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'Breaking Dawn' fans light up over saga's end

Bella and Edward live happily ever after in Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, but are fans happy, too?

New in paperback

USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer called Bridge of Sighs (Vintage, $14.95, reprint), Richard Russo's novel about love, relationships ...

Book buzz: Franco shows literary side

James Franco, who is getting rave reviews for his stoner turn in Pineapple Express, happily took second billing this week at ...

Roundup: Non-fiction tales of the animal world

Stacey O'Brien's sweet, quirky memoir dedicated to the "man" in her life has one of the more eyebrow-raising subtitles of the ...

Journalist investigates himself in David Carr's 'Gun'

David Carr, the author, journalist and former crack addict, arrives for an interview armed only with iced coffee and a pack of ...

High school or the movies? One dad makes a deal

David Gilmour's 15-year-old son did not just hate school. Gilmour feared he might lose him forever if he forced him to stay in ...

Variety Publishing News

Time Inc. to produce in-house films

Publishing News: Time, Sports Illustrated articles come to life -- Time Inc. Studios, together with management-production company the Collective and XYZ ...

Crooners create comic crime novel

Publishing News: Brooks and Dunn expand into publishing biz -- Don Cook, who produced many of Brooks & Dunn's biggest hits, notes the two are more writing ...

Tune's 'Turn' at Chicago's Goodman

Publishing News: Amy Gross leaves Hearst on her own terms -- The Goodman Theater in Chicago is bowing a new musical. And it's chiefly dependant on three ...

L.A. Times publisher in sight

Publishing News: Publication eyes former DirecTV chief -- Former DirecTV chief Eddy Hartenstein has in fact emerged as the front-runner for the publisherâ€™s ...

L.A. Times unwraps magazine plan

Publishing News: Light touch for monthly lifestyle publication -- Los Angeles Times has formally unveiled its plans for a monthly lifestyle magazine dubbed ...

Will Oprah eat up 'Deceptively Delicious?'

Publishing News: Jessica Seinfeld being sued for plagiarism -- Now that Jessica Seinfeld is back in the tabloids being sued for plagiarism in the matter ...

NY Times Books

Childrenâ€™s Books: The Greatestâ€™s Story, Told Twice

Two handsome new books for different age groups take on the formidable challenge of telling the story of Muhammad Aliâ€™s epic life.

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Childrenâ€™s Books: Earth to Young People: Help!

A â€œfamily encyclopedia of ecologyâ€ and the first book by â€œthe MySpace communityâ€ spell out environmental threats and suggest action to help.

Childrenâ€™s Books: When We Last Saw Our Heroes ...

Sequels to the popular childrenâ€™s books â€œNot a Box,â€ â€œZen Shortsâ€ and â€œLittle Peaâ€ â€” plus the latest in Mo Willemsâ€™s â€œPigeonâ€ series.

Childrenâ€™s Books: Cracking the Comics Code

In the â€œFog Moundâ€ series, the story unfolds in alternating chapters of prose and comics â€” a major advance in tricking children into reading.

Childrenâ€™s Books: Something Wild

The girls in â€œAfter Tupac and D Fosterâ€ and â€œThe Wild Girlsâ€ encourage one another to tramp through the woods, or take a secret train trip to the ...

Childrenâ€™s Books: Map of Dreams

After forty-five years as a childrenâ€™s author, Uri Shulevitz now gives us his first explicitly autobiographical story. It is a masterpiece.

Yahoo Books

Memoir about Liberia is new Starbucks pick (AP)

AP - Helene Cooper's "The House at Sugar Beach," a memoir about growing up in Liberia during that country's civil war, is the latest book selected by Starbucks ...

USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS (AP)

AP - Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS (AP)

AP - 1. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

British playwright Simon Gray dead at 71 (AP)

AP - British writer Simon Gray, author of literate, bittersweet plays and acerbic diaries, has died at 71, his publisher said Thursday.

Book defends use of mercenaries (AP)

AP - "Highway to Hell Â— Dispatches From a Mercenary in Iraq" (Broadway Books 273 pages, $24.95), by John Geddes: It's a chatty British page-turner that ...

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