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Damian Lewis has been pictured wearing a frock coat and thigh-high leather boots for his latest role - as King Henry VIII.

Brace yourselves, nineties kids. Bloomsbury have gone and changed the covers of the Harry Potter books.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his last starring role, plays a German spymaster attempting to recruit a suspected Muslim terrorist in this adaptation of a novel by John le CarrA©.

The young adult novel by Lois Duncan centers on Kit, a new student at Blackwood Boarding School: "It is the opportunity of a lifetime, but Kit quickly realizes something strange is happening behind its walls as she confronts the darkly seductive powers of Blackwood's headmistress and comes face to face with the supernatural powers that could make ... (more)

When the muggles who live in this neighborhood on the west side of Missoula, MT talk about their subdivision, they don't call it by its given name, Windsor Park.

'Make Way for Ducklings' and 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret' were two of the titles that made Amazon's list of '100 Books to Read in a Lifetime, Children's Books Edition.'

At 784 pages, Donna Tartt 's "The Goldfinch " is a hefty chunk of book, the kind that's hard to tote around and read during off times, impossible to lazily prop up on the beach and difficult to casually read on the bus or the train or the whatever.

A meek girl living in the sleepy town of Termonfeckin, Ireland, she'd devoured J.K. Rowling's books, longing to play the quirky teenage-wizard Luna Lovegood.

MOBILE, Alabama - If you haven't seen the free films based on the Holocaust in France, now showing at Spring Hill College, you've got two more chances before the series ends.

U.S regulators may relax rules that require the fastest possible execution of securities trades, potentially helping upstart trading venue IEX Group's plans to become a full-fledged stock exchange.

With the acting industry so full of such hugely talented stars these days, it seems harder than ever before to make a name for yourself in Hollywood , having to compete against such hard-working and dedicated stars.

Continuing its 10th anniversary summer series, Left Bank Books will welcome Elizabeth Strout for a talk and signing Saturday, Aug. 9, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the First Church of Belfast, diagonally across Church Street from Left Bank Books.

Amanda Knief asked the question with a laugh, but liberal fervor for Sen. Elizabeth Warren runs deep, as evidenced by the fans who'd gathered some 90 minutes before the Massachusetts Democrat took the stage in Detroit recently at the nation's largest gathering of liberal activists.

Not just love, but LOVE? A book you love so much you want to marry it? Not just marry it, but renew your vows with it regularly so you can put the photos from the commitment ceremony all over Facebook? Here's what I want to do - put on a white shirt, a polyester tie and a pair of Swedish-knit slacks from Mr. Mac, then slap a nametag on my chest so ... (more)

Looking for books to read to your kids? Amazon editors have put together a children's book edition of its series of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime lists.

Hillary Clinton greets the crowd holding her new book "Hard Choices" at the University of Washington bookstore in Seattle.

Some of my favorite books are intended for younger audiences: the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling; "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton; His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman; and pretty much anything written by Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett.

Elements of villainy in television programs and films have taken over the American psyche.

According to Deadline , RatPac Entertainment and Warner Bros. have finally closed a deal to bring Donna Tartt's best-selling novel THE GOLDFINCH to the big screen.

Record numbers of Australians are sleeping rough as concerns about global inequality rise.