Actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, better known as Dana on the sitcom “According to Jim,” is on the circuit promoting her new children’s book, “Henry and the Hidden Veggie Garden.” Her tour included a stop on Martha Stewart’s TV show today.
Co-written with her father, Gurney Williams III, the book encourages kids to get outdoors, spend time in a vegetable garden and learn to love fresh vegetables. It’s supported by Love Your Veggies, a nationwide school lunch campaign.
All proceeds from the sale of the book ($5) will benefit Books From The Heart®, a nonprofit group dedicated to helping impoverished kids get a chance to succeed.

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has struck a deal with Vanguard Press to publish “Do the Hard Things First (And Other Bloomberg Rules for Business and Politics)” in September. In it, he promises to share management strategies and lessons in life that he used to build a multimillion-dollar business and run New York City.
“Over the course of both my private and public sector careers, I’ve learned a set of rules that I believe offer guidance that people of all professions will find useful,” Bloomberg said in a release. “In this book, I’ve summed up these rules and my experience in how to follow them: from how to build a first-rate team, to create the conditions for innovation, and to know when to say ‘yes’ to your customers and when to say ‘no.’”
Royalties from book sales will go to the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.

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SunLit Communications, which runs DelMio.com, announced several national contracts in conjunction with launching the new DelMio site.
SunLit provides professional content for multimedia outlets such as MSN.com, Random House Inc. and the Center for the Book, a Library of Congress institution — as well as content for DelMio.com.
The new DelMio site features more robust interactive function for users to communicate with one another and post their thoughts online.
Go to www.delmio.com then visit the various menus including Explorations, Sidetrips, blog, News, Forums, Events, etc.
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First lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna are on the campaign trail, but it’s not politics that they’re promoting.
It’s Jenna’s second book, Laura’s first, called Read All About It! They’ve both taught children, and the goal of this book is to encourage boys to read. The book’s primary character, Tyrone, is a composite of boys they’ve taught over the years, boys who have a hard time sitting still long enough to enjoy reading.
“Tyrone is like so many boys,” Laura Bush said on the Today show. “He loves everything real. He rules the school. He just doesn’t like books, because he doesn’t think they’re real.”
The two are criss-crossing the electronic globe to promote the book. Read All About It!, ISBN 9780061560750, is on sale this week.

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Rick Dockery has found himself in a tight spot. A backup quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, he ends up on the field when the two QBs in front of him get hurt. Spotted with a nice lead and a chance to propel the Browns to the Super Bowl, he manages to lose the game anyway and gets a concussion to boot. An angry and drunk mob of Browns fans tries to storm the hospital where Rick is being treated, and it becomes abundantly clear that Rick’s career in Cleveland, and probably the NFL, is over. Grisham takes a side trip from his famous legal thrillers in Playing for Pizza, a story that harnesses the author’s other passion: sports.

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The Da Vinci Code took the literary world by storm, though the movie, well, not so much so. It brought gnosticism to public awareness and suggested something unspreakably evil was going on. And how about Tom Hanks’ hair? It certainly had its fans, and it had a few detractors as well. See for yourself. CLICK HERE

The long-kept last manuscript by Vladimir Nabokov will be published, years after he instructed his son to burn the work. (He died in 1977)
Dmitri Nabokov wrestled with the dilemma: obey his father’s dying wish to burn “The Original of Laura” and deny the literary world one last book by one of the 20th century’s greatest writers, or let the book see the light of day.
He said he father came him in a vision “and said, with an ironic grin, ‘You’re stuck in a right old mess – just go ahead and publish!’”
The son, 73, waited more than 30 years to make the call.

An Akron police detective is in hot water over a book recently published, “Perfect Beauty: Her Looks Could Kill,” the tabloid-worthy case of Cynthia George, a well-off mother of seven, wife of a prominent restaurateur and lover of two other men — one dead from a mob-style gunshot wound, the other in prison convicted of that killing.
George made national headlines when she was arrested in connection with the daytime shooting of Jeff Zack, her former lover, while he was at a gas station in 2001. She was convicted of conspiring with another lover, John Zaffino, to kill Zack after a sensational trial punctuated with testimony of sordid love affairs, paternity tests, jealousy and murder. Her conviction was overturned on appeal for lack of evidence.
Detective Vince Felber was a lead investigator of the case. In “Perfect Beauty,” he recounts with co-author Keith Elliot Greenberg how the case tumultuously came together before it fell apart.
Now Felber’s tell-all has him under investigation by his police department.

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ABA Annual Meeting & Programming

BEA features 2,000-plus exhibits from publishers, vendors, and suppliers — as well as 60-plus conference sessions. Conduct business, hone your bookselling skills at ABA educational programs, network with your fellow members, and meet many of your favorite authors. May 28 – June 1, 2008, Los Angeles Convention Center.