FICTION

SPY HOOK by Len Deighton (Fawcett: $5.95). Author of “Mexico Set,” “London Match” and “Berlin Game” dispatches his secret service protagonist to London and into a tussle with the KBG over the disappearance of $1 million in gold.

SILVERTIP’S CHASE by Max Brand (Berkley: $2.95). Silvertip has the unenviable task of tracking a wild timber wolf and securing the treasure map tied to his neck by a dying man.

TOO DEEP FOR TEARS by Kathryn Lynn Davis (Pocket: $5.50). Scotland, China, and England are the homes of the adult daughters of a career diplomat.

THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL by Douglas Adams (Pocket: $4.95). The story here, like his other successful books (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and most recently “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”), is at turns “wacky and whimsical, loony and zany, original and funny.”

CAN’T QUIT YOU BABY by Ellen Douglas (Penguin: $6.95). The walls of a Mississippi kitchen are constrained by the entwined histories of the mistress of the house and her housekeeper.

NONFICTION

SIGNS OF OUR TIME: The Secret Meanings of Everyday Life by Jack Solomon (Perennial: $8.95). Professor of English and semiotics assigns ominous interpretations to many modern consumer-oriented trends and developments.

LOVE AND WAR IN THE APENNINES by Eric Newby (Penguin: $8.95). Barely keeping a step ahead of the German army, Newby was given refuge in a remote Italian village in 1943.

GOLDWATER by Barry M. Goldwater with Jack Casserly (St. Martin’s: $5.95). Candid recollections of an Arizona childhood, three decades in the Senate and a run for the presidency of the United States.

THE UNICORN’S SECRET: Murder in the Age of Aquarius by Steven levy (Onyx: $4.95). Sixties peacenik is still at large for the murder of his All-American girlfriend, whose remains were found in a trunk on his porch.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

TIMESOURCE by Paul Rice (Ten Speed: $14.95). It’s not too late to get a grasp, and some control, on the manifold aspects of time, e.g. body time, desk time, leisure time, electronic time, etc.

SILENT GRIEF: Living in the Wake of Suicide (Bantam: $9.95). Help in overcoming the survivor/victim symptoms of suicides.