A former top CIA official whose 33 years of service included the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the death of Osama bin Laden has a book deal.   The publisher Twelve has acquired...

"A Prayer Journal" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Flannery O'Connor   Flannery O'Connor's "A Prayer Journal" is a moving glimpse of a young writer seeking to...

Early last century, Juan Mamo wrote the Ulied in-Nanna Venut fl-Amerika, which, with its blunt and iconoclastic prose, risqué jokes and graphic descriptions of a low-life Malta venturing out of...

Horizons has just published Budulienko, is a modern poetic remake of a classic Czech folk tale, told from generation to generation. The story – in Maltese and English - revolves around a little...

Longtime music writer and Rolling Stone critic Anthony DeCurtis is writing a biography of Lou Reed.   Little, Brown and Co. announced Thursday that it had acquired a book by...

"The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son" (Nan A. Talese), by Pat Conroy   Any fan of Pat Conroy's work already knows a lot about his dad. The abusive,...

"Cybercrime is now a really big deal, and so Scarpetta is inevitably going to get involved in crimes that have to do with the Internet, or the high technology with communications," the...

A federal judge handed Google Inc. a victory in a long-running legal battle on Thursday, tossing out a lawsuit claiming the Internet giant was violating copyright laws by scanning books without the...

Doris Lessing emerged from a black cab outside her home in London one day in 2007 and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and retorted "Oh...

"Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens, and Sheep & Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity after Another" (The...