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While your children can learn a lot from Childrens's Books about Elections and Voting, they will learn even more from your example. If you haven't already voted, be sure...

In this sequel to The Mummy Returns, Rick O'Connell and his family awaken an Emperor of ancient China and his terracotta army.

Mark Barrowcliffe's humorous, self-deprecating memoir of his misspent youth, "The Elfish Gene," is another welcome addition to the growing nerdsploitation genre.

This is one of the darkest portrayals of policing since James Ellroy's "L.A. Confidential."

Is there life after Harry Potter? There is for devoted fan Melissa Anelli, who has turned her Potter passion into a new book, ...

Reuters - Comic book publisher Marvel Entertainment Inc posted a quarterly profit that topped estimates, helped by earlier-than-expected box office and DVD revenue from its film "Iron Man."

More than 30 years after documenting a trip through Europe, the Middle East and Asia in The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux re-creates the voyage in Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.

Artists and athletes, celebrities and scribes, the talented and the tainted promiscuously link arms and promenade in this exuberant collection of portraits from the Vanity Fair archives.

Neurologist Carolyn Bernstein, co-author (with journalist Elaine McArdle) of The Migraine Brain, estimates that 30 million Americans suffer from migraines — and that most sufferers don't realize they have the condition.

Carolyn Chute, whose fourth novel, "The School on Heart's Content Road," comes out on Friday, splits time at her rural Maine compound between writing and running her "no-wing" militia.