Newlyweds Jennifer and Matt really love each other. They never lived together before they were married-and so both were shocked to learn all the little things that go with living with one's spouse. Who knew that in his family, Saturdays were for tackling chores, while in her family Saturdays were for sleeping late? Now, two nice people from nice families are finding out that they do everything differently-and suddenly, they're in the ring with gloves on! Week by week, the fights take both of them by surprise-they never meant to be the kind of couple that acts this way. Simultaneously, though, Jennifer and Matt are building something strong, knocking down old walls of habit and finding the strong foundation of a love that will see them through.This is one year in a marriage-the beginning of a lifetime.

Every year, Ceyala "Lala" Reyes' family--aunts, uncles,mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers--packs up threecars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the LittleGrandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for thesummer. Struggling to find a voice above the boom of her brothersand to understand her place on this side of the border and that,Lala is a shrewd observer of family life. But when she startstelling the Awful Grandmother's life story, seeking clues to howshe got to be so awful, grandmother accuses Lala of exaggerating.Soon, a multigenerational family narrative turns into a whirlwindexploration of storytelling, lies, and life. Like the cherished"rebozo," or shawl, that has been passed down through generationsof Reyes women, Caramelo is alive with the vibrations of history,family, and love.

Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinaryliterary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. Jamesdrew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create oneof the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with ashort time to live and a passion for experiencing life to itsfullest. To the creation of the other two, Merton Densher and themagnificent, predatory Kate Croy, who conspire in an act of deceitand betrayal, he brought a lifetime's distilled wisdom about thefrailty of the human soul when it is trapped in the depths of needand desire. And he brought to the drama that unites these threecharacters, in the drawing rooms of London and on the storm-litpiazzas of Venice, a starkness and classical purity almostunprecedented in his work. Under its brilliant, coruscatingsurfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical andpsychological devices, The Wings of the Dove offers anunfettered vision of our civi

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy — until he is rescued by a beetle eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. All because Harry Potter is a wizard! Follow the adventures of Harry Potter as he discovers the magical, the dangerous, the unpredictable world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In Britain the book is called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone but when the book was published in the U.S. it was called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (although the book itself is the same) This is why the film of the book is referred to by two different names. J.K. Rowling Read these books packed with fantastic wizarding facts and amaze your friends with your knowledge of Harry Potter's magical world……

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Mrs. Dalloway "chronicles aJune day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken upwith running minor errands in preparation for a party and that ispunctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she hasnever met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immenseresonance and significance-infusing it with the elemental conflictbetween death and life-Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers herdistinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925,"Mrs. Dalloway "is Woolf's first complete rendering of what shedescribed as the "luminous envelope" of consciousness: a dazzlingdisplay of the mind's inside as it plays over the brilliant surfaceand darker depths of reality. This edition uses the text of theoriginal British publication of "Mrs. Dalloway," which includeschanges Woolf made that never appeared in the first or subsequentAmerican editions.

Sixteen-year-old suburbanite Chris Lloyd and his mate Tonispend their free time wishing they were French, making up storiesabout strangers, and pretending to be fl?neurs. When they grow upthey'd like to be "artists-in-residence at a nudist colony." Ifyouthful voyeurism figures heavily in their everyday lives, so,too, do the pleasures of analogy, metaphor, and deliberatemisprision. Sauntering into one store that dares to call itself MANSHOP, Toni demands: "One man and two small boys, please." Julian Barnes could probably fill several books with these boys'clever misadventures, but in his first novel he attempts somethingmore daring--the curve from youthful scorn to adult contentment. In1968, when Chris goes off to Paris, he misses the May événementsbut manages, more importantly, to fall in love and learn thepleasures of openness: "The key to Annick's candour was that therewas no key. It was like the atom bomb: the secret is that there isno secret." The final section finds Chris back in suburb

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog toweep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a womanparlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetellingposition with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver andhis wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of aCaribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition isvery much intact. In these twelve masterly stories about the livesof Latin Americans in Europe, Garcia Marquez conveys the peculiaramalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is theemigre experience.

Wishing she could enjoy the freedoms and pleasures so casuallyenjoyed by ordinary women, orthodox rabbi's daughter Rachelanticipates her arranged marriage and imagines what her life willbe like. Reprint.

Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises fourremarkable novels that explore social class in America and theinner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today asit on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous livesof a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, fromthe 1930s to the 1967 race riots. Praised by The Nation for her“potent, life-gripping imagination,” Oates traces the aspirationsand struggles of Loretta Wendall, a dreamy young mother who isfilled with regret by the age of sixteen, and the subsequentdestinies of her children, Maureen and Jules, who must fight tosurvive in a world of violence and danger. Winner of the National Book Award, them is an enthralling novelabout love, class, race, and the inhumanity of urban life. It is,raves The New York Times, “a superbly accomplished vision.” Them is the third novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books thatcomplete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights,Expensive Peo

'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.

A revised edition of a medieval masterpiece-the firstnarrative history written by a woman Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter ofByzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one ofthe most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon ofmedieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of theimperial couple, reveals the inner workings of the court, profilesits many extraordinary personages, and offers a firsthand accountof immensely significant events such as the First Crusade, as wellas its impact on the relationship between eastern and westernChristianity. A celebrated triumph of Byzantine letters, this is anunparalleled view of the glorious Constantinople and the medievalworld.

Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises fourremarkable novels that explore social class in America and theinner lives of young Americans. In "A Garden of Earthly Delights,"Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole,the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers.Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence andpoverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clarastruggles for independence by way of her relationships with fourvery different men: her father, a family man turned itinerantlaborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, whorescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love;Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; andSwan, Clara's son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burdenof his mother's ambition. A masterly work from a writer with "theuncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America"("National Review"), "A Garden of Earthly Delights "is the openingstanza i

" Zamyatin's] intuitive grasp of the irrational side oftotalitarianism- human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself-makesWe] superior to Huxley's Brave New World]."-George Orwell Aninspiration for George Orwell's "1984" and a precursor to the workof Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem, We is a classic of dystopianscience fiction ripe for rediscovery. Written in 1921 by theRussian revolutionary Yevgeny Zamyatin, this story of the thirtiethcentury is set in the One State, a society where all live for thecollective good and individual freedom does not exist. The noveltakes the form of the diary of state mathematician D-503, who, tohis shock, experiences the most disruptive emotion imaginable: lovefor another human being.At once satirical and sobering-and nowavailable in a powerful new modern translation-We speaks to all whohave suffered under repression of their personal and artisticfreedom. "One of the greatest novels of the twentiethcentury."-Irving Howe

With his first groundbreaki'ng book, Soul Prints, Marc Gafni taught readers how to tread a lifelong path of meaning by realizing their true, unique selves. Now, in The Mystery of Love, the profound philosopher and beloved spiritual teacher invites readers to the next step on the journey, addressing with passion, wisdom, and genuine humility the all-important issues of love, creativity, and our erotic connection to the universe. In the tradition of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled and Gary Zukov's The Seat of the Soul, The Mystery of Love speaks pene-tratingly to the age-old desire to move beyond emptiness and alienation and touch the full eros of living. Gafni, with clarity, bril- liance, and great compassion, re-frames our understandings of the erotic and the sensual in a way that invites us to live with passion and love in all facets of our lives. While drawn from the ancient wisdom texts of the Kabbalist tradi-tion, The Mystery of Love speaks to all readers who seek a passionate, joyful, yet

" A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum ' because he could see no more." But to its residents thisderelict corner of Trinidad' s capital is a complete world, whereeverybody is quite different from everybody else. There' s Popo thecarpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build " the thing withouta name." There' s Man-man, who goes from running for public officeto staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bullywith glass tear ducts. There' s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrallto her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S.Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighborsconstruct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhoviancompassion.Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed- butprecociously observant- neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a workof mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy andanarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.

When successful young Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship, just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can’t explain to even her closest friends why she did it. As Emily contemplates whether she made a huge mistake, the rest of her world begins to unravel: she is assigned to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit where she must defend the very values she detests by a boss who can’t keep his hands to himself; her grandfather, a feisty octogenarian and the person she cares most about, is losing it, while her emotionally distant father has left her to cope with this alone; and her fading memories of her deceased mother continue to remind her that love doesn’t last forever. How this brave young heroine finally decides to take control of her life and face the fears that have long haunted her ,is the great achievement of Julie Buxbaum’s marvelous first novel. Written with the authority, grace, and wisdom of an author far beyond her years, The Opposite of Love heralds the debu

The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement ofHenry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he wastransforming himself from a talented young American into a residentof Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatestnovelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of thistransformation informs every page of this masterpiece. IsabelArcher, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girlnewly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherousjourney to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence thatis at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characterswith whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, betweenwhom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom shemust do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggestsdazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England andItaly--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remainingcrucial to the larger drama.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Though its fame as an icon oftwentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance ofits narrative technique and the impressionistic beauty of itsprose, "To the Lighthouse "is above all the story of a quest, andas such it possesses a brave and magical universality. Observedacross the years at their vacation house facing the gales of theNorth Atlantic, Mrs. Ramsay and her family seek to recapturemeaning from the flux of things and the passage of time. Though itis the death of Mrs. Ramsay on which the novel turns, her presencepervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory thatis also a celebration of domestic life and its most intimatedetails. Virginia Woolf's great book enacts a powerful allegory ofthe creative consciousness and its momentary triumphs over fleetingmaterial life.

The growing interest in Afro American literature that began in the 1960s led to the rediscovery of earlier Afro-American writers, one of whom was Jean Toomer, author of Cane. Originally pubhshed in 1923, Cane is generally considered a principle literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. It is an innovative work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction. "Backgrounds" contains gcnerous excerpts from Jean Toomer's correspondence with fellow writers Sherwood Anderson, Waldo Frank, and Allen Tate, and with his publisher, Horace Liveright. Darwin T. Turner's "Introduction" (to the 1975 Liveright edition of Cana), reprinted here, presents the historical and literary backgrounds to the work, as well as additional biographical information on Toomer. Critical commentary, both contemporary and more recent, on Cane and More Recent, on Cane and Toomer is wide-ranging, Included are essays by W. E. B. Du Bois, Gorham B. Munson, Robert Bone, Patricia Watkins, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Nellie Y. McKay, and Darwin T.

From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains ofthe Day" "comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born inearly-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age ofnine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, morethan twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in Londonsociety; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him famehas done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents'alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthinecity of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own,painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyondrecognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficultto trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful andpsychologically acute, When We Were Orphans" "offers a profoundmeditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibilityof avenging one's past.