Complete books coverage for Sunday, March 1, 2009

In his latest book, “Flying Home,” Eric Kraft adds to his previously published “Taking Off” and “On The Wing” to complete a trilogy about Peter Leroy.

A memoir that looks back - with too much restraint - at the author’s family.

Two Victorian-era literary detective stories use an unfinished Charles Dickens’ novel as their starting-points.

First-ever English translation of Turkish writer’s 1940s masterpiece explores East-West culture clash.

A construction (unsuccessful) of Dorothy’s part in the life and poetry of her brother, William.

Strange circumstances surround this wonderful tale of a New Year’s Eve party thrown at an unfinished apartment building in Buenos Aires.

Candid, insulting, hilarious: a collection of essays sure to offend the faint of heart.

Bodies Susie Orbach Picador: 216 pp., $14 paper We are even more obsessed with the perfection of the physical self than we were when British psychotherapist Susie Orbach’s 1978 classic “Fat Is a Feminist Issue,” was published.

Fiction weeks on list1.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney(Amulet: $12.95) Greg’s dad enlists him in organized sports in order to toughen him up.5 2.The Associate by John Grisham (Doubleday : $27.95) A dark secret forces a law school graduate to take a job at a corrupt law firm that could cost him his life.3 3.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 32 4.Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality.295.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial Press: $22) A writer corresponds with islanders after German occupation.296.The Renegades by T.

Fiction 1. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 2. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 3.

Author and book events for the week of March 1, 2009