Financial crisis spurs interest in business and cooking books

In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, more and more people are picking up business books. In hot demand is anything from “Finance for Dummies” and historical recounts of previous financial crises...

The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008

One of the most interesting books of 2008. The secrets and behind scenes in White House, the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies, the State Department, and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, is going to be...

'Three Cups of Tea' Promotes Peace, Climbs Bestseller List

A K2 climber's promise to repay Pakistani villagers for sheltering him results in the impoverished town’s first school. The project grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed...

THE PAGAN CHRIST (Update)

A documentary is underway to disprove the bible and the existance of Jesus Christ.   Perhaps it is all a myth, perhaps if found true, this may also disprove Jesus's other religious imaginary friends such...

Romantics sue Guitar Hero publisher

A lot of kids are going to be upset about this if it means Santa's stock of Guitar Hero runs dry."Imitation might be flattery, but that doesn't make the Romantics any happier about it. The Detroit rock band has...

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer Rises on Bestseller Lists

With a first printing of 1 million copies, "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer is now at No. 2 on Amazon’s bestseller list. The novel, which was released earlier this week, is the third book in Meyer’s vampire...

Why Harry Potter Won't be a Bestseller

"Wanna make some easy money? Tell your friends you don't think Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will debut at #1 on The New York Times Bestseller List. Heck, you don't think it will even make the Top Ten! Then give them ten to one odds.Huh? The book that will probably set...

What the final Harry Potter novel means for Vancouver’s Raincoast Books

"Vancouver’s Raincoast Books keeps its offices over a 44,000-square-foot warehouse on the banks of the Fraser River. As the Canadian publisher and distributor of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, the...

Death Needs A Mop

"In his top-of-the-heap book, Markus Zusak gives all you would expect in a novel about wartime Germany. But his trick is to make Death his narrator, writes Marianne Brace HOW do you write a fresh story about the Holocaust? Australian novelist Markus Zusak has cracked it with...

Robert Pirsig Grants Rare Interview

"The Seventies bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was the biggest-selling philosophy book ever. But for the reclusive author life was bitter-sweet. Here, he talks frankly about anxiety, depression, the death of his son and the road trip that inspired a...

Richard Dawkins: 'The Root of All Evil -The God Delusion' (Video)

From "The Root of All Evil?":Richard Dawkins describes his astonishment that, at the start of the 21st century, religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth. Science, based on...

On the Set of, "Evening" Starring Claire Danes Filming Today in New York City...

Focus Features is currently in production of a feature film entitled, "Evening" based on Susan Minot's bestseller and adapted by Michael Cunningham. Directed by Lajos Koltai, the movie co-stars Glenn Close, Meryl...

Chavez Book Tour

"Is this guy brilliant or what....he starts his speech promoting Chomsky, exhorting the UN delegates to read this book and just keeps on pushing Chomsky on the press....forget Bush is the Devil....the headlines should have been...Read Chomsky. The result is.... Chavez UN...

What's So Funny About "The Da Vinci Code"?

"an Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" is a monumental worldwide phenomenon that has been called the most important book in decades. With more than 60.5 million copies in print, it has been a fixture on bestseller lists virtually non-stop since it was released by Doubleday in 2003....

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