Microsoft Warns Of Computer Security Hole

Microsoft Corp. has taken the rare step of warning about a serious computer security vulnerability it hasn't fixed yet. The vulnerability disclosed Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computers run the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating software.

David Morrell Outdoes Himself With Action Novel

"The Shimmer" (Vanguard Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by David Morrell: Football-sized lights hover over the dark horizon outside Marfa, Texas, bouncing, shimmering, even changing colors. Some can see them, others can't. Theories abound as to what they are, but no one seems to know for sure.

Harry Potter Publisher Denies Plagiarism

Harry Potter - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc denied allegations that author J.K. Rowling copied "substantial parts" of a book by another children's author when she wrote "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."

`Bataan Death March' Detailed, Chilling

"Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages, $30), by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman: A new account of the Bataan Death March, in which more than 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were victims of appalling barbarism — a particularly grim episode of World War II following Japan's invasion of the Philippines.

Book Review: 'Sealing Their Fate' In World War II

"Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-Two Days That Decided World War II" (De Capo Press, 400 pages, $27), by David Downing: Judging by its title, a reader might assume that this book focuses on a period in early 1945 with Germany on the verge of surrender and Japan coming to realize that it, too, was doomed to defeat. Not the case, however.

Obamas To Hold Book Festival

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will preside over the ninth National Book Festival, a daylong celebration of the joys of reading and literacy, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 26, on the National Mall.

Sarah Palin To Publish Memoir

Sarah Palin, the controversial Republican vice presidential candidate in last year's election, is to write a book of memoirs, publishers HarperCollins said Wednesday. The book, due to appear in early 2010, will describe her overnight rise from obscure governor of Alaska to John McCain's running mate and her party's popular, but polarizing new cheerleader.

"Governor Palin is one of the most charismatic, inspiring and controversial figures to appear on the national political stage for many years," said Brian Murray, CEO of HarperCollins. "She has a fascinating story to tell."

Duke To Publish Dissertation By Obama's Mother

A dissertation written by President Barack Obama's late mother is being published. Duke University Press said Monday that an edited version of Ann Dunham's anthropological study about rural craftsmen in Indonesia is scheduled to reach stores this fall. Dunham completed the study three years before she died in 1995.

Book: Franklin Roosevelt Tried To Save Jews

A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he tried to arrange resettlement for thousands of refugees in the late 1930s, only to be thwarted by his own State Department.

The book, “Refugees and Rescue,” claims FDR developed plans in 1938 for the United States to fill its immigration quota with 27,000 Jews from Germany and Austria and to send others to British-held Palestine and friendly nations in Africa and Latin America.

“Most of the initiatives to resettle refugees in underdeveloped areas proved impossible, met substantial resistance abroad, or developed very slowly partly because of resistance by the Department of State,” the Center for Jewish History says in a statement about the book.

Hugo Chavez's Gift To Obama Now Bestseller

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – A book by an Uruguayan journalist that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to President Barack Obama is now the No. 5 seller on Amazon.com.

Bo: Commander-In-Leash Fetches Book Deal

  Now that Bo has his paws firmly planted in the White House, let the marketing begin! A small Virginia publisher is racing out the first picture book for kids featuring the precious little Portie, with the pup on the cover in his colorful lei. How'd they do it so fast? After all, Bo just made his official debut Tuesday.

Obamas Made $2.7 Million In 2008

President Barack Obama's long tenure on the best-seller list is paying off: He and his wife, Michelle, made $2.7 million last year, nearly all of it from his books. While the income was far more than the U.S. median household income of about $50,000, it was far less than the $4.2 million the Obamas made in 2007.