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"My Husband's Sweethearts"

By Bridget Asher (Delacorte, $22)

Lucy Shoreman is still coming to terms with her husband's cheating when she finds out he's dying. Unwilling to go through a second crisis alone, she gets drunk, takes his little black book and calls his sweethearts to invite them to take their turn at his deathbed.

She's stunned when the women start showing up.

A 20-something drug-addict-turned-art-student and a 50-something widow arrive first. Then there's her husband's high school algebra teacher, a lesbian, an actress and, finally, mother and daughter.

Eager to avoid the drama in her home, Lucy turns matters over to her mother and some of the sweethearts while she focuses on reuniting the philandering Artie Shoreman with his long-lost son. But when Artie's son turns out to be as charming as his father, Lucy's life gets even more complicated.

"My Husband's Sweethearts" is best-selling author Julianna Baggott's first novel under the Bridget Asher pen name. She also writes children's books as N.E. Bode.

"Sweethearts" is a laugh-and-cry novel whose plot includes equal portions of heartache and hope.

— The Associated Press

"The Terminal Spy"

By Alan S. Cowell (Doubleday/Broadway, $26.95)

On Nov. 1, 2006, a former Russian intelligence officer named Alexander Litvinenko met with several business associates at the bar of the Millennium Hotel in London. He took a few sips of tea, which British authorities later determined had been laced with polonium-210, an obscure radioactive isotope. That night he began to vomit uncontrollably, and over the next three weeks he died a slow, agonizing death.

In "The Terminal Spy," Alan S. Cowell, a veteran foreign correspondent for The New York Times, gives an absorbing account of Litvinenko's life and bizarre murder. Along the way he explains how Russia lost and got back its tremendous energy resources after the fall of the Soviet Union, describes how wealthy Russians have turned London into "Moscow-on-the-Thames" and tries to determine if the Litvinenko murder is the harbinger of a new and especially dangerous kind of terrorism.

Probably the most spectacular of the theories is that Litvinenko was killed for revealing in an interview that he had been told that the Italian prime minister at the time, Romano Prodi, was a KGB agent.

"Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11"

By Lynn Spencer (Free Press, $26)

Midwest Airlines pilot Gerald Earwood was flying about 100 miles west of New York when he first noticed what seemed like wisps of smoke coming off the World Trade Center.

Roughly 15 minutes later, Earwood and co-pilot Eric Fjelstad were frantically maneuvering their DC-9 jet to avoid colliding with United Airlines Flight 175, the second airplane to hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Their work, following orders from air-traffic controllers, saved the lives of about 30 passengers and five crew members of Midwest Flight 7.

A minute or so later, United 175 — which also came close to colliding with other planes that morning — struck the south tower of the World Trade Center.

A collision between United 175, flying out of Boston, and the Midwest jet, flying from Milwaukee to New York's LaGuardia Airport, "would have changed history," Earwood said in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, his first newspaper interview about the incident.

The near-collision is among several stories told in the book by Spencer, a commercial pilot.

— McClatchy-Tribune