Amoeba co-founder pens record-store novel for teens (Reuters) Books News - Yahoo! News - Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:29:04 GMT Reuters - Label executives occasionally write books about the record business, but it's far rarer to see someone from music retailing knock out a tome about record stores.

Augusten Burroughs shares his holiday stories (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:33:59 GMT FILE - This undated file photo released by St. Martins Press shows Augusten Burroughs. (AP Photo/St. Martins Press, Craig Cutler)

Review: Arsenault's latest novel a fast-paced romp (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:15:44 GMT In this book cover image released by Minotaur Books, 'Loot the Moon,' by Mark Arsenault, is shown. (AP Photo/Minotaur Books)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:24:00 GMT AP - 1. "The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time)" by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (TOR Books)

New Woodrow Wilson bio presents a complex figure (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:26:46 GMT In this book cover image released by Knopf Books, 'Woodrow Wilson,' by John Milton Cooper, Jr. is shown. (AP Photo/Knopf Books)

BC-US--Best Sellers-Books-USAToday (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:41:48 GMT AP - Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback

WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERS (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:52 GMT AP - 1. "Tempted (House of Night Novels)" by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Press)

John Irving still spinning fiction from real life (Reuters) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:13:23 GMT Reuters - Backstage, renowned novelist John Irving tells a story about the 300-pound (165-kg) man he found in the sauna at his New York hotel that morning.

Story told of contradictory Civil War general (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:12 GMT AP - "Devil's Dream" (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In "Devil's Dream," Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan.

Less poetry, music but big Miami book fair goes on (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:37:57 GMT In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of Miami Book Fair International, is shown at Books & Books, in Coral Gables, Fla. Poetry and music have been cut and there will be no parade to kick off the Miami Book Fair International as in years past. But one of the nation's leading literary festivals isn't giving up on readers in a bad economy. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)