FICTIONTHE GLITTER AND THE GOLD by Fred...

FICTION

THE GLITTER AND THE GOLD by Fred Mustard Stewart (Signet: $5.95). From fool’s gold to the new gold of computer technology, an immigrant German family’s multigenerational dreams and disappointments come to rest in California.

ISLE OF VIEW by Piers Anthony (Avon: $4.95). Xanth fantasy continues focusing on the foal-napping of a young centaur.

THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage: $9.95). An English butler reluctantly reviews the changes that have occurred in his occupation and the social order.

THE FOOL’S RUN by John Camp (Signet: $4.95). Computer genius, sometime tarot- card reader and ever-available-hacker-for-hire accepts an offer to sabotage an aerospace tycoon’s rival.

YIDDISH FOLKTALES, edited by Beatrice Silverman Weinreich, translated by Leonard Wolf (Pantheon: $14.95). Legends, fables, jokes and stories are translated from the language that bonds together persons of Jewish descent.

NONFICTION

EXIT THE RAINMAKER by Jonathan Coleman (Dell: $4.95). Jay Carsey, in 1982, had a prestigious position, a model family, all the accouterments of a successful life--and a desperate need to disappear off the face of the Earth.

WHICH REMINDS ME by Tony Randall and Michael Mindlin (Dell: $4.95). The actor believes his almost total recall to be both a blessing and a curse--to the readers it provides quick, amusing theater and movie snippets and anecdotes.

CHILDREN’S SECRETS by Thomas J. Cottle (Addison-Wesley: $10.95). Skewed family myths and histories are sometimes insidiously aided by the thoughts that children unwittingly keep hidden.

MILES: The Autobiography by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Touchstone: $12.95). At times, brutally honest Davis recalls some of the trials and antics that have kept him on the professional and personal cutting edge.

FEAR OF FALLING: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich (HarperPerennial: $9.95). Ehrenreich traces the gradual retreat of the privileged from the political left over the last 20 years.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

WHEN DO FISH SLEEP? AND OTHER IMPONDERABLES OF EVERYDAY LIFE by David Feldman (HarperPerennial: $8.95). Answers some of the questions that make you stop and just say “hmmm?”

WORKING WITH MEN: Professional Women Talk About Power, Sexuality and Ethics by Beth Milwid Ph.D. (Beyond Words (800-284-WORD): $12.95). Interviews were conducted among 125 women who air their concerns about taking a larger part in business management.