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A hammock and a fresh, new car book seem like the perfect match. Let's take a few new books out for a spin. "Dean Jeffries: 50 Fabulous Years in Hot Rods, Racing & Film" by Tom Cotter; Motorbooks (192 pages, $40). His cars - including the Monkeemobile, the Green Hornet's Black Beauty, James Bond's moon buggy and the wild Mantaray - peppered popular culture for decades.

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