entertainment - "book"

Michael Corbett's career has taken many unique twists and turns, all of which began with him appearing on Broadway (or Broadway bound) in shows like NEFERTITI, GREASE, MATINEE KIDS and COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA. On Monday night, June 23rd on CNN, his many worlds will collide when he appears as the featured guest on Larry King Live (check local listings for times) to discuss both his career, and his new best selling book - Ready, Set, Sold!: The Insider Secrets to Sell Your House Fast--for Top Dollar!

'You know that Genghis Khan is one of the most unpopular names in Russia," says filmmaker Sergei Bodrov. "We Russians spent 250 years under Mongolian rule, so we still blame Mongols for all our problems. I read about Genghis Khan, of course, in my school books, and he is portrayed very badly. He is an evil warmonger, and so on.

Greedy millionaires who will stop at nothing to enrich themselves! Wads of hundred-dollar bills stuffed into paper bags! Intrepid investigators risking their lives to unearth the truth! Glorious sex! Good triumphing over evil! All this, and a sobering moral lesson to make our lives richer and more meaningful. Unfortunately, no such plot elements are in this book on corporate malfeasance by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. Because this is real life, not a novel.

'Chasing Vermeer,' dubbed a 'Da Vinci Code for tweens,' made Blue Balliett a best-selling children's author known for brainy art mysteries. In 'The Calder Game,' she explores an ancient village, a missing boy and a contentious sculpture.

The winners of the 2008 Boston Globe?Horn book Awards for Excellence in Children?s Literature are:Nonfiction: The Wall by Peter Sís (Foster/Farrar)Fiction and Poetry: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time...

Here's a classic character of comic-book lore who loves to smash and destroy everything. And sure enough, the game lets you do exactly that.

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Summer is a season that demands a certain kind of book. It's a time for beach reads, they say, not for 'Finnegans Wake' or 'Gravity's Rainbow.' You don't have to work the book. The book works you.