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SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 4 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Taylor Wilshire, award-winning author of 'The What-If Guy' (ISBN: 0-9778018-02), brings inward and outward balance for moms in her new novel, 'The book of Mom' (ISBN: 978-0-9778018-1-7, Nautilus Press).

In a new book, What Would Martin Say? (Harper), Clarence Jones, scholar in residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King ...

This exciting new footage from the upcoming comic book adaptation will blow your mind!

In what they admit may be a tough sell for a famously modest nation, 18 top Canadian writers are bringing out books about their country's best-known individuals in a series entitled 'Extraordinary Canadians.'

Announcing the selection for next month's BPP book club: The God of Animals, the debut novel by Aryn Kyle, who won the National Magazine Award for her 2004 short story in The Atlantic.

Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis in 1968 rallying for fair treatment and pay of African-American sanitation workers when he was assassinated. American history professor Michael Honey joins Fresh Air to discuss his book on the labor campaign King was leading at the time of his death.

There are three times as many urbanites in America as country folk, yet you wouldn't know it listening to the three main presidential candidates, or perusing their Web sites. Instead, you might come away thinking the United States is a collection of Norman Rockwell small towns surrounded by picture-book farms.

Film News: Denzel Washington rumored to star in thriller -- In its first major material deal made since Mary Parent took over as head of MGM's worldwide motion picture group, the studio beat out Universal and several others for 'The Matarese Circle,' a 1979 book by Robert Ludlum, author of the Bourne series.

Weekly: Booking wars for shows grow more important -- A limo arrives to take a highly sought-after guest to 'Meet the Press.' But the guest is delivered to 'This Week,' which had secretly changed the limo's plans.

Co-editor Joshua Beckman discusses the three-year life of Wave Books, a new poetry publisher based in Seattle, as well as his own bicoastal life.