For Rosalynn Carter, four-decade fight for better - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The former first lady details that 1966 meeting and her work since in a new book, "Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis." It is Mrs. Carter's fifth book and her second dealing with mental health. Mrs. Carter, 82, says that while there

Book plug: The Big Short (it was stupidity, stupid!) - Salon
I wrote this as a comment on Stellaa's post, Goldman Sachs Gets A Scolding, Politicians Keep The Money , but then saw that she'd posted it Friday and that probly my comment would get lost in the spam ad section. As I'm not qualified to review this or

MICHELLE SINGLETARY: Read This Book, Then Show Up for - Kitsap Sun
A Crash Course in Finding, Landing and Keeping Your First Real Job” (Workman Publishing Company, $13.95), by Ellen Gordon Reeves, a resume expert at the Columbia Publishing Course in New York. So here we are just a few weeks from graduation

REPORT: Laura Bush discusses fatal Midland crash in new book - My West Texas
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. first lady Laura Bush is going public about a car crash in Midland, Texas, that claimed the life of a high school friend when she was 17. In her new book, "Spoken from the Heart," she describes being wracked by guilt and

Molly Ringwald's new book is 'Pretty' darned good - Deseret News
of that totally awesome trifecta of '80s-era John Hughes reference to Ringwald's Hughesian past in "Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick" — save for a humorous, albeit passing, Emilio Estevez

NY court: Swedish author’s book is substantially - The Gaea Times
Salinger died in January at age 91. The case was one of his last attempts to protect his privacy a half century after the release of “Catcher in the Rye.” Fredrik Colting’s book is titled: “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye.”

Book review: New look at King assassination hard to put down - The Oakland Press
and the International Manhunt for His Assassin" by Hampton was cut down by a sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in April 1968. An escaped convict named James Earl Ray took up residence in a flophouse across the

Indiana district pulls Toni Morrison book from hands of students - Indianapolis Star
District administrators say Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" is being reviewed after it I was about as appalled as I've ever been in my life," said board member Scott Veerkamp. "I wouldn't want to expose my children to that garbage."