Prepub alert.(fiction)(Bibliography)

FICTION

Browne, Jill Conner with Karin Gillespie. The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn't Actually Do, but Could Have, and May Yet. S. & S. Jan. 2007. 304p. ISBN 0-7432-7827-5 [ISBN 978-0-7432-7827-0]. $22.95.

You've read the Sweet Potato Queen books, you've joined one of the 4100 SPQ chapters, you're anticipating the SPQ musical. Now read the first, big autobiographical novel. With a 20-city tour; reading group guide.

Chandra, Vikram. Sacred Games. HarperCollins. Jan. 2007. 912p. ISBN 0-06-113035-4 [ISBN 978-0-06-113035-9]. $27.95.

World-weary Mumbai police officer Sartaj Singh goes after crime kingpin Ganesh Gaitonde in a big way. A thriller with social consequences that the publicist says will be huge. With a ten-city tour; one-day laydown.

Cornwell, Bernard. Lords of the North. HarperCollins. Jan. 2007. 320p. ISBN 0-06-088862-8 [ISBN 978-0-06-088862-6]. $25.95. Irg. prnt. CD: HarperAudio.

Third in the "Saxon Chronicles," this work introduces our hero, Uhtred, to the man who calls himself king of Northumbria. One-day laydown.

Cusk, Rachel. Arlington Park. Farrar. Jan. 2007. 256p. ISBN 0-374-10080-2 [ISBN 978-0-374-10080-3]. $23.

One rainy day in the self-satisfied but morally bankrupt English suburb of Arlington Park. Readers' guide.

Darwin, Emma. The Mathematics of Love. Morrow. Jan. 2007. 448p. ISBN 0-06-114026-0 [ISBN 978-0-06-114026-6]. $24.95.

Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter offers a debut set …