FICTION

TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. by Gerald Petievich (Pocket: $4.50). U.S. Treasury agent races against retirement and two overzealous colleagues to capture a long-time nemesis.

SHOSHONE MIKE by Frank Bergon (Penguin: $7.95). A group of Indians accused of murder, the victim’s son and a sheriff who has doubts about their guilt all converge in northern Nevada in 1911.

THEY CALL HER DANA by Jennifer Wilde (Ballantine: $4.95). Born into limited means, Dana O’Malley uses the attraction men have to her to lift her into New Orleans society.

THE MED by David Poyer (St. Martin’s: $4.95). The Sixth Fleet is dispatched to the Middle East to rescue 100 hostages--alive.

THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT ALL THERE by Paula Sharp (Perennial: $8.95). Marjorie LeBlanc befriends a number of women who help to ameliorate her life after her husband leaves her and their four children.

NONFICTION

WILLIE: An Autobiography by Willie Nelson with Bud Shrake (Pocket: $4.95). Nelson’s honesty and occasional self-deprecation have helped to bring him and country music into the mainstream.

NOWHERE TO GO: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill by E. Fuller Torrey MD. (Perennial: $8.95). Torrey illustrates the grievous effects of the federal government’s deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in this country.

BLIND FAITH by Joe McGinniss (Signet: $5.95). The brutal murder of an affluent New Jersey housewife mystifies a town until someone tries to cash in her insurance policy.

VISITORS TO MONTICELLO, edited by Merrill D. Peterson (University Press of Virginia: $10.95). This chronicle of Thomas Jefferson’s home mirrors the third President’s alluring and lasting impression on this country.

AN EMPIRE OF THEIR OWN: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler (Anchor: $12.95). During Hollywood’s heyday many moguls were immigrant Jews who flawlessly created an egalitarian, pristine world, with invariably happy endings.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCEWHEN TO SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR THERAPIST by Catherine Johnson, Ph.D. (Fireside: $8.95). Ending therapy can be just as difficult as initiating it for the 40% of all Americans who will seek either short- or long-term therapy.

THE MENSA GENIUS QUIZ-A-DAY BOOK by Abbie F. Salny, Ed. D. and the Members of Mensa (Addison-Wesley: $6.95). A puzzle a day to test your problem-solving abilities.