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Cash-strapped MGM may have put the 23rd Bond movie on ice, but 007 fans needn’t despair. A new novel featuring the world’s most famous secret agent will be launched in 2011.

Yet another TV star has been bitten by the writing bug. The Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee’s debut book I Know I Am, But What Are You? will be launched on June 1, 2010.

There’s something special on the menu for fans of Anthony Bourdain this summer. The author of the bestselling Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly book and the three-time Emmy-nominated host of No Reservations is coming out with a new book in June 2010.

Lisbeth Salander could well be poster girl of Swedish crime fiction. The social punk, described as “mentally incompetent” by the Swedish government, is an unlikely heroine. She’s a loner, she has a dragon tattoo on her neck, a photographic memory and rides a Kawasaki.

President Obama’s report card – The Promise – releases May 18

HarperCollins will release Sarah Palin’s new book America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag on November 23, 2010.

Supermodel Tyra Banks pens fantasy fiction series

Angelina Jolie’s unauthorized biography releases Aug. 3; written by Andrew Morton who also wrote celebrity biographies of Tom Cruise, Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky

John Grisham’s new book for kids releases on May 25, 2010

Nancy Drew returns as eco-detective in Seeing Green