FICTIONKILLSHOT by Elmore Leonard (Warner: $5.95). Ruthless...

FICTION

KILLSHOT by Elmore Leonard (Warner: $5.95). Ruthless hit man pursues a relentless search for a couple seeking anonymity in the federal witness-protection program.

ESCAPE NOT MY LOVE by Elaine Coffman (Dell: $4.50). Jay Culhane is hired by a wealthy Texas rancher to return his headstrong daughter--against her will--from her teaching job in a remote town.

JOHN DOLLAR by Marianne Wiggins (Perennial: $8.95). Jolting tale of eight English schoolgirls stranded on an island with their two adult chaperons.

MARILYN’S DAUGHTER by John Rechy (Carroll & Graf: $8.95). Her mother’s suicide leads a young woman to believe she may be the putative daughter of Marilyn Monroe.

NONFICTION

THE HEART OF THE ORDER by Thomas Boswell (Penguin: $8.95). Selected baseball essays from Boswells’ column comprise this collection.

IN MY OWN FASHION by Oleg Cassini (Pocket: $5.95). Cassini has romanced and designed for some legendary beauties, Grace Kelly, Gene Tierney and Jacqueline Kennedy to name a few.

THE COMING SOVIET CRASH by Judy Shelton (The Free Press: $9.95). Shelton cautions that perestroika may help camouflage U.S. financing of future Soviet military hardware.

INDIAN SURVIVAL ON THE CALIFORNIA FRONTIER by Albert L. Hurtado (Yale: $11.95). Historical overview of North American Indians during the period of California’s settlement by whites.

THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS by Donald A. Norman (Doubleday: $12.95). Electrical engineer and psychologist discusses correlations and incongruities between design and usage.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

THE WHOLE BASEBALL CATALOGUE: The Ultimate Guide to the Baseball Marketplace, edited by John Thorn and Bob Carroll (Fireside: $17.95). Guide to goods and services of all things baseball: batting cages, clubs, fantasy camps and where you write to complain . . .

MAKING VEGETABLES GROW by Thalassa Cruso (Lyons & Burford: $12.95). Author of “Making Things Grow” concentrates her practical advice on such matters as soil and care strategies for vegetables.

THE NATIONAL GARDENING ASSOCIATION GUIDE TO KIDS’ GARDENING by Lynn Ocone with Eve Pranis (John Wiley & Sons: $9.95). Designed to help teachers, parents and youth leaders to encourage motivation, responsibility and leadership in youngsters through gardening.