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THE LIAR'S CLUB Mary Karr (Viking, $22.95) In spite of its grimness, poet Karr's straight-from-the-hip memoir of growing up as the child of dysfunctional alcoholics in Texas during the '60s shouldn't be missed -- as dramatic and riveting as the finest fiction.
PRACTICAL MAGIC Alice Hoffman (Putnam, $22.95) While on vacation, take a trip of the imagination with Hoffman's latest magic-realism romp about a pair of orphaned sisters with unusual powers. Ghosts, spells, and miracles -- oh my!
THE MEMBER-GUEST Clint McCown (Doubleday, $20) The quirky denizens and employees of a backwater country club cope with rancid clams, stolen golf carts, and a dead dog, among other things, in these 10 amusing, and moving, tales.
