NONFICTION - May 5, 1991

DON’T SHOOT IT’S ONLY ME: Bob Hope’s Comedy History Of The United States by Bob Hope with Melville Shavelson (Jove: $5.95). Hope springs perennial in this half-century look back on the entertainer’s involvement with the great wars and personalities in American history.

DISTURBING THE PEACE: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala by Vaclav Havel translated by Paul Wilson (Vintage: $11.00). Exiled writer’s autobiographical conversation with Czechoslovakia’s playwright president.

THE AMERICAN CIRCUS: An Illustrated History by John Culhane (Owl: $16.95). Overview of some of the greatest personalities, most astonishing shows and magic since 1785.

DAVE BARRY TURNS 40 by Dave Barry (Ballantine: $10.00). Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist/humorist shares his Are You A Grownup Yet? quiz (absolutely scientific), Wealth Through Sickness Investment Program, Blink Time and other adult concepts.

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MASQUERADE by Janet Dailey (Little, Brown: $5.95). Amnesiac heiress’ frantic attempt at keeping her family’s New Orleans shipping company from being sunk by insidious corruption.

THE CAT WHO LIVED HIGH by Lilian Jackson Brown (Jove: $4.50). Retired journalist and his two sleuthing cats unearth clues to an unsolved mystery in their newly renovated penthouse.

THE MUSIC ROOM by Dennis McFarland (Avon: $8.95). Martin Lambert’s only brother’s suicide jogs memories of a prosperous but emotionally bankrupt childhood.

THE STAND: The Complete & Uncut Edition by Stephen King (Signet: $6.99). Five hundred pages of the original manuscript have been added to this modification of the early edition.