FICTIONKILLSHOT by Elmore Leonard (Warner: $5.95). Ruthless...

FICTION

KILLSHOT by Elmore Leonard (Warner: $5.95). Ruthless hit man pursues a relentless search for a couple seeking anonymity in the federal witness-protection program.

ESCAPE NOT MY LOVE by Elaine Coffman (Dell: $4.50). Jay Culhane is hired by a wealthy Texas rancher to return his headstrong daughter--against her will--from her teaching job in a remote town.

JOHN DOLLAR by Marianne Wiggins (Perennial: $8.95). Jolting tale of eight English schoolgirls stranded on an island with their two adult chaperons.

MARILYN’S DAUGHTER by John Rechy (Carroll & Graf: $8.95). Her mother’s suicide leads a young woman to believe she may be the putative daughter of Marilyn Monroe.

NONFICTION

THE HEART OF THE ORDER by Thomas Boswell (Penguin: $8.95). Selected baseball essays from Boswells’ column comprise this collection.

IN MY OWN FASHION by Oleg Cassini (Pocket: $5.95). Cassini has romanced and designed for some legendary beauties, Grace Kelly, Gene Tierney and Jacqueline Kennedy to name a few.

THE COMING SOVIET CRASH by Judy Shelton (The Free Press: $9.95). Shelton cautions that perestroika may help camouflage U.S. financing of future Soviet military hardware.

INDIAN SURVIVAL ON THE CALIFORNIA FRONTIER by Albert L. Hurtado (Yale: $11.95). Historical overview of North American Indians during the period of California’s settlement by whites.

THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS by Donald A. Norman (Doubleday: $12.95). Electrical engineer and psychologist discusses correlations and incongruities between design and usage.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

THE WHOLE BASEBALL CATALOGUE: The Ultimate Guide to the Baseball Marketplace, edited by John Thorn and Bob Carroll (Fireside: $17.95). Guide to goods and services of all things baseball: batting cages, clubs, fantasy camps and where you write to complain . . .

MAKING VEGETABLES GROW by Thalassa Cruso (Lyons & Burford: $12.95). Author of “Making Things Grow� concentrates her practical advice on such matters as soil and care strategies for vegetables.

THE NATIONAL GARDENING ASSOCIATION GUIDE TO KIDS’ GARDENING by Lynn Ocone with Eve Pranis (John Wiley & Sons: $9.95). Designed to help teachers, parents and youth leaders to encourage motivation, responsibility and leadership in youngsters through gardening.