FICTION

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Penguin: $8.95). An unrequited love of 51 years, nine months, and four days is at the heart of Garcia Marquez’s novel filled with magical realism.

A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING by Elizabeth Gage (Pocket: $4.95). Two half-sisters, one an actress, the other a call-girl, are being stalked for destruction by their own mother.

GARFIELD CHEWS THE FAT by Jim Davis (Ballantine: $6.95) Davis’ tubby, troublesome tabby obsesses about food.

TAMARA: A Novel by John Krizanc and L. C. Shaine (Ballantine: $9.95). Mystery based on the long-running play.

FREAKY DEAKY by Elmore Leonard (Warner: $5.95). Sixties radicals who used to bomb buildings for a living and a police detective, formerly on the bomb squad, are on a collision course.

NONFICTION

LIBBY: The Alaskan Diaries & Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880, edited by Betty John (Houghton Mifflin: $8.95) The first non-native American woman and trained cartographer to settle in Alaska kept a diary of her year in the territory.

BITTER BLOOD: A True Story of Family Pride, Madness and Multiple Murders by Jerry Bledsoe (Onyx: $4.95). Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch, a Southern aristocrat, was connected to nine murders in three Southern families.

STARTING FROM SCRATCH: A Different Kind of Writers’ Manuel by Rita Mae Brown (Bantam: $8.95). Ms. Brown, a successful fiction writer, provides sage and sassy commentary on the art of writing.

THE ONLY CHILD BOOK by Michele Slung (Ballantine: $3.50). Some well-known only children, now adults, reflect on that state.

A SMALL FARM IN MAINE by Terry Silber (Anchor: $6.95). Refugees from city life move to a farm and start a mail-order produce business.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

DOG LAW by Mary Randolph (Nolo: $12.95). Attorney Randolph expounds on the legal ramifications of dog ownership--or victimization.

AMERICAN LITERARY ALMANAC: From 1608 to the Present, edited by Karen L. Rood (Facts On File: $19.95). Writers who are related, attended the same school and went to war are some of the more interesting facts covered in this compendium.