This week's literary banquet includes:
* Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter, by Sidney Poitier (HarperOne, $25.95). Recounts the actor's influential life and career.
* A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin's, $24.95). From the author of way too many memoirs for someone his age; this one explores his horrendous relationship (if you want to call it that) with his father.
* Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman, by Mary Tillman (Modern Times, $25.95). The account by his mother of the former NFL player's controversial death by friendly fire in Afghanistan.
* Sundays at Tiffany's, by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet (Little, Brown, $24.99). Follows a lonely woman who is reunited with a childhood love.
* The Lady Elizabeth, by Alison Weir (Ballantine, $25). For those whose interest has been whetted by, perhaps, a duo of Cate Blanchett movies, this chronicles the turbulent early life of Queen Elizabeth I.
* Child 44, by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central, $24.99). A former war hero tries to find a serial killer in Stalinist Russia.
* Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation, by Kenneth C. Davis (Collins, $26.95). A trot through lesser-known incidents in American history.
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