Tennessee Williams’s THE ROSE TATTOO; a cloistered widow begins a fiery romance with a much younger man.

Susan Cheever’s TREE TOPS: A FAMILY MEMOIR; old secrets surface–on both sides; the sequel to Home Before Dark.

Ruth Rendell’s FROM DOON WITH DEATH; a mousy housewife from a small English town is murdered, and Inspector Wexford investigates; the author’s 1964 debut.

Eve Curie’s MADAME CURIE: A BIOGRAPHY; a daughter of the Nobel Prize winning scientists, Marie and Pierre Curie, tells her parents’ story; winner of a 1937 Pulitzer.