman, James L. and William G. Bowen: The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values
Siebert, Charles: Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
Siegel, Fred with Harry Siegel: The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life
Signorile, Michelangelo: Life Outside: The Signorile Report on Gay Men
Siklos, Richard: Shades of Black
Sikov, Ed: On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Silver, Brian L.: The Ascent of Science
Silver, Carole G.: Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
Silverman, Kenneth: Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
Simes, Dimitri K.: After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power
Simeti, Mary Taylor: Travels With a Medieval Queen
Simon, Anne: The Real Science Behind the X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants
Simon, James F.: What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
Simon, Linda: Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
Simon, Neil: The Play Goes On: A Memoir
Simon, Paul: P.S.: The Autobiography of Paul Simon
Simon, Roger: Show Time: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House
Simpson, Alan: Right in the Old Gazoo: A Lifetime of Scrapping with the Press
Simpson, Brooks D.: Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865
Sinclair, Billy Wayne and Jodie Sinclair: A Life in the Balance: The Billy Wayne Sinclair Story. A Journey From Murder to Redemption Inside America's Worst Prison System
Sinclair, Iain: Lights Out for the Territory: 9 Excursions in the Secret History of London
Singer, Peter: The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
Singh, Simon: Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Singh, Simon: The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy From Mary Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography
Singh, Simon: Fermat's Enigma
Sinnette, Calvin H.: Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf
Sisman, Adam: Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
Sizer, Theodore R. and Nancy Faust Sizer: The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract
Skal, David J.: Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture
Skidelsky, Robert: John Maynard Keynes. Volume Three: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946
Skinner, Kiron K., Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings
Slack, Charles: Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Slater, Lauren: Prozac Diary
Slater, Nigel: Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Slater, Robert: Ovitz: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Most Controversial Power Broker
Slick, Grace with Andrea Cagan: Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir
Slovo, Gillian: Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country
Slywotzky, Adrian J. and David J. Morrison with Bob Andelman: The Profit Zone
Smiley, Jane: Charles Dickens
Smiley, Jane: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Smith, Anna Deavere: Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines
Smith, Andrew: Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
Smith, Gene: Until the Last Trumpet Sounds:The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
Smith, Gregory White and Steven Naifeh: Making Miracles Happen
Smith, Jane I.: Islam in America
Smith, Janna Malamud: Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life
Smith, Jean Edward: Grant
Smith, Julia Llewellyn: Traveling on the Edge
Smith, Lee: News of the Spirit
Smith, Liz: Dishing: Great Dish — and Dishes — From America's Most Beloved Gossip Columnist
Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone: Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
Smith, Patrick: Japan: A Reinterpretation
Smith, Rebecca and John R. Emshwiller: 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies That Destroyed Faith in Corporate America
Smith, Red: Red Smith on Baseball: The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years
Smith, Richard D.: Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass
Smith, Richard Norton: The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick 1880-1955
Smith, Sally Bedell: Diana. In Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess
Smith, Sally Bedell: Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House
Smolin, Lee: The Life of the Cosmos
Smolin, Lee: Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
Snyder, Don J.: The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
Snyder, Jack: From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict
Snyder, Mary Gail and Edward J. Blakely: Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States
Sobel, Dava: Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Sokal, Alan and Jean Bricmont: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Sokolove, Michael: The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw
Solinger, Rickie, (Editor): Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000
Solinger, Rickie: Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States
Solomon, Andrew: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Solomon, Deborah: Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Solotaroff, Paul: Group: Six People in Search of a Life
Solotaroff, Ted: Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir
Solti, Georg: Memoirs
Sommers, Christina Hoff and Sally Satel: One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
Sommers, Christina Hoff: The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men
Sontag, Susan: Regarding the Pain of Others
Sontag, Susan: Where the Stress Falls
Sontag, Sherry and Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Sorin, Gerald: Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent
Soros, George: The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power
Soros, George: Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism
Souder, William: A Plague of Frogs: The Horrifying True Story
Souhami, Diana: Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
Souhami, Diana: Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe
Sounes, Howard: Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
Southern, Nile: The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel "Candy"
Southern, Terry. Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman: Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995
Southwick, Karen: Everyone Else Must Fail: The Unvarnished Truth About Oracle and Larry Ellison
Soyinka, Wole: The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness
Spalding, Frances: Duncan Grant: A Biography
Spence, Jonathan D.: The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
Spence, Jonathan D.: Mao Zedong
Spence, Jonathan D.: Treason by the Book
Spencer, Elizabeth: Landscapes of the Heart
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