Author traces roots of U.S. political conspiracy theories (Reuters) Books News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:31:51 GMT Reuters - Extremist political conspiracies such as "birthers" and "truthers" may be a dominant theme of post-9/11 America, but in a new book by Arthur Goldwag, he argues that modern conservative groups may be a product of history repeating itself.

Billy Ray C 5a8 yrus signs with Amazon (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:04:25 GMT FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, singer Billy Ray Cyrus attends a special screening of 'Albert Nobbs', hosted by the Cinema Society and Giorgio Armani at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The singer of 'Achy Breaky Heart' and father and former co-star of Miley Cyrus has a memoir, 'Hillbilly Heart,' coming in spring 2013. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:05:44 GMT AP - 1. "Taken" by Robert Crais (Putnam)

USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:05:18 GMT AP - 1. "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:04:51 GMT AP - Best-Selling Books Week Ended Jan. 28th.

Massachusetts governor has two-book deal (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:57:48 GMT AP - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has a two-book deal, including a budget-priced e-book and a second work that will build on responses to the first.

Barnes & Noble Makes the Right Call Not Selling Amazon Published Books (ContributorNetwork) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:58:53 GMT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY

Making a case for Elizabeth Taylor as a feminist (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:52:56 GMT In this book cover image released by Walker & Company, 'The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted to Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice,' by M.G. Lord, is shown. (AP Photo/Walker & Company)

Sam Vaughan, editor and author, dead at age 83 (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:01:27 GMT AP - Sam Vaughan, a longtime editor and publisher at Random House and Doubleday who worked with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington and many others has died. He was 83.

Debbie Reynolds plans new memoir, 'Unsinkable' (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:28:20 GMT AP - Debbie Reynolds must have thought she'd said it all in her memoir a quarter-century ago.