Book lifts lid on star of eerie first Dracula film (Reuters) Books News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 09 May 2008 18:52:16 GMT Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a scene from F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic 'Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'. The first screen portrayal of Dracula was so eerie, some critics asked whether the actor himself could be a vampire. But since his death, little has been done to resurrect Schreck's reputation -- until now. (Handout/File/Reuters)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 08 May 2008 17:27:08 GMT AP - 1."Sundays at Tiffany's" by James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet (Little, Brown)

USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 08 May 2008 17:25:39 GMT AP - Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 08 May 2008 17:25:20 GMT AP - 1. "Sundays at Tiffany's" by James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet (Little, Brown) (F-H)

Media conglomerate Bertelsmann's 1Q loss narrows to $4.6M (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 08 May 2008 10:22:57 GMT AP - Bertelsmann AG, the owner of book publisher Random House, said Thursday that its first-quarter loss narrowed significantly from last year as the higher euro and a drop in sales at its book and music clubs crimped earnings.

L.A. gang member-turned-author gets 6 years for carjacking (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Tue, 06 May 2008 21:06:54 GMT AP - A South Los Angeles gang member who wrote a critically praised autobiography behind bars has been sentenced to six years in state prison for a 2006 carjacking.

Prince working on first book as he turns 50 (Reuters) Books News - Yahoo! News - Tue, 06 May 2008 19:43:38 GMT Prince performs during the halftime show of the NFL's Super Bowl XLI football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears in Miami, Florida in this February 4, 2007 file photo. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Penguin tale tops list of `challenged' books (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Tue, 06 May 2008 19:42:08 GMT In this photo released by Simon & Schuster shows the cover of ' And Tango Makes Three,'co-written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. 'And Tango Makes Three,' was the most 'challenged' book in public schools and libraries for the second straight year, according to the American Library Association. (AP Photo/Simon & Schuster)

Prince working on book to be published in the fall (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Mon, 05 May 2008 20:36:24 GMT In this file photo of April 26, 2008 Prince performs during the second day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Prince, the award-winning musical auteur, is now becoming an author. '21 Nights,' a 'photographic essay' that offers 'a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics, and mystique' of the maker of such hits as '1999' and 'Purple Rain,' will be published worldwide this fall, according to Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello,File)

A family that built Saudi Arabia, and shaped a wayward son (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 08 May 2008 22:26:09 GMT AP - "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" (The Penguin Press, 575 pages, $35): In Steve Coll's "Ghost Wars," the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 account of the CIA, Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, the bin Laden family gets passing treatment.