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Two months ago, He Yunni started dreaming about something that has gripped working mothers from Margaret Oliphant to J.K. Rowling: how to write a series of stories so successful that she could quit her day job.

The superintendent of the Edison Local school district urged graduates from his high school to never give up in life.

Since the world-famous novelist Dan Brown is well known for blending fact and fiction, readers are always on guard in trying to separate reality from poetic license.

2. The last Olympian , Rick Riordan The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.

London, May 26: After playing boy wizard Harry Potter in movies based on J.K. Rowling's bestsellers, actor Daniel Radcliffe is keen to play his favourite comic book character from "The Flash". The actor says he would love to don the red and yellow lycra suit sported by the superhero in "The Flash". He feels a movie like that could rival "The ... (more)

It's a great time to be a Harry Potter fan with a Kindle , now that Amazon has announced that all seven Harry Potter books will be available for free through the Kindle Lending Library via its Prime service .

Twilight: The Complete Film Archive will be released on October 9, a month before the final film is released in the theaters.

Like a dying star or an exhausted Biggest Loser contestant, the universe is officially collapsing in on itself.

A top ten list of Scotland's favourite tomes reveals most of us haven't picked up a decent one since school, while current thinking in education is failing to produce new readers, argues Tiffany Jenkins WhilE clearing out the home of an old family friend recently, after his death, I came across piles of notebooks, pens, encyclopaedias and classic ... (more)

For those of you anticipating Nov. 16th - the release of the final Twilight movie - with a mix of utmost dread and excitement, the good folks at Little, Brown will be releasing the definitive, lushly photographed tome to commemorate the record-breaking film series on Oct.

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint who is known for his character Ron in the franchise has signed up for two new movie projects.

The fictional JK Rowling sport was added to the curriculum at Ormiston Park Academy, in Thurrock, Essex, in a bid to fight plummeting attendance levels The fictional Harry Potter sport was introduced at Ormiston Park Academy, in Thurrock, Essex, in a bid to fight plummeting attendance levels.

As far as I know, Harry Potter has just finished his fourth year at Hogwarts and Lord Voldemort is making his comeback.

Looking at the circus that is unfolding in the impeachment trial, I reflected on what it says about Mindanao.A Perhaps, one must have the imagination as fertile as that of J.K. Rowling to see a connection.

The "Fifty Shades" trilogy, author E.L. James' erotic saga about a young woman and the mysterious man she falls for, has sold more than 10 million copies in the United States, the publisher revealed Tuesday.

The books and movies have come to an end but Harry Potter is living on in Pottermore, a digital land and e-book store that is set to leave yet another giant business footprint.

J.K. Rowling will publish a hardcover Hogwarts Library Box Set with Bloomsbury later this year.

A look at some of the books that have been banned over the years, according to the American Library Association.

A slew of best-selling electronic books helped boost profits at Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing as the book industry continues its shift to digital, and the firm said it would look to academic titles for a larger part of future growth.

"People saw Harry's owl in the movies and thought how cute and cuddly they looked.