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MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host and best-selling author Mika Brzezinski and Connecticut author and TV personality Diane Smith , close friends who teamed up to tackle issues of obesity and write about it, will appear in person at an R.J. Julia Booksellers event at the Madison Beach Hotel, 94 West Wharf Rd., Madison. Information: 203-245-1404.

The Amanda Knox story has spawned books that declare her guilt and proclaim her innocence.

Don DeLillo, the celebrated novelist who once complained that as a young writer he “lacked ambition,” has been named the first recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. The new lifetime achievement award, announced Thursday by Librarian of Congress James Billington, will be presented at the 13th annual National Book Festival in September. Read full article >>    

Amanda Knox — charged, convicted and acquitted in an Italian murder, with more to come — reveals her perspective in a memoir.    

Amanda Knox, who was convicted and then acquitted of killing her roommate in Perugia, Italy, wrote a memoir after her release from prison in 2011.    

In today's book news, Mary Higgins Clark is back at No. 1 and World Book Night is ahead.

Plus, gear up for the Pulitzers Monday at 3, and 'Go The F To Sleep' is becoming a movie.

A new publishing category has emerged that spans the chasm between Young Adult and adult

The book from President Obama’s longtime strategist is due out in the fall of 2014.

Best-selling author Beth Reeks writes about what she knows, and she knows plenty about being a teenager.The British 17-year-old captured the universe of crushes, cliques and first kisses in her book “The Kissing Booth,” which secured her a three-book deal from Random House.Reeks, whose pen name is Beth Reekles, wrote the book when she was only 15 and was frustrated with the reading choices availab

The proposed merger of Penguin and Random House is approved by the European Commission, clearing the way for the deal to go ahead.

Here in the northeast, Spring is finally here which means it's time to clear out the winter cobwebs with picture books! HuffPost blogger Devon Corneal is back with her top recommendations for new reads. So, bring your kids outside to lay on a blanket in the sun and enjoy a Bluebird, a dog playing with a bone, an adventurous robot and some poetry -- it is National Poetry Month after all.Plus, don't miss Devon's roundups of great children's books from January, February and March 2013. Read More More on Book Reviews

Amazon.com Inc., the world's biggest online retailer that got its start in bookselling, has agreed to buy book recommendations site Goodreads.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Amazon said Thursday that it "shares a passion for reinventing reading," with Goodreads."Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with Kindle, Amazon has helped expand reading aroun

“My mother was irresistible,” Maya Angelou says, but “irresistible” is also a word that many readers have applied to Angelou herself. She is a one-woman autobiography industry, as well as a poet, playwright and performer, but mostly she is a Large Public Presence. Her best-known work, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” a harrowing account of her muteness after she was raped as a child, is still widely taught. Several generations of Americans warmly remember “On the Pulse of Morning,” the poem she recited, in her typically stylized fashion, for Bill Clinton’s 1993 presidential inauguration. Read full article >>

Books about bullying, for youngsters and adults, are now so numerous they are a genre in themselves.