entertainment - "book"

Author Barbara Ehrenreich talks about her new book, This Land is Their Land, a candid look at American capitalism, the economy and the lives of the working poor.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver is a passionately researched and written book that outlines one family's experiment in local food culture. It is a needed commentary on America's distance from the reality of where food comes from. A focus on local food is good for the environment and the soul. Kingsolver speaks up for [...]

Voice is paramount in first-person essays. David Sedaris's slightly whiny, satirical twang and self-deprecating persona have become familiar and beloved, not just from his books - of which some 7 million copies are in print - but from his radio broadcasts and lecture tours, which fill concert arenas.

In her new book 'The Tonya Tapes,' Harding alleges her husband and two other men raped her at gunpoint and that she was abused by her alcoholic mother.

AP - 'Side Effects: A Bestselling Drug on Trial' (Algonquin Books. 240 pages. $24.95), by Alison Bass: It's hard not to cheer for the little guy in 'Side Effects,' the true story of underdogs who stand up to powerful drug companies and their questionable ethics.

OMAHA, Neb., June 23 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Images of Nature(R) is proud to announce that Thomas D. Mangelsen's latest book 'The Natural World' (ISBN 978-189031042-4) was a winner at the PMA, the Independent book Publishers Association 2008 Benjamin Franklin Awards. The book took top honors in the Coffee Table/Large format category.

Psychiatrist Rivka Galchen's debut novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, is about a man who thinks his wife has been replaced by a fake.

Shah Rukh Khan's TV show participant booked for fraud

While David Guterson has created an engaging enough voice for his narrator, Neil Countryman, much of his novel feels derivative and overly familiar.

Best known for his novel The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greer explores the hidden secrets of one suburban, 1950s couple in his new book, The Story of a Marriage.