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THE GREENLANDERS by Jane Smiley (Ivy: $4.95). Tale about a community and family of landowners in 14th-Century Greenland.
TIGER’S EYE by Karen Robards (Avon: $3.95). Isabella St. John must reluctantly rely on her stalwart abductor to prevent her family from pilfering her fortune.
CAROLINA SKELETONS by David Stout (Mysterious Press: $4.95). After 44 years, a man returns to a small Southern town to investigate the electrocution of his then 14-year-old uncle.
BAD BEHAVIOR by Mary Gaitskill (Vintage: $6.95). Contemporary, sometimes extreme, stories of love.
BROTHERHOOD OF WAR VIII: The Aviators by W. E. B. Griffin (Jove: $4.95). Exploits of some of the first Air Assault Division soldiers and their wives in Vietnam.
NONFICTION
THE STALKER AFFAIR by John Stalker (Penguin: $7.95). Expose of suspected cover-up of atrocities committed by the Royal Ulster Constabulary against the Irish Republican Army.
ORDEAL BY ICE: The Search for the Northwest Passage by Farley Mowat (Gibbs-Smith: $12.95). Synthesis of writings from 1576 to 1906 by men who carved out and traveled the Northwest Passage.
OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND by Albert H. Friedlander (Schocken: $14.95). Anthology by prominent novelists, historians and theologians who have experienced or studied the Holocaust.
HEROES OF THEIR OWN LIVES: The Politics and History of Family Violence by Linda Gordon (Penguin: $8.95). Analysis of family dynamics erupting into violence, using 1870-1960 case histories from Boston social service agencies.
DEVIANT: The Shocking True Story of the Original “Psycho” by Harold Schecter (Pocket: $3.95). Wisconsin farmer Ed Gein was the prototype for the infamous Anthony Perkins character in the now classic film.
SELF-HELP / REFERENCE
THE DOUBLE EAGLE GUIDE TO WESTERN PUBLIC CAMPGROUNDS: Vol. I: Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon Washington), Vol. II: Rocky Mountains (Colorado, Montana, Wyoming), Vol. III: Far West (California, Nevada), Vol. IV: Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah), Vol. V: Northern Great Plains (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota) (Discovery Publishing Co.: $8.95 per volume). Guidebook to highway-accessible campgrounds detailing accommodations, fees, activities and natural attractions.
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