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FICTIONLUCKY by Jackie Collins (Pocket: $5.95). Tie-in...

FICTION

LUCKY by Jackie Collins (Pocket: $5.95). Tie-in with miniseries that begins tomorrow night featuring a Mafia princess who confronts her own father in a turf war.

COME THE RAIN by Beverly Bird (Avon: $4.95). A young Navajo woman becomes a great spiritual and military leader of her tribe.

THE FRED CHAPPELL READER by Fred Chappell (St. Martin’s: 13.95). Includes a novella, poems and short stories by the North Carolina native who has been compared to Faulkner and Twain.

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TO ASMARA by Thomas Keneally (Warner: $10.95). Famine-ridden Ethiopia forces an Australian journalist and other fellow travelers into stark confrontations with themselves.

MAIGRET GOES HOME by George Simenon, translated by Robert Baldick (Harvest: $5.95). Maigret returns home to Saint-Fiacre, where on All Soul’s Day, he discovers the countess has been separated from hers.

NONFICTION

LIAR’S POKER: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street by Michael Lewis (Penguin: $8.95). Lewis, a stock broker in training on Wall Street, witnessed the walls tumbling down.

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PERSONAL FOULS by Peter Golenbock (Signet: $5.95). Golenbock uses troubles experienced by coach Jim Valvano at North Carolina State as an example of what is wrong with college athletics.

NIXON: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 by Stephen E. Ambrose (Touchstone: $14.95). Ambrose’s second meticulously researched volume on this enigmatic man and his often tumultuous career.

ONCE A STOOGE, ALWAYS A STOOGE by Joe Besser with Jeff and Greg Lenburg (Knightsbridge: $4.95). Besser likens his stature in the comedic troupe to that of the forgotten fifth Beatle.

STRANGERS FROM A DIFFERENT SHORE: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki (Penguin: $11.95). Berkeley professor chronicles the contributions, confusion and persecution of this group in its assimilation into the American mainstream.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER as seen by Jennifer Lynch (Pocket: $8.95). Consider this as Cliffs Notes to the series that takes more twist and turns than a road to nowhere.

“DIANE . . . “ The Twin Peak Tapes of Agent Cooper, performed by Kyle Maclachlan (Simon & Schuster Audioworks: $9.95) Cram all night. . . . Perhaps you will be the first on your block to guess who-done-it by listening in on Agent Cooper’s private tapes.

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