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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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Best-sellers

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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Book review: Poitier explores potential for good in debut thriller

Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier’s first novel, "Montaro Caine," is a corporate thriller that veers into science fiction as it follows a beleaguered New York CEO on an unexpected quest.
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Book review: Chapel Hill author’s spicy novel appeals to Duran Duran fans

Write what you know, the saying goes. Chapel Hill author Karen Booth knows the music industry from having worked for record companies (including Mammoth Records during its 1990s heyday), and she knows about being a fan of ’80s new-wave heartthrobs Duran Duran from having been a teenage girl...
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Book review: Atheist calls for abolishing religion

Brit scholar A.C. Grayling says religion is nothing but a plague and a curse. He advocates for a society based on secular humanism, with no hang-ups about abortion, euthanasia and legalized prostitution.
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Literary notes

Some authors will visit Triangle bookstores this week.
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Short Takes: Book reviews, in brief

‘Seduction: a Novel of Suspense’ by M.J. Rose and ‘Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic’ by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.
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N.C. authors writing books of fact and fancy

A fanciful novel, two memoirs and an exploration of modern domesticity are among new books from N.C. authors.
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Book review: ‘The Last Gun’ by Tom Diaz

New book looks at ‘how changes in the gun industry are killing Americans and what it will take to stop it.’
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Noteworthy paperbacks

The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz. (Norton) The top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. This disparity, Stiglitz argues, isn’t the result of uncontrollable technological and social change; it stems from the unrestrained power of well-heeled...