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Cookbook awards season comes to a close with plenty of new volumes to recommend.

Time to stock your shelves with a new cookbook or two. The James Beard Foundation announced its winners May 3 for its annual competition. The International Association of Culinary Professionals also announced their winners recently. Note that there are several overlapping winners from both groups...

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Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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Best-sellers

Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores:
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The Romance Reader: 'The Wyoming Cowboy'

"The Wyoming Cowboy" by Rebecca Winters; Harlequin ($5.50, paperback)
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'Lucky Bastard' by Deborah Coonts is a sure bet

"Lucky Bastard" by Deborah Coonts; Forge ($25.99)
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New book illuminates the pitfalls widows face when returning to the dating scene

I suspect my children will want to see me throw myself on my husband's funeral pyre, the better to tie up all the loose ends.
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Curses, ghosts and miracles enliven 'Kings and Queens of Roam'

"The Kings and Queens of Roam" by Daniel Wallace; Touchstone ($24)
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Words' ancient history

When researchers from England's University of Reading recently announced they had discovered 23 "ultraconserved" words - words, that is, which appear to have come down from an ancestral language 15,000 years old - I couldn't help thinking of John D'Agata and his 2010 book "About a Mountain."
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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. "The back of my car hit something...
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Anthology gives readers the scoop on 'Troubleshooters' series

The shelves in the romance section of bookstores are crowded with tales of former or active Navy SEALs and other special operation forces.
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Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta discuss the magic of 'Midnight's Children'

"Midnight's Children" is Salman Rushdie's sweeping, multigenerational story of the birth of independent India and the life of the big-nosed, big-hearted protagonist, Saleem Sinai.