>A SHORT GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE Anna Quindlen In this slim, pithy volume, the best-selling author of One True Thing shares some wisdom about what it takes to be content and centered. (Random House, $12.95)
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD Joy Williams A darkly humorous novel in which three motherless teenage girls find excitement in the Arizona desert while seeking to clarify life's meaning. (Knopf, $25)
IN THE LAND OF WHITE DEATH Valerian Albanov For true-life adventure fans comes a diarist's tale of his struggle to save a party trapped in the Arctic in 1912. (Modern Library, $21.95)
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