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What's more American than a couple of crooning cowpokes who fell in love and lived the dream of having their own TV show and a horse named Trigger? Happy Trails (Simon & Schuster) is the story of ROY ROGERS and DALE EVANS, penned with the help of another pair of American icons, JANE and MICHAEL STERN.

Also this month: TOBIAS WOLFF'SIn Pharaoh's Army (Knopf) is the former Green Beret and acclaimed writer's account of his tour of duty in Vietnam. Sinister reform schools take a whack in PETER HOEG'S moody new novel, Borderliners (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). They had it, they worked it, they lived it: Diana Vreeland, Coco Chanel, and 12 other trendsetting women who tilted the axis the world of style turns on are featured in ANNETTE TAPERT and DIANA EDKINS'SThe Power of Style (Crown). BILL GEIST salutes the spirit of American entrepreneurship in Monster Trucks & Hair-in-a-Can (Putnam). If you're a guy who wears suspenders and needs some pointers on how to score with strangers, look no further than LARRY KING'SHow to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere (Crown). A 16th-century lass quivers in fright in GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER'S historical novel The Candlemass Road (HarperCollins). ELISABETH MAXWELL'SA Mind of My Own (HarperCollins) details her life with her husband, Robert Maxwell. MARY TRASKO'SDaring Do's (Abbeville) combs the history of hairdressing. RANDALL ROTHENBERG peers into the soul of the advertising industry in Where the Suckers Moon (Knopf). And sensuous photographs that at times make the human form look good enough to eat are the main course of WILLIAM EWING'SThe Body (Chronicle). Only seven more months to swimsuit season!

ELISSA SCHAPPELL