NONFICTION - July 28, 1991

TAKE BACK YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Organizing A Citizens’ Patrol Force To Fight Crime In Your Community by Richard Neely (Fawcett Columbine: $8). Judge examines successful national groups (i.e. the Guardian Angels, Seattle Block Watch, Black Muslims) to demonstrate legal and effective ways of restoring our sense of security.

GIVING SORROW WORDS by Candy Lightner & Nancy Hathaway (Warner: $12.99). Founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving offers personal experiences to help those suffering--and those who stand helplessly by.

HOME LOANS by Rick Ingersoll (American Home Press, 333 E. State St., Traverse City, Mich. 49684: $9.95). Easy-to-understand explanations of home-financing jargon for people who don’t know their points from their amortizations.

DO-IT-YOURSELF CREDIT FILE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT GUIDE by Paul Richard (National Center for Financial Education, P.O. Box 34070, San Diego, CA 92163-4070: $9.95). User-friendly information on how to obtain your own credit file, what to look for, and what to do if you do not like what you see. Includes sample forms and letters.

FICTION

UNDER SIEGE by Stephen Coonts (Pocket: $5.95). Jack Gafton uses his international skills closer to home when he works to squash a D.C. drug cartel.

TWINS by Roxanne Pulitzer (Ballantine: $5.95). The ex-Mrs. Pulitzer writes about what she presumably knows--the best places, people and sex.

EAST IS EAST by T. Coraghessan Boyle (Penguin: $8.95). A writer’s colony and the Georgia backwoods shelter Eurasian seaman who jumps ship.

TIME BOMB by Jonathan Kellerman (Bantam: $5.99). The line between victim and victimizer becomes blurred when psychiatrist Alex Delaware is asked to perform a psychological autopsy on a sniper.