BOOK NOOK
Sarah Palin finished her book quickly and became a best seller even faster.
After more than 40 best-sellers, James Patterson is just getting started.
In the past nine months, Rod Blagojevich has been charged with trying
to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, impeached and
ousted as Illinois governor.
Three authors who've become publishing franchises –Dan Brown, Mitch
Albom and the late Michael Crichton– top this fall's lineup of books
that promise to be commercial juggernauts.
Recent history titles probe subjects ranging from an Amazon utopia
ruled from afar by Henry Ford to the Bataan Death March to Teddy
Roosevelt to the inside scoop on Queen Victoria's surprisingly frisky
love life.
The first new book about Michael Jackson sanctioned by his estate will
be published Dec. 7, and it promises to be as razzle-dazzling as the
late pop icon himself.
A Swedish author has asked a federal appeals court in New York to let
him publish a book he claims is a parody of J.D. Salinger' s "The
Catcher in the Rye."
It's teen time for "The Secret." Rhonda Byrne's self-help
multimedia phenomenon, which has sold millions of copies, will come out
this fall in an edition for young people. "The Secret to Teen Power"
will be written by Paul Harrington, who produced the DVD version of the
original "Secret."
Although Sophie Kinsella has vowed to continue the best-selling misadventures of Becky Bloomwood with a sixth Shopaholic book, it's probably for the best that she is taking a breather from the credit-crunched crumpet. Indulging frivolous spending habits and glorifying sticker-shock apparel feels too unseemly right now.
Harlequin is feeling like a kid again. The 60-year-old publisher of classic bodice-rippers is rolling out its newest imprint: Harlequin Teen.
McCourt, who had been gravely ill with meningitis, died Sunday afternoon at age 78 of metastatic melanoma, his publisher said.
Addie Downs - the Everygirl at the center of Jennifer Weiner's latest novel - just could turn out to be one of our favorite heroines of the summer.
The 40th anniversary on July 20 of Apollo 11's landing on the moon has launched a shelf's worth of illustrated books for kids, including two by men who walked on the moon. USA TODAY's looks at the lunar lineup.
Lovers of suspense will find no better novel to read this summer than Sworn to Silence, a teeth-chattering debut thriller from romance writer Linda Castillo.
Jack Murnighan, author of Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits (Three Rivers Press, $15, paperback original), explains to USA TODAY why a literary classic is the perfect beach book.
Books have long been a beach staple. Beach reads, they're called.
Mindless prose. Romances. Mysteries. Thrillers.
Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be published again under a new deal with Beacon Press brokered by King's youngest son.
An author who's being sued by J.D. Salinger for copyright infringement
is asking a Manhattan judge to let his book be published.
Challenged by a new digital landscape and a tough economy, booksellers are touting a promising fall lineup.
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