Fans of The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard, will be pleased to hear she has a new book out called - The Story of Stuff: How our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health - and a vision for change.  The 300 page book ... Read More

Bob Dylan is moving into children's books. Sterling Children's Books will be publishing a picture book edition of Dylan's classic song, "Man Gave Names to All the Animals."    Artist Jim Arnosky, inspired by the vibrancy of Dylan's lyrics, created the illustrations for the book. "From the first time I heard ... Read More

As if she wasn't already animated enough, Lady Gaga has been imortalized as a comic book character in an exclusive not-quite graphic novel being sold at Marc Jacobs retail stores. The Brian Einersen illustrated comic stands as Gaga's second collaboration with the prodigious fashion designer Marc Jacobs after the two ... Read More

She married Marilyn Manson, and the beauty mark on her face is artificial. But we won't hold that against Dita Von Teese. The buxom burlesque beauty, who often performs in a giant champagne glass, tonight will sign copies of Dita: Stripteese, a series of three flipbooks that highlights some of ... Read More

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind will be published on September 29th!  Here is a little information about the book: "William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, Africa, a country plagued by AIDS and poverty. Like most people in his village, his family subsisted on the meager crops they could grow, living ... Read More

A selection of the world’s most compelling graphic novelists and comic artists are to collaborate with experimental youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift, to create a limited edition comic book Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption which aims to highlight corruption as both the cause of poverty and a barrier to overcoming it. Comprising original work ... Read More

Carl Reiner, an American writer, producer, comedian, and director, has written two books that will be released next month. Reiner, 87, is a 12-time Emmy Award winner who has written, directed, or starred in “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “The Jerk,” “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid,” and the “Ocean’s Eleven” ... Read More

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. As written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss, and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, the novel ... Read More

Dr. Thompson’s husband, a surgeon in Los Angeles, finds a manuscript in her study. It is an extraordinary chronicle written in English and translated in six other languages by an alien from a distant planet, Tajri, in the Milky Way Galaxy.  The chronicle unfolds the story of the alien’s journey ... Read More

Kids get the key to hours of fun and entertainment with Hannah Montana Secrets Unlocked Online, new this spring from Reader’s Digest. Fans will covet the collectible charm with secret password that comes with the book. It enables readers to access a special website, that’s chock-full of fun online activities. Kids ... Read More