DUTY: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, by Robert M. Gates. Knopf, $35. One of the few Obama administration members who come off well in this frank account - probably one of the best Washington memoirs ever - is Hillary Clinton. OUR AMERICA: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Norton, $27.95. A professor pays rich tribute to the country's Hispanic past, present and future. Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25. Villagers in Sierra Leone face life after war in this novel by the author of "A Long Way Gone." THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and Divided a Country, by Gabriel Sherman. Random House, $28. Sherman's carefully documented study actually is fair and balanced. DANUBIA: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe, by Simon Winder. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30. Winder engagingly describes what is still an unknown world for many people. THE MONKEY'S VOYAGE: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life, by Alan de Queiroz. Basic Books, $27.99. On the ways related species came to inhabit far-flung regions. DEMON CAMP: A Soldier's Exorcism, by Jennifer Percy. Scribner, $26. Percy's first book follows an anguished Army veteran who searches for salvation in a Christian exorcism camp. Ballantine, $26. A lyrical novel of Robert Louis Stevenson's troubled marriage. Harper, $26.99. Maupin's "Tales of the City" concludes with a reunion of the tribe­.