A new volume of poems brings readers startling visions of theworld in which we all live, exploring a haunted landscape on thebrink in which the mundane and surreal, profane and sacred areindistinguishable.

'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, with malice in hervoice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening hiseyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for thefirst time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must gotheir separate ways. So where will they be on this one day nextyear? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twentyyears, two people, ONE DAY. From the author of the massivebestseller STARTER FOR TEN.

In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy famously wrote, "Happy families areall alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Thiscelebrated maxim seems questionable at best to literature professorTracy Farber. If Tolstoy is to be taken at his word, onlyunhappiness is interesting; happiness is predictable and bland.Tracy secretly nurtures an unusual project: proving that happinesscan be uniquely interesting, in literature and in life. Althoughchallenging the masterly Tolstoy creates a potential threat to herjob security, Tracy is confident. After all, she's her own perfectexample -- content with friends and work and satisfied to be singleat age thirty-three. But then she meets George, who will sweep heroff her feet and challenge all of her theories. When love provesmore complicated than Tracy had imagined, she struggles to findhappiness in a way that fulfills both her head and her heart.

Book De*ion Toni Morrison's new novelis a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power andperversity, color and class that spans three generations of blackwomen in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who woulddo almost anything to gain his favor. In death his hold on them maybe even stronger. Wife, daughter, granddaughter, employee,mistress: As Morrison's protagonists stake their furious claim onCosey's memory and estate, using everything from intrigue tooutright violence, she creates a work that is shrewd, funny,erotic, and heart-wrenching. Amazon.com The first page of Toni Morrison's novel Love is a soft introductionto a narrator who pulls you in with her version of a tale of theocean-side community of Up Beach, a once popular ocean resort.Morrison introduces an enclave of people who react to one man--BillCosey--and to each other as they tell of his affect on generationsof characters living in the seaside community. One clear truthhere, told time and ag

"That Little Something "is the superb eighteenth collection fromone of America's most vital and honored poets. Over the course ofhis singular career, Charles Simic has won nearly every accolade,including the Pulitzer Prize, and he served as the poet laureate ofthe United States from 2007 to 2008.His wry humor and darklyilluminating vision are on full display here as he moves close tothe dark ironies of history and human experience. Simic understandsthe strange interplay between the ordinary and the odd, betweenreality and imagination. "That Little Something "is a stunningcollection from "not only one of the most prolific poets but alsoone of the most distinctive, accessible, and enjoyable" ("New YorkTimes Book Review").