AP - "Everything Under the Sky" (HarperCollins Publisher, 387 pages, $25.95), by Matilde Asensi: It's a good thing that the gambling, opium-addicted, prostitute-loving husband of Elvira De Poulain died. She would otherwise be stripped of an adventure that is so engrossing it could compel the reader to skip meals and ignore chores in a mad dash to read the book's ending.

AP - "In the Land of Invisible Women" (Sourcebooks Inc. 464 pages, $24.95) by Qanta A. Ahmed: Most job contracts don't include mentions of the death penalty, but when Dr. Qanta A. Ahmed agreed to a new job in a Saudi Arabian hospital she became subject to the laws of that country which, as she writes in her memoir, can include decapitation.

AP - "Fine Just the Way It Is" (Scribner. 221 pages. $25), by Annie Proulx: It was Annie Proulx's award-winning "Brokeback Mountain" — a tale of love between two Wyoming cowboys — that became an Academy Award-winning film.

AP - "Soccer Dad" (Skyhorse Publishing. 288 pages. $22.95), by W.D. Wetherell: In the first chapter of this loving remembrance of his son's final year of playing soccer on a top-ranked high school team, W.D. Wetherell says he assumes that anyone reading the book "already understands and values soccer."

AP - The Verve, "Forth" (On Your Own)

AP - "The Good Thief" (The Dial Press. 326 pages. $25), by Hannah Tinti: Hannah Tinti treats readers of her first novel much like a runaway train does its passengers: She takes off on her fantastical tale knowing they'll have no choice but to hang on to see how things end.

AP - The Lost Trailers, "Holler Back" (BNA)

AP - Solange, "Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams" (Geffen Records)

AP - "Supreme Courtship" (Twelve. 285 pages. $24), by Christopher Buckley: Opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court have footnotes, so it's fitting that a novel about that institution would have them, too. But who'd expect them to be so amusing?

Reuters - "Traitor" is the cinematic equivalent of an airport novel that can be purchased before a long flight, read en route and discarded upon landing.

AP - Is there anything Christopher Plummer can't do?