Books

Reading to a child is essential to their growth, and most children's books address similar topics of sharing, accepting who you are and eating your vegetables. We found some gems from the children's literature department, though, that made us pause and say WHAT?!?!

Sometimes, it's all too easy for an illustrator or a cover artist who has hit a huge creative block to use a picture of a celebrity as their guide for young adult novels. Plus, the celebrity lookalikes will help sales too, especially if it's a popular actress such as 'Game of Thrones' star Emilia Clarke...

This Valentine’s Day, millions will cuddle up with their cats and a box of Dove bars and sink into a juicy romance novel. Wouldn’t it be far more interesting if romance novels contained the complexity, suspense and intrigue of our favorite TV shows and movies? Below, our noblest attempts at visual fan fiction. If these pop culture novels were real, they'd go straight to our Kindles so no one could

About a year ago, celebrity chef Paula Deen told us that she had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Paula has spent the last year working on getting healthy. She has opened up to People magazine about how the big life changes she has made.

While at Sundance to premiere his new film, it's been announced that writer and director James Ponsoldt will write and direct the upcoming big screen adaptation of the young adult fiction novel 'Pure.'

Getting books from the library is about to get a whole lot e-sier.

We all remember the beloved book series 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' which spawned a tv series, a movie and 'The Baby-Sitters Little Sister' book series. But did you know that the series was based on another book about baby sitting? Or that the author, Ann M. Martin, was a freelance author at the time Scholastic published it? If not, read more to get the best up-to-date facts about this beloved series

2013 is gearing up to have some great movie releases, some of which include the usual book-to-movie adaptions. Yet with allgreat new book to movie adaptions coming out, it can be difficult to figure out which one to spend $10 at the theater on, especially if you are not sure if it will wind up being a hit like 'Lord of the Rings' or a dude like 'Eragon ...

As we continue to foam at the mouth for the March 31 premiere of HBO's 'Game of Thrones' season 3, most recently from the cryptic three-eyed raven teaser released earlier today, fans of the series take solace in at least one thing. Come hell or "Blackwater," original series creator George R.R. Martin will write one of the episodes from the coming season! But after the season 2 triumph of

Get ready to clutch your pearls -- 'Fifty Shades of Grey' screenwriter Kelly Marcel says that the film adaptation will be as raunchy as the book, which means an NC-17 rating, no doubt.

George R.R. Martin, the author of the Song of Ice and Fire book series, the inspiration for HBO's Game of Thrones has released a new sample chapter from his next novel, The Winds of Winter on January 8, 2013.  The new year brings new fiction from the fantasy master

It seems an avid movie fan or prankster (or time traveler?) decided it would be fun to send a package addressed to one Henry Walton Jones, Jr. (aka Indiana Jones) at the University of Chicago. So what the heck is in this mysterious package and where did it actually come from?