entertainment - "book"

For all the ways movies consume us, it's rare to find good, serious writing that analyzes our relationship to them. Anthony Giardina's three books do just that.

I recommend Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, not because Obama is a presidential candidate, but because as a human being he tells his story so earnestly and movingly that a person learns about himself/herself through this book and about the society she/he lives in.

LOS ANGELES - Demi Lovato recalls with delight "my first - and my only! - fan mob scene." The 15-year-old had dropped by a friend's autograph session at a Disney Studios event to say hi when suddenly a little girl shrieked her name. Within seconds, hundreds of kids clutching pens and autograph books had surrounded her.

Bob Powers creates an adventure book for adults who are scared of making choices: 'You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero.'

Bryant Park Project book Club host Sarah Goodyear introduces the BPP's new selection: 'Petropolis,' by Anya Ulinich.

South African President Thabo Mbeki leaves office next year. Co-host Renee Montagne talks to Mark Gevisser, writer and former journalist, about Mbeki's accomplishments and failures since coming to power in 1999. Gevisser authored the book, Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred, which will be published in the United States next year.

The mystery is solved: Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by Simon & Schuster with a first printing of 350,000, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

It's not always easy to put into words the importance of the loving bond between father and child. Use these children?s pictures books, which celebrate that bond, to recognize the...

New york (AP) -- Meghan McCain, daughter of the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee, is working on a picture book about her father, Sen. John McCain....

The Seattle P-I's book critic picks his annual best books for summer reading, with three selections in each of six categories. Several of the authors will be coming to Seattle to discuss their books.