Lizzie McGuire actress Hilary Duff has jumped on the literary bandwagon. Joining other female celebrities who’ve signed book deals, Hilary Duff is all set to write a young adult romance and adventure series.
The first black woman to hold the office of the United States Secretary of State is set to release her first book – not about her years spent at the White House, but her growing-up years against the backdrop of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama.
Little Brown Books For Young Readers, the publishers behind the Twilight series, are planning to bring out five books based on the hit US television series, Glee. Little Brown and the creative team behind the Glee TV series will collaborate on the Glee novels.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela’s new book Conversations With Myself, a collection of diaries, journals and other personal documents, will be released on October 12, 2010.
The passion and romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is the focus of Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century, which is slated for a June 15, 2010, release.The book has been written by Sam Kashner, contributing editor of Vanity Fair, and Nancy Schoenberger.
Fifteen years after his death, the last work by Jewish-American novelist Henry Roth will be released. An American Type, said to be an autobiographical novel about growing up and falling in love, will be launched on June 7, 2010.
Fans of Marley & Me and Rescuing Sprite are sure to love this canine tale of love and life. Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love, the true story of an abused puppy adopted by a loving family, written by Larry Levin, will be launched in November 2010.
The makers of the Top Chef hit series on the Bravo channel have extended the brand to include an online culinary school, the Top Chef University.
Set in a world taken over by vampires, The Passage, the first in a three-book series by Justin Cronin, will be adapted into a film by director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Robin Hood, Body of Lies).
This is one book that promises to be a super summer read. Alan Furst, declared “an incomparable expert at his game” by the New York Times, is coming out with an exciting new book, Spies of the Balkans.