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Books being made into movies is no new thing. It has been going on for quite some time. And just yesterday a new film opened up that is based on a book. The film is Babylon A.D. It stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gerard Depardieu, and Charlotte Rampling. And it is based on French sci-fi novelist Maurice G. Dantec’s Babylon Babies.

Looking for new books that come out this week? If so, here is a partial listing of titles you can find in book stores starting this week.

September 1st releases:

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox, illus. by Helen Oxenbury (Harcourt)

America by Charlie Samuels (Little, Brown)

Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base (Abrams)

Bliss by Lauren Myracle (Abrams/Amulet)

Rainbow Magic: Stella the Star Fairy by Daisy Meadows, illus. by Georgie Ripper (Scholastic)

Little Scholastic: Welcome Winter by Jill Ackerman, illus. by Nancy Davis (Scholas-tic/Cartwheel)

September 2nd releases:

The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central Publishing)

Dark Curse by Christine Feehan (Berkley)

They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It by Brigitte Gabriel (St. Martin’s Press)

Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain (Minotaur)

The Truth About You, Your Secret to Success by Marcus Buckingham (NA)

Sinner by Ted Dekker ( )

The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong by John Mitchinson and John Lloyd (Harmony)

Nothing to be Frighten Of by Julian Barnes ()

Icarus and the Edge of Time by Brian Greene ()

The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer (Crown)

In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by John Gartner (St. Martin’s Press)

Rough and Tumble by Mark Bavaro (St. Martin’s Press)

Warriors: Power of Three #4: Eclipse by Erin Hunter (HarperCollins)

The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman (Disney-Hyperion)

Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland by Jon Scieszka, illus. by Mary Blair (Disney Press)

Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes, illus. by Bryan Collier (Simon & Schuster)

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight by Kathleen Krull, illus. by Amy June Bates (Simon & Schuster)

September 3rd releases:
The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent (Little, Brown)

Supreme Courtship: A Novel by Christopher Buckley (Twelve)

September 5th releases:

Madeline and the Cats of Rome by John Bemelmans Marciano (Viking)

You can also find all of these titles on Amazon.

You know, summer is coming to a close here and that means that kids are going back to school and that parents will soon be back at home or back at work without the kids around. And that means just one thing. That means that before you know it the holiday season will be here and you will need to get ready to go shopping for all of your Christmas presents. And of course you will want to start that out before the holiday season gets here and you are out of time. You can actually start that holiday shopping with the thanksgiving ads that come out with the great prices right before Christmas. And as you know that is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, shopping days of the entire year. Of course the day that I am talking about is called ‘Black Friday’ by people all over the United States. And you can get going on that Black Friday shopping with your fave merchants, like Dick’s Sporting Goods, and see what great Dick’s Sporting Goods sales are going on this Black Friday with the help of the website blackfriday.biz. In fact you will be able to find about about all sorts of deals and sales that are going on for Black Friday Christmas shopping all from just checking out this Black Friday shopping website that I am talking about. And that sure beats trying to get a paper on Sunday to make sure that you get to read all of the ads for your fave stores. Instead you can just sit at home in your pjs and punch up this website to see what is going on at all of the stores that you like to shop at for your self and others. So why not check out this website today and be sure to bookmark it so that you can check on it later as well.

Michael Phelps’ name has been in the press a lot lately. Thanks to all of his Olympic wins. Well, if you have become of fan of Michael Phelps then you can read a book about him soon. In fact, Free Press won the rights to the memoir of Olympic hotshot Michael Phelps during an auction. The book is set to be titled “Built to Succeed.” And you can find in book stores this December. The first printing will have 500,000 copies in its print run.

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Looking for new titles that come out this week? If so, here are a few new books you can look for on August 26th.

Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs (Scribner)

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell (Hyperion)

Disney-Pixar Cars: Meet the Cars (Disney Press)

The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau (Random)

Identical by Ellen Hopkins (S&S/McElderry)

Disney Fairies: The Hidden World of Fairies by Tennant Redbank (Disney Press)

Handy Manny: Squeeze in a Pinch (Disney Press)

Kingdom Keepers II by Ridley Pearson (Disney Editions)

You can also find all of these titles on Amazon.