'Wicked Prey' readings set for this week

The amazingly prolific John Sandford (real name John Camp) has yet another book out. "Wicked Prey," a Lucas Davenport thriller, was published this month by Putnam. The author has several signings and Q&As scheduled this week, including two on Tuesday: noon at Barnes & Noble, Nicollet Mall, and 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble in Roseville. He'll talk at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Once Upon a Crime in Minneapolis and 7 p.m. Thursday at Borders in Richfield.

Also...

• "Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides and Memory" by Scott Laderman has been published by Duke University Press ($22.95). Laderman is an assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

• Joy K. Lintelman, professor of history at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., has published "I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson," with the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

• "Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range," a memoir by Aaron Brown, has been published by Red Step Press. Brown is a columnist for the Hibbing Daily Tribune.

• "Missing Mark" by Julie Kramer will be published in July by Doubleday. Kramer's first book, "Stalking Susan," won a Minnesota Book Award and was nominated for a Mary Higgins Clark award.

• Joseph Helgerson's young adult novel "Crows and Cards" has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The book follows the adventures of one Zebulon Crabtree, who takes up with a riverboat gambler on the Mississippi River in the mid-1800s.

• Neil Gaiman's "Blueberry Girl," illustrated by Charles Vess, has been published by HarperCollins. Gaiman, who lives in western Wisconsin, won the Newbery Award last year for "The Graveyard Book." He and Vess previously collaborated on "Stardust."

• Four Scarletta Press titles are finalists for national and regional awards. "Ultimate Breakthrough Planning" by Mike Ferrell and "Tragedy in South Lebanon" by Cathy Sultan are finalists for a Midwest Book Award, which will be announced Wednesday. "The New Writer's Handbook," edited by Phil Martin, and "Written on the Knee," translated and edited by Helen Electrie Lindsay, are finalists for the Ben Franklin Award, to be announced May 28. And "Tragedy in South Lebanon" is also a finalist for the ForWord Magazine book of the year, which will be announced May 29 at the Book Expo of America in New York.