FICTION

GOOD HEARTS by Reynolds Price (Ballantine: $4.95). Rosacoke and Wesley Beavers met in Price’s earlier novel, “A Long and Happy Life.� Here, their 28-year marriage begins to disintegrate.

BEST KEPT SECRETS by Sandra Brown (Warner: $4.95). Alexandra Gaither will go to any length to find out which one of three men knows the secret behind her mother’s death.

CONFESSIONS OF JOHNNY RINGO by Geoff Aggeler (Signet: $4.50). Ringo, the subject of Aggeler’s historical novel, carried classical books in his saddlebag and shot a man for refusing to drink with him.

MAIGRET’S MEMOIRS by Georges Simenon, translated by Jean Stewart (Avon: $3.50). Popular French detective’s retrospective on his career.

PRIME EVIL: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror, edited by Douglas E. Winter (Signet: $4.95). Masters of the macabre: Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub et al do their worst--which is actually their best.

NONFICTION

WHO KILLED CBS? The Undoing of America’s Number One News Network by Peter J. Boyer (St. Martin’s: $5.95). Was CBS the victim of superegos, diminishing profits, changing technology--or all of the above?

YANGTZE: Nature, History, and the River by Lyman P. Van Slyke (Addison-Wesley: $8.95). The 3,900-mile Yangtze River’s history is intertwined with the millions of Chinese who live on its banks.

DEAD SERIOUS by Jane Mersky Leder (Avon: $2.95). Examines teen suicide and how friends, relatives and concerned individuals can intervene.

SECRETS OF A PRIVATE EYE by Irwin Blye and Ardy Friedberg (Berkley: $3.95). Blye, a veteran investigator, sheds some of the mystery and shares confidential tools of the trade.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, edited by Arthur Cotterell (Penguin: $17.95). Index of early Egyptian, West Asian, Indian, European, Chinese and American civilizations.

THE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF 20TH CENTURY BIOGRAPHY by Edward Vernoff and Rima Shore (Meridian: $12.95). Data on 5,650 of the most influential people in this century.

POCKET FACTFINDER by Ann Kay (Random House: $7.95) Filled with facts and accompanied by lively, colorful pictures of stuff kids need to know about science, government, the arts, sports and other categories.