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Looking for a good book or movie this summer?
Consider these picks from children's tales
to international intrigue to romance.

CARLA JEAN SCHWARTZ SECTION EDITOR

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hether you're planning a vacation up
North or just relaxing on your patio
in your back yard, summer reading
can be relaxing and pleasurable.
Plenty of popular authors are back
this season with new tales—Mary
Higgins Clark, John Grisham,
Stephen King, Danielle Steel and Leon Uris, Here are
some other new books to enjoy.
The Carousel by Belva Plain (Delacorte Press) tells
the story of an all-American family with a deep, shame-
ful secret. The author of Evergreen and Daybreak writes
another heartbreaking and suspenseful novel.
Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
(Crown) is another Inspector Morse novel
in which the inspector is trying to connect
the murder of a retired Oxford historian and
the disappearance of a college custodian.
Mr. Dexter is one of Britain's premier crime
writers.
The Fatigue Artist by Lynne Sharon
Schwartz (Scribner) is about a woman's bout
with a chronic fatigue syndrome virus.
Homecoming by Barbara Bickmore
(Kensington) is a novel that takes place
over five decades and tells the story of a
woman forced to choose between passion and
ambition.
Hostile Witness by William Lasner
(HarperCollins) is about a lawyer who has the
case of a lifetime only to discover his client
is being set up.
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than
They Appear by Katharine Weber (Crown)
examines love and friendship. Weber's first
novel is about a photographer who travels to
Geneva and finds out her old roommate is hav-
ing an affair with a married man who is an Auschwitz
survivor.
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia
Marquez (Knopf) takes place in South America where

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a priest Nis in love with a 12-year-old girl he is sent to
exorcise. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the
Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.
Paula by Isabel Allende (HarperCollins) is about a
mother who unfolds the family saga at the bedside of
her comatose daughter. Allende writes from personal
experience, since her daughter fell gravely ill in 1991.
She wrote this novel in the corridors of a Madrid
hospital.
Pigtown by William J. Caunitz (Crown) is a police
thriller filled with corruption and drugs set in New York.
Resistance by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown) A
wounded American pilot finds refuge during World War
II on a Belgian farm where the owners resist the Nazis
and shelter Jews.
A River Town by Thomas Keneally (Doubleday/Nan
A. Talese) is a novel based on the real events of the
author's grandfather. It is about Irish immigrants who
arrive in Australia and confront the social pressures of
a new country. Mr. Keneally is the author of Schindler's
List.
The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith (St. Martin's)
is a sequel to the best-selling novel River God. An
ancient document holds the secret to the location of the
Pharoah's hidden tomb filled with jewels.
Shadows on a Wall by Ray Connolly (St. Martin's)
is a murder mystery and love story about the making
of an expensive movie.
The Takeover by Stephen Frey (Dutton) will be re-
leased in August and is a thriller about life in the cor-
porate world.
True Crime by Andrew Mayan (Crown) tells the
story of a reporter who believes a man sentenced to
death is innocent. "I've pretty much quit blurbing books,
but I've got to make an exception for True Crime. It's a
package of big, scary fun. Fill up the coffeepot and lock
the doors before beginning," wrote Stephen King.
The Witness by Sandra Brown (Warner) is the story
of a public defender who is asked to testify against a
group of extremists. The intricate story involves
amnesia, kidnapping and a shocking secret. 0