Fans of Terry McMillan can exhale with her newest novel, “The Interruption of Everything.” Marilyn Grimes – a 40-something wife and mother of three college-age children – has a midlife crisis to cope with. Her philandering engineer husband is having job trouble, and to top it off, her mother is developing Alzheimer’s. Just when Marilyn decides what to do, she finds she’s pregnant. (Viking, $25.95)

Surely, it was only a matter of time before someone made the connection between rock ‘n’ roll and extraterrestrial life. Michael Luckman has done it with “Alien Rock,” detailing the likes of Elvis’ alleged encounters with aliens as a child, John Lennon’s UFO sighting over the Upper East Side, and Jimi Hendrix’s fascination with flying saucers. (Pocket Books, $13.95)

And while we’re on the subject of extraterrestrial life, Australian UFO researcher Bill Chalker offers a unique take with “Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction,” where he writes about the case of Peter Khoury’s alien encounter claims – he took wisps of hair from two female “aliens” and had the DNA tested. (Pocket Books, $14)

Leave it to the Australians to also investigate cursing. That’s just what Aussie linguist Ruth Wajnryb does in her unusual and entertaining “Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad language.” Want to know what the most common curse word is (hint: it can be used as a noun, verb or adjective)? This book’s for you. (Free Press, $18)

In her book of stories, “Bodies in Motion,” Sri Lankan writer – and Chicago resident – Mary Anne Mohanraj tells of two generations of two families in Sri Lanka and in America, where they deal with the conflict between the old world and the new. (HarperCollins, $22.95)