By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY
Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King (Pocket, $9.99, fiction, reprint). USA TODAY calls this short-story collection, King's first since 2002's Everything's Eventual, "wonderfully wicked."
Also recently released:
• The Longest Trip Home
by John Grogan (Harper, $14.99, non-fiction, reprint) In this memoir, the author of Marley & Me recalls his childhood in the turbulent 1960s.
• Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
by Michael Davis (Penguin, $16, non-fiction, reprint) Story of the iconic TV series that has entertained four generations of children.
• The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent (Back Bay Books, $13.99, fiction, reprint) Novel re-imagines the Salem witch trials through the life of Martha Carrier, who was accused of practicing witchcraft.
• It Isn't All About the Cookin'
by Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen (Simon & Schuster, $14, non-fiction, reprint) Queen of Southern cuisine writes of her rise to stardom and recipes for happiness.
• Knit Two
by Kate Jacobs (Berkley, $15, fiction, reprint) Sequel to The Friday Night Knitting Club continues the story of the women who gather at an Upper West Side yarn store.
• Alfred & Emily
by Doris Lessing (Harper Perennial, $14.99, non-fiction, reprint) Nobel winner mixes fiction and non-fiction to tell tragic story of her parents during and after World War I.
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Posted 11/4/2009 6:31 PM ET
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Updated 11/4/2009 8:26 PM ET
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