entertainment - "book"

Reviewer Alan Cheuse takes a look at Ralph Reed's debut novel, 'Dark Horse,' a book about a fictional presidential race from the former head of the Christian Coalition.

In the third novel in the Virga series, the focus is the Admiral himself, Chaison Fanning who is a prisoner of the nation he defeated in the first book until he is freed. But in the process Chaison gets lost again -- his sense of duty causes him to also help free a couple of other Slipstream natives -- and he and his friends, along with the mysterious 'winter waif' Antaea Argyre, end up in a major city of the enemy Falcon Formation.

Visually, it is a lovely book, the detailed line drawings of Craig Frazier, complementing the whimsical story of Mr. Fooster who goes on walking excursions armed with only his senses and an old bottle of soap with a bubble-making ring. But what bubbles! one becomes a vintage car, another an immense flying bird cage full of tropical fish. Mr. Fooster meets a lost newt, a giant insect, spends a winter as a tree, and meets an isolationist wall-builder.

Legendary rockers LED ZEPPELIN have not booked Wales' Millennium Stadium for a comeback gig, the venue's manager has confirmed. The veteran rockers reformed last year ...

For Mary Jane Clark fans, the most thrilling TV network has to be KEY. The fictional company has some very nasty anchors, producers and correspondents who would do anything ? even murder ? to get what they want.

A book of wizard fairy tales written and illustrated by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is going to be published for charity in December. The book is a collection of five wizarding tales referred to in the Potter series.

AdLit.org, a website about adolescent literacy, features a fascinating video interview with Brian Selznick, the winner of the 2008 Caldecott Medal for his book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. ...

They're not marketing 'American Teen' as a documentary - the posters invoke John Hughes comedies and 'Juno.' It doesn't even necessarily play as a documentary; my screening companion went in cold and, until the closing credits, thought she was watching a mockumentary. But 'American Teen' is a documentary and one very much of our Facebook, text-messaging, reality-TV moment. What it ...

Exclusives: Studio acquires rights to Chris Millis novel -- Before selling the book, author and cartoonist Chris Millis has sold screenplay rights to his novel 'God and California' to Lionsgate.

Yohannes Gebrigiorgis left his comfortable life in California to return to Africa and make life better for kids in Ethiopia