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A few years ago Malcolm Gladwell made the "10,000 hour rule" famous in his book Outliers .

The contemporary master of romance Nicholas Sparks delivers his latest to the big screen with "Safe Haven," now available on Blu-ray/DVD. Julianne Hough plays Katie, a young woman on the run.

What if, just like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day , you could wake up to a fresh and identical development environment completely free of yesterday's experiments and mistakes? Vagrant lets you do exactly that.

Any Harry Potter fan desperate to get their hands on new details of the world of muggles and magic should get themselves down to Sotheby's auction house tomorrow, where a first edition of opening instalment Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone complete with personal notes scribbled into the margins by author JK Rowling after re-reading it is to ... (more)

RENTRAK CORPORATION today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company's Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials tracking services which are based on estimated consumer spending per data collected for the week ending Safe Haven is directed by Oscar-nominee Lasse Hallstrm and based on the best-selling novel by ... (more)

A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale in a charity auction.

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur , an incomplete epic poem on King Arthur, has been edited for publication by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and newly released.

Australian director Baz Luhrmann regrets leaving the opportunity to direct the first edition of "Harry Potter" franchise because he was busy with something else Australian director Baz Luhrmann regrets leaving the opportunity to direct the first edition of "Harry Potter" franchise because he was busy with something else Australian director Baz ... (more)

My adventures in chick lit continue with a novel by Deb Caletti, "He's Gone" that will inevitably be compared with Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel "Gone Girl." Instead of Flynn's missing wife, Caletti deals with Seattle software executive Ian Keller, the missing husband of Dani Keller.

Singer-songwriter Carole King may feel the earth move May 22, one fine day when President Obama hosts a White House concert for this natural woman and presents her with the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song .

'The Host,' the action-adventure romance film adaptation of The New York Times number one bestselling novel of the same name from 'The Twilight Saga' author Stephenie Meyer, is set to be released on home entertainment this summer.

Hyped worldwid e: Dan Brown's Inferno was released with all sorts of gimmicks around the world last Tuesday; in Amsterdam, women dressed as 'plague doctors' presented the book at the Amsterdam Central Station.

Artwork by the man behind the Life of Pi's famous book cover is going on display at a Cambridge gallery.

Conservative religious MPs in Afghanistan blocked legislation today aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience.... The fictional sport of Quidditch was only invented because J.K. Rowling had an argument with her boyfriend, the Harry Potter author has ... (more)

What are some of the most requested books in May at Hamilton-Wenham Library ? Here's a list of the top items from Amy Cadell, the library's Head of Circulation.

Former 30 Rock star Tina Fey is like that cool and wise older sister we always wanted.

The White House says Obama will present the award to Carole King during a concert Wednesday.

What do you get when you meld the whiz-bang, condensed hilarity of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare with the cultural tsunami that is J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter septology? If you find out, let me know, because it is most assuredly not the cumbersomely titled Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience - A Parody by Dan and Jeff.

My wife and I booked a two-bed cabin on the Gustav Af Klint, a beat-up, decommissioned steamship-turned-hostel, because it was a bargain at around $60 a night and in a great location, near Stockholm's Old Town and the metro.

Fans of books about the boy wizard will have a chance to bid on a unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," annotated by the author, at a charity auction this month, the English PEN organization said on Friday.