FICTIONTREVAYNE by Robert Ludlum (Bantam: $5.95). Former...
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FICTION
TREVAYNE by Robert Ludlum (Bantam: $5.95). Former Undersecretary of State Andrew Trevayne is recruited to ferret out renegade employees involved in piecemeal selling of the government.
PRIME TIME by Joan Collins (Pocket: $5.50). Roman a clef about an entertainer whose star faded and was revived.
HERB’N’LORNA: A Love Story by Eric Kraft (Obelisk: $8.95). Peter Leroy, at his grandmother’s funeral, learns that she and Gumpa led an affectionate and unconventional life selling “coarse goods.”
TO LOVE A ROGUE by Valerie Sherwood (Onyx: $4.50). During the Revolutionary War Lorraine London is rescued from indentured servitude by a stalwart gunrunner.
BLOOD RUN by Leah Ruth Robinson (Onyx: $4.50). Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe refuses to accept the labeling of suicide in the death of her colleague Dr. Shelley Reininsh who dies after being rushed to the emergency room.
NONFICTION
A NEW AGE NOW BEGINS: A People’s History of the American Revolution, Vols. I and II by Page Smith (Penguin: $29.95). Part of an eight-volume set, which ends with the 1920s, that is scheduled to be released through 1991. It depicts the evolvement of 13 colonies into one entity--America.
HEBREW MYTHS: The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (Anchor: $9.95). Scholars of ancient civilizations reproduce, interpret and analyze 61 Judaic myths.
MISSING BEAUTY by Teresa Carpenter (Zebra: $4.95). Investigative re-creation of the murder of a Boston Combat Zone prostitute by a middle-aged college professor.
MEN OF ZEAL: A Candid Inside Story of the Iran-Contra Hearings by William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell (Penguin: $9.95). Two senators sift through the evidence, hearings and findings of the Tower Commission that suggest renegade employees are within the government.
SELF-HELP / REFERENCE
ALL YOU CAN DO IS ALL YOU CAN DO: But All You Can Do Is Enough! by A. L. Williams (Ivy: $4.95). The author shares his “six-point approach,” which helped elevate him from a $10,000-a-year high school coach to a multimillion-dollar insurance industry executive.
THE AIRLINE PASSENGER’S GUERRILLA HANDBOOK by George Albert Brown (Blakes: $14.95). Brown glides us through cancellations, delays, smoking, children, pets, frequent-flyer programs, jet lag, escaping long lines and much more.
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