BOOK NOTES

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WEEK TO NOTE. This week marks the American Booksellers Association's second annual National Independent Bookstore Week, which gives booksellers nationwide an opportunity to communicate their individuality and diversity and to underscore their value and commitment to the communities they serve. This year's theme is "Building Community Foundations," and it will be observed by participating bookstores in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International. For more information, write the ABA at 828 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, N.Y., 10591, or call 1-800-637-0037.

FIGHTING ON THE JAMES. An account of military action on the James River before and during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862 is the latest volume in the Virginia Civil War Battles and Leaders series published by H.E. Howard of Lynchburg. "River of Lost Opportunities: The Civil War on The James River, 1861-1862" (illustrations, 202 pages, $19.95) was written by Edwin C. Bearss, who prepared the initial draft of the manuscript in 1961 in connection with the observance of the Civil War Centennial, but then set it aside. Bearss, a leading national authority on the Civil War, recently retired as chief historian for Park Service. He has written on the battles of Five Forks and Second Manassas for the Battles and Leaders series, which now numbers 50 volumes. In "River of Lost Opportunities," Bearss discusses the Confederate fortifications built on the banks of the James, including fortifications on Mulberry Island, Jamestown Island and, just below Richmond, at Drewry's Bluff, where Union gunboats and the ironclad Galena were repulsed. To order a copy, send $23.35 (to include postage, handling and state tax) to H.E. Howard Inc., P.O. Box 4161, Lynchburg 24502, or call 846-1146.

ARMIES MARCHED, LIFE WENT ON. The history of a Virginia county during the Civil War is the subject of a new book by a professor of history at the University of Arkansas. Daniel Sutherland focuses his attention on Culpeper County, whose citizens strongly sympathized with the Confederacy but whose land (situated between the Rapidan and Rappahannock rivers) was repeatedly occupied by Union forces. No major battles took place in Culpeper, and Sutherland's book reports on the everyday life of county citizens. It is "Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Confederate Community, 1861-1865" (Free Press, 400 pages, $24.50).

SCI-CON AT VA. BEACH. The Hampton Roads Science Fiction Association (HaRoSFA) will stage the SCI-CON, Tidewater's oldest and largest science fiction convention, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Sheraton Ocean Front Inn in Virginia Beach. Among the noted sci-fi writers and illustrators scheduled to attend are Ann Crispin, a "Star Trek" novelist; John Kessel, author of "Good News from Outer Space"; Larry Bond, techno-thriller writer and game designer, and Mark Poole, artist for the card game "Magic - The Gathering." Activities include film showings, panels, games, an art show, costume contest, etc. Convention membership is $25. For additional information, call 865-1407 or 826-4854.

MARLOWE RECREATES POE. Stephen Marlowe, a 1949 graduate of William and Mary who was the first writer in residence at the college, has written a novel about Edgar Allen Poe that combines the traditions of historical biography and magic realism. His book is "The Lighthouse at The End of The World" (Dutton, 324 pages, $23.95). In it Marlowe takes up on the unexplained absence of several days in Poe's life and extends and transforms the themes of absence and disappointment in Poe's life until he crafts an alternate universe where Poe might have consulted with his own literary creation, the Chevalier C. August Dupin. While Marlowe was on the W&M; campus for the 1974-75 academic year, his book "The Cawthorn Journals" was published. More recently he received international recognition for "The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus." He lived in Paris until moving recently to Connecticut.

SUSPENSE IN A SLAUGHTERHOUSE. Jeffery Deaver, who lives in Clifton in Fairfax County, has published his eighth suspense novel, "A Maiden's Grave" (Viking, 422 pages, $22.95), in which three escaped inmates from a federal prison hold 12 persons hostage in an abandoned slaughterhouse in Kansas. Deaver has twice been nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for mysteries.

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