LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) – Waterman Entertainment has acquired the rights to the Marvel comic book series “Strikeforce: Morituri,” the company announced Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates will pen two forthcoming books — firstly a memoir expected to be released in 2013 and another about his philosophy on leadership, his publisher said on …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Zynga Inc, the top social games publisher on Facebook, is buying a Toronto-based mobile applications developer, in a move that could help it expand beyond the social network.
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has a book deal.
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Sheila Bair, a key government official during the 2008 financial crisis, has a book deal.
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“Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer” (Broadway Books), by David Roberts: Those with a soft spot for adventuresome romantics will find it difficult not to be beguiled by …

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) – Had enough of Casey Anthony for a while? If so, that’s a shame, because she’s coming to your local bookstore.

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“Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time” (Dutton), by Mark Adams: Mark Adams’ decision to finally seek adventure has paid off big-time for readers in “Turn Right at …

“Payback at Morning Peak” (Pocket Books), by Gene Hackman: While some of his fellow actors were busy writing memoirs, Gene Hackman was working on his first solo novel. We know from movies like “Unforgiven” and …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eight year-old Mustafa Akyol was looking at a book in his grandfather’s library when he saw something that shocked him: a passage advising parents to beat impious children.

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) – The book club gals are either going to love this movie or hate it. The rest of us will simply utter a big collective “Meh.”
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Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of The Wall Street Journal’s publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal with apologies …

George R.R. Martin was 15 minutes early for his in-person appearance, and not a moment too soon.

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“The Triple Agent” (Doubleday), by Joby Warrick: When I first learned the title of a new book that details a botched CIA operation in Afghanistan that claimed the lives of seven agency employees, I worried …