entertainment - "book"

AP - Pagans and druids, mark your calendars and book your airplane tickets. An Australian entrepreneur hopes to open a Stonehenge replica by the Dec. 21 solstice, just in time for New Age revelers.

Independent bookstores are struggling to stay in business. Borders is in need of a new owner.But Quirk Books, an Old City publisher of irreverent nonfiction, isn't worrying about where you'll find its latest title. It's right there next to the trendy jeans at Urban Outfitters, and not far from the DVDs at Target.

J.K. Rowling has retired Harry Potter, but the fictional boy wizard lives in on college classes across the country where the children's books are embraced as literary and academic texts.

Front Page: Musical adaptation set for summer -- The long-developing tuner adaptation of 'A Tale of Two Cities' comes to Gotham this summer, with the $12 million production booking the Hirschfeld Theater for a Rialto run that begins in August.

Comic books -- or, in more highbrow parlance, graphic novelizations -- are nudging their way onto the shelves of bookstores and the pages of literary magazines. And writers such as Joss Whedon and Jodi Picoult are trying their hand at the genre.

International News: Duo developing feature from DePalma book -- Moxie Pictures is teaming with Killer Pictures to develop a feature from 'The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba and Herbert Matthews of the new york Times.'

Vivian Cherry is nearly 90, but her career is blooming with the publication of her first book.

Exclusives: Studios show interest in Tillman, Jones' stories -- Hollywood is demonstrating its continued fascination with the Iraq war through three deals in the works on the subject. Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures will develop a movie based on ABC News chief White House correspondent Martha Raddatz's book 'The Long Road Home.'

Film News: Duo teams with Virgin for comicbook series -- Hugh Jackman and 'Eli Stone' co-creator Marc Guggenheim are teaming with Virgin Comics to create 'Nowhere Man,' an original comicbook series that is designed to be transferred to the bigscreen as a Jackman vehicle.

Meg Wolitzer's new book is a multicharacter meditation on a group of upper-middle-class women, mostly in Manhattan, who have stayed home for a decade to raise their children.