FICTION
1. The Rooster Bar, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
2. Origin, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
3. Deep Freeze, by John Sandford. (Putnam) Virgil Flowers is called to investigate in Trippton, Minn., when a local bank's president is found dead in a nearly frozen river.
4. Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King and Owen King. (Scribner) Women who fall asleep become shrouded in mysterious cocoons while the men battle one another.
5. Uncommon Type, by Tom Hanks. (Knopf) Seventeen short stories, each incorporating a typewriter, by the actor.
6. A Column of Fire, by Ken Follett. (Viking) A pair of lovers find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict while Queen Elizabeth fights to maintain her throne.
7. Quick & Dirty, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam) New York lawyer Stone Barrington is hired to recover a stolen Van Gogh painting. (x)
8. Fairytale, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte) Tragedy and unexpected dangers come to life at a Napa Valley winery.