fiction
1. STARTING NOW, by Debbie Macomber. (Ballantine, $26.) A Seattle lawyer loses her job and remakes her life; she finds support at the local knitting store. A Blossom Street novel.
2. MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA, by Paulo Coelho. (Knopf, $22.) The wisdom of a man known as the Copt, set in Jerusalem just before the Crusaders' invasion in 1099.
3. LIFE AFTER LIFE, by Kate Atkinson. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A woman appears in different versions of the same events, centered on World War II.
4(x). THE BURGESS BOYS, by Elizabeth Strout. (Random House, $26.) Two brothers, both lawyers, come together in a small Maine town to defend their good-for-nothing nephew; by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Olive Kitteridge."
5. SIX YEARS, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $27.95.) Six years after the woman he loved married another man, Jake Fisher discovers that neither she nor their life together was what it seemed, and he sets out to uncover the truth.
6. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown, $25.) A woman disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary; is her husband a killer?
7. LOVER AT LAST, by J.R. Ward. (New American Library, $27.95.) Book 11 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.