The ubiquitous pink ribbon is intended to symbolize support for finding the cure for breast cancer. The pink ribbon gracing the cover of “After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors” hints at a different meaning.

Every school kid in America knows that superheroes are different: Superman is a supernatural creature from another planet. By contrast, Batman is a mortal man who achieved his prowess through hard training, preparation and high-tech gadgets.

In the time after the failed Munich Beer Hall putsch, his short-lived imprisonment, and the writing and publication of Mein Kampf, but before his appointment as chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler was summoned as a prosecution witness by lawyer Hans Litten in the trial of four storm troopers.

Most Americans have long pictured Arab leaders as military dictators like Saddam Hussein or religious fanatics like Osama Bin Laden. This image, useful to advocates of a U.S. foreign policy hostile to Arab interests, will be challenged by this book by an experienced and perspicacious Jordanian diplomat.

Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, June 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

"Black Hills" by Nora Roberts; Putnam (2009), 472 pages, $26.95 (hardcover)

Less than half of U.S. consumers (45 percent) know about netbook computers, and only 28 percent can think of a reason to buy one, according to the results of a study released Tuesday by TNS, a market research group.

-"The Glister," by John Burnside; Nan A. Talese (240 pages, $22.95)

-"Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male," edited by Elijah Anderson; University of Pennsylvania Press (296 pages, $24.95)

As we approach the 4th of July weekend, we prepare to celebrate our many precious freedoms - two of those essential ones being freedom of speech and expression.

PHILADELPHIA - Patrolman Keith Gilman's longtime dream of becoming a mystery novelist was nurtured in the few spare moments he could steal away.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Outside, it's May.

Can't afford to collect cars? You might be able to swing a few book on your favorite marques. And, with summer here, a hammock and a fresh, new car book seem like the perfect match. Let's take a few new books out for a spin.

Get your history on with a new cookbook from chef and restaurateur Walter Staib.