SPOKANE, Wash. Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina" reached bookstores Monday amid fears that the book about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride might lead to violence and threats. But the author said she had received no threats and was spending the day quietly, except for talking to reporters and being photographed.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden Human rights activists from China and Russia are considered front-runners to win the Nobel Peace Prize next week, while bettors are putting their money on an Italian, a Syrian or an Israeli for the literature award.

ATLANTA A lawsuit involving the three surviving children of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is threatening to derail a $1.4 million deal for a book on their mother.

LONDON Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride made a brief court appearance Friday after being charged with plotting to damage the offices of Gibson Square publishers.

LONDON Three men charged with plotting to attack the publisher of a novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives made a brief court appearance Friday and were returned to custody.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden The 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature will be presented on Oct. 9, the Swedish Academy said Friday, completing the schedule of this year's Nobel announcements.

NEW YORK With British publication in doubt for Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina," the U.S. publisher of her controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad has moved up the release date from Oct. 15 to Monday.

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Anne Shirley, the main character in L. M. Montgomery's acclaimed novel "Anne of Green Gables," is introduced to readers as a sad figure, an orphan without a person in the world who loves her. Despite her lonely introduction, Anne has captured the hearts of generations of young women.

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 27, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

G.I. Joe is marching back onto the comics scene under a new publisher.

LOS ANGELES Gruesome it may be to ponder, but it is a matter of fact that Mary, Queen of Scots, lost her head on Feb. 8, 1587.

When my younger daughter and I were in Disney World earlier this year, we jokingly spoke to each other in our broken Italian - as if to fit in with the cacophony of different languages being spoken in our midst.

MINNEAPOLIS Chris Deutsch, a tech-savvy Minneapolis real estate agent, loves the mini-size netbook computer, but Shane O'Gorman, his counterpart in Eau Claire, Wis., doesn't.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United States is too insular and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing.

LONDON Plans for the British publication of a controversial novel about a young wife of the Prophet Muhammad are stalled following a fire at the publisher's London office, a sales representative for the company was quoted Tuesday as saying.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. More than 31,000 Americans will have a hand in publishing a new edition of the Bible.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Christian book publisher Zondervan says their next edition of the Bible will be handwritten...by more than 31,000 Americans.

NEW YORK The U.S. publisher of a controversial novel about the prophet Muhammad closed its offices as a "precautionary action," but emphasized that no threats had been received and that "The Jewel of Medina" would be released as planned.

WASHINGTON First lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna took a lesson from their own book Saturday at the National Book Festival.

NEW YORK Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, is working on a memoir about his triumphs in space and the hard times back on Earth.

WASHINGTON Children's book author Jon Scieszka enlightened a National Book Festival audience Friday night with stories about how he learned to read funny books by Dr. Seuss and strange books at school about an "alien" family.

The wordless cartoons of Sergio Aragones have appeared in virtually every issue of Mad magazine since 1963.

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KEY WEST, Fla. The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere.

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Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, Sept. 20, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

NEW YORK The crisis on Wall Street has been good for books about financial disasters.

NEW YORK "Pan's Labyrinth" director Guillermo del Toro is collaborating with crime author Chuck Hogan on a trilogy of vampire novels, starting next summer with "The Strain."

WASHINGTON After leaving the White House, the nation's "reader in chief," Laura Bush, plans to continue promoting literacy through the United Nations and the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas.

NEW YORK Alec Baldwin, at a bookstore event he says he didn't want to attend, gave a fired up talk Tuesday night about a book he says he didn't want to write.

NEW YORK When Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was published in 2004, readers were captivated by the story of 1940s French life under German occupation. It was a story the author lived as she was writing it; Nemirovsky was arrested in 1942 and died at Auschwitz.

SAN FRANCISCO Alec Baldwin blamed the bitter custody battle between him and ex-wife Kim Basinger in part for the anger and frustration he was feeling when he berated his daughter in a phone message leaked to the media last year.