Anita Brookner’s A MISALLIANCE; after twenty years of marriage, an eccentric woman is abandoned by her husband.

A. E. Hotchner’s DORIS DAY: HER STORY; the actress dispels her image of innocence.

Anne Rivers Siddons’ THE GIRLS OF AUGUST; every summer, four friends reunite to re-evaluate their lives.

Jacqueline Susann’s YARGO: A LOVE STORY; a beautiful woman is kidnapped by a man from outer space; the author’s debut 1956 novel; published posthumously in 1979.

Irving Stone’s JACK LONDON: SAILOR ON HORSEBACK; a historic biography about the peripatetic author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang.