FICTION

THE GIFT by Julie Garwood (Pocket: $5.50). Author’s latest historical romance is based on the factual betrothal of a 4-year-old to a 14-year-old.

WEATHERHAWK by Herbert Crowder (Jove: $4.95). Plans for an advanced type of radar technology are missing, and the superpowers all suspect one another.

SMILE, HONEY by Anabel Donald (Mercury House: $8.95). A child grows up and tries to fill the voids in her life, sometimes in extreme ways.

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS by Julian Barnes (Vintage International: $9.95). Allegorical work about how time began--and how it might end.

NONFICTION

DEEP COVER by Michael Levine (Dell: $5.95). Levine answers the question: “If the government can put a man on the moon, then why can’t it find neighborhood drug dealers?”

THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES, edited by Pat Hackett (Warner: $19.95). Pared down from its original 20,000 manuscript pages, this is the best of what the artist considered most interesting about his life.

THE EMPEROR’S NEW MIND: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose (Penguin: $12.95). Author argues computers’ ultimate inability to duplicate the human brain processes.

I RAISE MY EYES TO SAY YES by Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer and Steven B. Kaplan (Avon: $4.95). Author uses a word-board to express her hopelessness at spending three years in an institution due to a misdiagnosis.