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nf BookScan forthe week ending Oct. 19. Fa Monday This comic novelishot stuff Stritch at center stage Latest list: newsday.com/books Author Judith Grisel dis- HARDCOVER cusses her of Madison’s lifeare sucking book, “Never NOTHING TO SEEHERE, her in fast. Notuntil she STILL HERE: TheMadcap, Nervy, FICTION Enough: The by Kevin Wilson. Ecco,254 meets the children and comes Singular LifeofElaine Stritch, 1. THE GUARDIANS,byJohn Grisham Neuroscience pp., $26.99. away bleeding does she by AlexandraJacobs. Farrar, (Doubleday) and Experi- realizewhatshe has gotten Straus &Giroux, 352 pp., $27. 2. THE19TH CHRISTMAS, enceofAddiction.” Registra- herself into: “Itwas going to by JamesPatterson and Maxine Paetro tion required. Donations ac- BY MARION WINIK be liketeaching awild (Little, Brown) cepted and will benefit SJJCC’s Special to Newsday raccoon to wear alittle coat BY KELLYMCMASTERS 3. THE INSTITUTE,byStephenKing ACTProgram. At 7p.m., Sid and play the piano.” Onlyit’s Special to Newsday (Scribner) Jacobson JCC, 300 Forest Dr., ne of the most going to be much, much more 4. OLIVE, AGAIN,byElizabeth Strout East Hills; 516-484-1545, important functions than that, because love and roadwaybiographies bring (Random House) sjjcc.org/neverenough of literature is to UCH trust will be involved. And withthemacertainexpecta- 5. THEDUTCH HOUSE,byAnn Patchett Ocheer youupwhen CO yoga.And basketball. tion of bright lightsand (Harper) Tuesday life is hard. Notevery good When Lillian defuses a Bbooze, hard-edged glamour

ANNE 6. THETESTAMENTS, Authors Phil Keith and TomClavin bookdoes that. Manyexcellent situation by dragging the kids andgossip.When the subject in X by MargaretAtwood OU talk aboutand sign copiesof ones aresad or harsh. When LEIGH outtothe basketball court for question is thelegendaryElaine (Doubleday /Talese) their book, “All BloodRuns Red: youneed an escape from the KevinWilson’snew novel, the firsttime,she wonders Stritch, amp those expectations up GIR 7. THE WATERDANCER, TheLegendary LifeofEugene tsuris,pick up“NothingtoSee “NothingtoSee Here,” is a whyittook her so long. tenfold,and addinanarmload of AND by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World) Bullard—Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Here,” Kevin Wilson’s deadpan, hilariousmodern “Maybe raising children was cussing. Luckily, under debutauthor US 8. NINTH HOUSE,byLeigh Bardugo Spy.”At7p.m.,Book Revue, 313 deadpan, hilarious modern CO fairy tale. just giving them the things AlexandraJacobs’serene and EC STRA (Flatiron) NewYorkAve., Huntington; fairy tale completewith impov- youloved most in the world critical hand, “StillHere: 9. BLOODYGENIUS,byJohn Sandford 631-271-1442, bookrevue.com erished heroine,cruel princess rode in silencethe rest of the sition. It seems her husband and hoping that theyloved TheMadcap, Nervy, RRAR, (Putnam) andneglectedchildrenwith way, the radio playing easy has twochildren, Bessie and them, too.” Singular Life of Elaine FA Saturday 10.CHILD’SPLAY,byDanielle Steel

magical powers. listening thatmade me want Roland, from aprevious Much aboutparenting is Stritch” also offers vulner- VER: (Delacorte) NewYorkTimescontributor Thestory is told by Lillian to slip intoahot bath and marriage; their mother has revealed in Lillian’s develop- ability alongside vulgarity CO Robert Simonson (“The Martini Breaker,and it begins in the dream aboutkilling everyone died. They arebeing kept in ing relationship with her andauthenticity alongside Cocktail: AMeditationonthe late spring of 1995.Just turned Iknew.”(Lillian seems aclose seclusion because theyhavea charges. Thepossibilityof the expected avarice. BOOK NONFICTION World’s Greatest Drink, with 28, she is living in her dread- cousin of Marcy Dermansky’s strangeaffliction: theycatch children bursting into Stritch died in 2014 at 89, Y; 1. ME,byElton John (Holt) 2. IREALLY NEEDED THIS TODAY,

Recipes”)and restaurant owner ful hometownwith her mean unapologeticallyimperfect fire when theyare upset. The flames doesn’t seem all that andspent sevendecades LIBRAR Thad Vogler (“Bythe Smoke& mother and working two heroines.) flames don’t harm the kids distant from the terrorsof under stagelights.Jacobs by Hoda Kotb (Putnam) 3. CATCHAND KILL,byRonan Farrow the Smell: My Searchfor the menial jobs. When her high WhatLillian doesn’t want themselves, butburn their real-lifeparenting. Kids’ utilizesthe massive cache of PUBLIC (Little, Brown) Rareand Sublime on theSpirits school friend Madison to explain is that she met clothes and anything they chaotic, unbounded information theactressleft RK Trail”) talk aboutand sign Billings, arich girlfrom Madison as ascholarship touch. emotions, their abilityto in herwake, includingcopi- YO 4. TRAILBLAZER,byMarcBenioff (Currency)

copiesoftheir books.At4p.m., Te nnessee nowmarried to a student at afancy girls’ Of all the possible thingsto hurt themselvesand others, ous interviewsand her ar- NEW BookHampton, 41 MainSt., East senator, calls and asks her to school, wheretheywere worry aboutinthis situation, their propensityfor wreck- chives. This meticulous Elaine Stritch and her collectionofEuropean dolls in one 5. BLOWOUT,byRachel Maddow Hampton; 631-324-4939, come down and consider a bosom buddies until a Madison and her husband are ing the house —it’s a research allows forthe conjur- of Stritch’s NewYork apartments in the early 1950s. (Crown) bookhampton.com job offer, Lillian has nothing treacherous act we will not primarilyconcerned with metaphor with legs. ing of asurprisingand com- 6. THEWAY IHEARD IT,byMikeRowe to lose. disclose here. Unexpectedly, keeping them outofthe way As in his bestseller “The plex realness thatservesasadeep recognitionshe craved. sittingonthe toilet in their London (Gallery) Next Sunday As she’s being drivenfrom the twohavestayedintouch: of his political career.She FamilyFang,” Wilson and resoundingundercurrenttothe Jacobs captures Stritch’sambiva- home.” Thedeath shook her.Only 7. DEAR GIRLS,byAli Wong Oscar winner JulieAndrews and the bus station to Madison’s it seems neither ever found wants Lillian to be their interweavesthe bizarreand publicpersonasowidelyknown. lentrelationship with stardom early afterStritch’s friend,Lee Israel, wrote (Random House) her daughter, EmmaWalton estate by Carl,aminion who anyother friends. governessfor the summer, the mundane to tell astory Thereisnothing necessarilyexplo- on. “Once, shutout on the porch to arousing profile of her (and her 8. TALKINGTOSTRANGERS, Hamilton,discusstheirbook will come to play amajor At the mansion, her taking careofthem in a aboutthe damageparents do sive or sensational here, though there play andatalossfor howtoamuse fabledalcoholism) in TheNew Yo rk by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown) “Home Work:AMemoirofMy role,she decides not to go exquisitelybeautiful former guesthouse on the property. to their children. This one, areplentyofbig names (Marlon herself, Elainefatallyswatted enough Times,did HalPrince, “Broadway 9. THEINFINITE GAME,bySimon Sinek Hollywood Years” with Sag intoher history with his basketball teammate Madison Lillian can barely think of with fire at its center,has the Brando,WarrenBeatty, Angela Lans- flies to spellout her name.Itwas her hitmaker,” call Stritch and inviteher to (Portfolio) Harbor Arts Center artistic employer. “Carldidn’t want is waiting with finger sand- the last time she interacted warmer trajectory.You’ll bury among them);itisthe way wayofsupposingher name in lights,” be part of hisnew musical. “Com- 10.HOMEWORK,byJulie Andrews director Giulia D’AgnoloVallan. to hear anyofthat, so we just wiches, sweet teaand apropo- with achild, butthe comforts close the covers with asmile. Jacobs tracks thequiet darknesses of according to herfriend JulieKeyes. pany,” the masterful acidicexploration (Hachette) Tickets start at $85 and include a Stritch’s private life that givesthis “And that’swhatbilling is about,” of NewYorkmarriages, brought screeningofAndrews’1986 book itsteeth. Elainetold her. “Dead[expletive] Stritch together with Sondheim, and PAPERBACK movie “That’sLife!” andapre- Lainey,asshe wasnicknamed,was flies.” Doomed to aseemingly end- propelledher to the next, and most 1. EVERYBREATH,byNicholas Sparks signed book. For$150, youcan born in Detroit in 1925,under lessstring of understudy, mati- powerful, act of her storiedcareer. (Grand Central)

m Anew heroine makes athrilling escape getyour book signed in person. 2. THEGREAT ALONE, co the tight hand of Prohibition nee or summerstock ver- Stritch oftenjoked with her close y. Books mustbepicked up dayof much frightfulnessasBarr’s “Outofacoil of snaking Familyconnections aredelved and the height of the Ameri- sions of covetedroles, friendand confidant, gossip colum- by Kristin Hannah (Griffin) da event. At 3p.m., BayStreet WHATROSE FORGOT, 19 previous murder-myster- dreams an answerrises, —yes, thereisasister.Ahit cancar craze, thethirdof Stritch Stritch leanedonher nist DorothyKilgallen, whetherit 3. REDEMPTION,byDavid Baldacci ws leaned on her ne Theater&SagHarborCenter by Nevada Barr.Minotaur, ies. We meet Rose in floating intoawindowas man pursuing Rose through a three sistersand daughter humor and smartsinstead wasbetterfor awoman to be beauti- (Grand Central) forthe Arts, 1Bay St., SagHar- 304 pp., $28.99. mid-escape intosome nearby small and darkasthatofa bedroom windowand onto a to aB.F.Goodrichexecu- humor and of looks, andincreasingly ful orfunny, as if those were their 4. THE 18TH ABDUCTION, 19 bor;631-725-9500, baystreet.org woods, and in the overnight Magic 8-Ball.” rooftopends up losingthe tip tive.“‘When Elaine was smarts used champagne and onlyoptions. (“Funny,”Stritch by JamesPatterson and MaxinePaetro 20 CompiledbyNyasia Draper hourswithoutmedication, Barr has always worked in of his finger.Yes, shewilltakea born, thechandeliers instead of vodkastingerstoself-med- reported to Kilgallenduringa3a.m. (Grand Central) 3, looks. 5. NINE PERFECT STRANGERS,

ER BY KIM ODE her mind clearsenough to brief asidesthatdrawa print from thatdigit to dis- shook, andtheynever icate adebilitating perfor- phone call.) Thepower of Jacobs’ Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (TNS) knowthatsomething is smile,aswhen Rose “cries coverhis identity. stopped,’ [hersister]Geor- mance anxiety. biographyisthe wayshe sets Stritch’s by LianeMoriarty (Flatiron) EMB wrong, thatthis sudden forthe dogstheyraised,the In short, Rose is every bit gene became fond of saying.” The Inthe chapter “FromStarMaid story against the canvas of ashifting 6. CRITICALROLE VOXMACHINA: OV nthis stand-alone novel, diagnosis is suspect. cats they served.” as feistyand fearlessasAnna same canbesaid forthisbiography, to Bar Maid,” Jacobs charts what she century, allowing us to watchasthe ORIGINS, VOL. 1,byMatthewMercer ,N Nevada Barr departs from Oncefound and returned Theplotitselfexploresthe Pigeon —and ends up just which dashes anddarts from sceneto calls Stritch’s“absolute nadir.” Her worldexpands beyond these limiting et al. (Dark Horse) AY her long-beleaguered to Longwood, she slylyspits ideaofaprofit motive in aboutasbadly mauled as scenewith dizzying speedattimes. drinking—on stageand off—had boxesfor female performers, and 7. THE OVERSTORY,byRichardPowers UND Iheroine,parkranger Anna (Norton) outher next doses and sets hastening old people to their Barr’s usual foil. Theultimate Names, places and detailsare carried made Stritch abad bet on Broadway. cheerasStritchwas able to expand ,S Pigeon, and introduces us to abouttrying to learn why deaths. “Whatwith the baby villain is unexpected, and the forthonthe forcefulflowofStritch’s She was43, and though she’d hada herself.After “Company,” Jacobs 8. ASPARK OF LIGHT,byJodi Picoult AY

SD Rose Dennis, aresident of an she’s here. Barr seems in- boomers beginning to lose largerscheme achilling energy. She seems always to be stringofboyfriends, therewas no observes,Stritch wasfinally“free of (Ballantine) Alzheimer’s unit in Long- spired by her newprotago- their collective marbles, vision of howaging people searching forthe right boyfriend, lasting love andnochildren; she was being aromantic lead,she could be a 9. BEFORE WE WERE YOURS, NEW wood, asenior carefacility. nist, writing with particular dementiacareisaseller’s can lose control over their actingstudio,apartment,nightclub in debt, her dog died, and then, “on heroine.” She wasall along,ofcourse. by Lisa Wingate(Ballantine) To acertain demographic, styleand savvy.She describes market.” lives. Will we see moreof or gig, trading up as quicklyasshe June 22,1969, Judy Garland’sfifth It just took the worldseven decades 10.AWELL-BEHAVED WOMAN, this setting holds just as Rose waking up this way: Theaction is classic Barr. Rose? Fine by me. wasable, yetnever attaining the husband hadfound Judy dead,at47, to notice. by Therese Anne Fowler (Griffin) GETTY IMAGES FOR92Y /NOAMGALAI