(andPOP) - Canadian actor Michael Cera is reportedly in final talks to star in a movie adaptation of the graphic novel “Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life.”
Cera, who starred in TV’s “Arrested Development” and most recently “Juno” and “Superbad,” would play the titular hero of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s anime-styled series about a [...]

Where babies and toddlers go, politicians on the campaign trail are sure to follow. But Associate Health Minister Damien O;Connor and National Party leader John Key had the excuse yesterday that it was all for a good cause.
Mr O;Connor was launching a draft national strategy to increase breastfeeding rates, while Mr Key was helping [...]

One hundred and fifty years on, the Lincoln-Douglas debates enjoy the dubious status of myth. The specific circumstances and local passions that shaped them have long been forgotten, and subsequent events %26mdash; the rise of Lincoln as a towering national figure and the Civil War %26mdash; make it almost mandatory to read the debates as [...]

The Winter War, by William Durbin, $15.99. In November 1939, on the eve of World War II, Russia’s Red Army outnumbered Finland’s troops by a ratio of 4-to-1. The Russians assumed they easily could invade their neighbor and seize some attractive land.
They didn’t reckon on the Finns’ fervent nationalism and superlative winter skiing and [...]

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Sci-fi novel among 100,000 downloadable titles
He is an accountant by training, a science administrator by vocation and a scientist by passion.
And now, in this latest addition to his professional evolution, Ben Parris has become a science-fiction novelist by download.
“Wade of Aquitaine,” the Hicksville, N.Y., resident’s romantic fantasy about time travel [...]

The Denver area’s best-selling books, according to information from the Tattered Cover Book Store, Barnes %26 Noble in Greenwood Village, Boulder Book Store and Borders Books in Englewood.
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1. The Appeal, by John Grisham, $27.95
2. Now You See Him, by Eli Gottlieb, $22.95
3. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, $25.95
4. [...]

Twenty years after the death of John Mitchell, Fox News Washington correspondent James Rosen tries in “The Strong Man” to explain the rise and fall of the former U.S. attorney general and brains behind Richard M. Nixon’s White House campaigns.
For nearly 600 pages, Rosen struggles to make sense of Mitchell’s unlikely entry into the [...]

Wallace Stegner and the American West, by Philip L. Fradkin, $27.50. Anyone who has read the novels of Wallace Stegner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Angle of Repose,” knows a great deal about the author’s personal life. Stegner, who grew up in Canada and Salt Lake City, fictionalized his family over and over again in [...]

West of Denver is a city called Las Vegas. But in Christina Binkley’s telling, Las Vegas is not so much a city of the American West as it is a state of mind, a Disneyland of the desert.
Binkley, who has covered Las Vegas for more than a decade for The Wall Street Journal, has [...]

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Heath Ledger bio
London publisher John Blake is rushing out a biography of Heath Ledger, following the actor’s recent death.
To be published as a B-format paperback on April 7, “Heath Ledger: His Beautiful Life and Mysterious Death,” by Fleet Street journalist John McShane, is billed as the first biography of [...]