Palin book tour to start Nov. 18 (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:40:57 GMT FILE - In this July 26, 2009, file photo, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks in Fairbanks, Alaska. Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governor's mansions in a cross-country Democratic wave. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, FILE)

Review: 'The Road Out of Hell' a chilling tale (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:40:32 GMT In this book cover image released by Union Square Press, 'The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders' by Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark is shown. (AP Photo/Union Square Press)

Review: 'SuperFreakonomics' as fun as predecessor (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:09:26 GMT FILE - In this undated book cover file image released by Random House, 'Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance,' by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is shown. (AP Photo/Random House, File)

Canadian, American writers win French literary prizes (AFP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:34:04 GMT Canadian writer Dany Laferriere poses with his book in Paris after he won the 2009 Prix Medicis. Laferriere and American novelist Dave Eggers were awarded France's Medicis literary prize celebrating original writing.(AFP/Francois Guillot)

Sarah Palin promises more cities on book tour (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:32:59 GMT AP - Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is promising to visit more cities than a conventional book tour when her memoir "Going Rogue" is published later this month.

Obama's half brother recalls their abusive father (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:53:15 GMT In this Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 photo, Mark Ndesandjo, the intensely private half-brother of President-elect Barack Obama, attends a charity concert in Shenzhen, southern China. President Barack Obama's half brother in China has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel - a semi-autobiographical story describing a physically abusive parent patterned on the two men's late father, to be released Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Price moves up and down for new Grisham book (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:41:59 GMT AP - It was a weird day in the book price wars.

John Grisham's short stories long on characters (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:21:11 GMT Author John Grisham is shown in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Spanish novelist Francisco Ayala dead at 103 (AFP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:40:31 GMT Spanish writer Francisco Ayala in his house in Madrid in 2007. Ayala, whose works dealt with the abuse of power and who taught at several top universities in the US, died Tuesday at his home in Madrid, his foundation said. He was 103.(AFP/File/Pierre-Philippe Marcou)

Review: Michael Chabon explores manhood in book (AP) Books News - Yahoo! News - Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:49:21 GMT In this book cover image released by Harper, 'Manhood for Amateurs' by Michael Chabon, is shown. (AP Photo/Harper)