entertainment - "book"

AP - 'Soccer Dad' (Skyhorse Publishing. 288 pages. $22.95), by W.D. Wetherell: In the first chapter of this loving remembrance of his son's final year of playing soccer on a top-ranked high school team, W.D. Wetherell says he assumes that anyone reading the book 'already understands and values soccer.'

AP - 'Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba' (Viking, 365 pages, $27.95), by Tom Gjelten: Bacardi is the world's top-selling rum with annual sales of 20 million cases in more than 150 countries. But it does not sell a drop in Cuba, where founder Facundo Bacardi first opened a tin-roofed, dirt-floored distillery on Matadero Street in the eastern city of Santiago in 1862.

A former police officer apologises to Sir Salman Rushdie for false claims he made in a book about the author.

The co-author of the popular travel adventure book '100 Things to do Before You Die' has died. Dave Freeman passed away on Aug. 17 after a fall in his Venice home, the 47-year-old writer's father has confirmed.

With thorough reporting and an eye for rich, often quirky detail, Tom Gjelten traces the story of the Bacardi family, whose product helped shape Cuba's soul until Fidel Castro nationalized its company's facilities in 1960.

Writing a first-person book about the last big war in the midst of today's war can be tricky. It could attract older vets thinking back to their days in combat as well as younger readers whose interest is piqued by the fighting today. Or it might just be seen as an irrelevant and perhaps wearying [...]

International News: 'Zohan' excels in Spain -- Comicbook heroes saved the European box office this weekend as 'Hellboy 2: The Golden Army' and 'The Dark Knight' opened top in the U.K. and Germany, respectively.

Sir Salman Rushdie has won his libel claim in the high court against allegations made in a book by a former police bodyguard.The Booker prize-winning author said ...

Mr. Urdang was a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books.

Dr. Thomas Graboys' memoir of dealing with Parkinson's disease stands out as a small wonder.