FICTIONBREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler (Berkeley: $5.50)....

FICTION

BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler (Berkeley: $5.50). The Morans take a number of uncharted roads while motoring to a friend’s funeral.

FANCY PANTS by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Pocket: $4.95). British aristocrat Francesca Day and self-made, All-American Dallas Beaudine re-enact the Revolutionary War.

OUT OF THIS WORLD by Graham Swift (Washington Square Press: $7.950. The invasion of the Falklands sparks aerial-photographer Harry Beech’s thoughts of the minefields within his immediate family.

UNNATURAL CAUSES by Thomas T. Noguchi, M.D. and Arthur Lyons (Charter: $4.95). Roman a clef about the drug-induced death of a reckless young comedian.

NONFICTION

PICASSO: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (Avon: $4.95). Did Picasso’s genius destroy those around him or were self-destructive people attracted to him?

IT’S ONLY ROCK’N’ROLL: My On-the-Road Adventures With the Rolling Stones by Chet Flippo (St. Martin’s: $8.950. Flippo focuses on why the phenomenal band has endured for 20 years, almost in spite of itself.

ON SHAKY GROUND: America’s Earthquake Alert by John J. Nance (Avon: $4.95). The most devastating earthquake in U.S. history did not take place in California, and Nance believes the next one could be in New York, Boston, Dallas, Charleston, S.C., or . . . .

HELL’S ANGELS: Three Can Keep a Secret if Two Are Dead (Lyle Stuart: $9.95). Murky history of how the Hell’s Angels progressed from a club for WWII fighter pilots to a group closely identified with 1960s hippie culture to its latest place in the world of organized crime.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCETHE BEST COMPANIES FOR WOMEN by Baila Zeitz, Ph.D. and Lorraine Dusky (Pocket: $8.95). Whittled down to 52 companies that give priority to issues such as the number of female employees on staff, promotional opportunities, maternity leave, revenues, etc.

THE SKYWATCHER’S HANDBOOK edited by Colin A. Ronan (Crown: $13.95). Amateur meteorologist and astronomers and wanna-bes can discover, chart and interpret what in the world transpires in the day and night-time skies.