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Best-sellers for week ending May 19, 2013

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Speaking Volumes for May 26, 2013

Every Memorial Day we honor the memory of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

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Walter Mosley, getting back on familiar turf

When last we saw Walter Mosley's detective Easy Rawlins, he had just lost control of a car he was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway north of Malibu. This was in the closing pages of the 11th (and apparently final) Rawlins book, "Blonde Faith," published in 2007.

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'Girls of Atomic City' goes behind Manhattan Project scenes

"The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II" by Denise Kiernan; Touchstone Books ($27)

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Julia Sweeney keeps it light, even amid family and personal tragedy

CHICAGO - I had spent all of six minutes with Julia Sweeney when I brought up adult braces.
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The Romance Reader: 'Her Perfect Cowboy'

"Her Perfect Cowboy" by Trish Milburn; Harlequin (2013), 220 pages, $5.50 (paperback)
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'Americanah' tackles challenge of fitting in from Nigerian viewpoint

"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Knopf (496 pages, $26.95)
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How John Roberts helped move the Supreme Court to the right

"The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution" by Marcia Coyle; Simon & Schuster (416 pages, $28)
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'All I Need' is a roller-coaster of romance and reality

"All I Need" by Susane Colasanti; Viking (240 pages, $17.99)
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New Orleans' post-Katrina shift to charter schools

"Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children" by Sarah Carr; Bloomsbury (336 pages, $27)
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Making sense of office life

"The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office" by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan; Twelve (320 pages, $26.99)