entertainment - "book"

A Florida plastic surgeon has authored My Beautiful Mommy, a picture book due out April 28 that tries to calm the fears of kids ...

AP - 'The Finder'' (Sara Crichton Books, 336 pages, $25), by Collin Harrison: Harrison, whose past offerings such as 'Manhattan Nocturne' and 'The Havana Room' have offered well-plotted, intense mysteries, serves up a less satisfying and much gorier story this time.

Can’t decide what to get that surgically enhanced woman for Mother’s Day? How about a book that will help them explain to their children — why they look like a freak?From ‘My Beautiful Mommy:’ A girl accompanies mom on a cosmetic surgery consultation. Mom explains she’ll soon be ‘prettier,’ and shows where the bandages [...]

Journalist Misha Glenny points out that while globalization may have given the world new opportunities for trade and investments, it also gave rise to global black markets and made it easier for criminal networks to do business. Glenny discusses his new book, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld.

Bering Straits crab fishermen Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand appear on the Discovery Channel's The Deadliest Catch and have just released a book about their adventures called Time Bandits.

Exclusives: 'Heroes' star to create comicbook miniseries -- 'Heroes' regular Milo Ventimiglia has a new role: comicbook star. Through their Divide Pictures shingle, the thesp and producing partner Russ Cundiff have inked a deal with Devil's Due Publishing to create 'Rest,' a comicbook miniseries to be published in the fall.

It's been said that revenge is a dish best served cold. The Pittsburgh Penguins seemed to have little use for that proverb in their opening-round series against the Ottawa Senators. Last year, the Penguins made it back to the playoffs for the firs...

Front Page: Majors in hot pursuit of new scripts -- Feature development execs were bracing for a deluge of feature spec scripts to flood the market after the 100-day writers strike wrapped in mid-February.

Publishing News: Author attempts to stop fan-written 'Potter' book -- A three-day trial over an unauthorized Harry Potter encyclopedia ended Wednesday with a flash of anger from J.K. Rowling.

Book-It Repertory Theatre's adaptation of 'The Highest Tide,' Olympia writer Jim Lynch's novel about ordinary and extraordinary life at the southern extreme of the Puget Sound, opens Friday night.