"The women of Harvard Square are smart, sassy, and sexy. There's Agnes, who with her boyfriend Maynard provides the inspiration for her best friend Diana's new play that turns into a steamy, boundary-bending sendup. As for Agnes and Diana, don't even try to imagine their shenanigans. You'll want to meet Agnes's grandmother Abigail, who at eighty-seven is still feisty and more than a little naughty--and Adriana, her daughter and Agnes's mother, who receives a shocking gift from her old Radcliffe roommate. That's Olympia, the award-winning novelist, who gets the scare of her life when she...

Michael Lieberman s Some Dark Fire, New and Selected Poems is a generous sampling of an exceptional poet s mature work, written over almost thirty years since Lieberman moved to Houston in 1988. His poems offer a perspective on our world that is in turn celebratory, somber, joyous, dark, tender, and, most of all, doubt-plagued. He offers no easy answers, but his questions will enrich and reward the reader. This deeply felt book is the work of a gifted poet and research physician at the height of his powers.
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Every heart conceals a few small secrets
or, if full of...