The Lost Symbol is the third in a series (after The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons) that follows the adventure of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in a 12-hour race to finish a quest set in Washington, D.C.

Columbia Pictures is already preparing for the film adaptation with Tom Hanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon. The previous films, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons already raked in a whopping $1.23 billion in worldwide box office.

Top 150 books of the last 15 years
(Rank. Title, Author)

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
2. Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution, Robert C. Atkins
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
10. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson
11. The South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston
12. Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom
13. Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
14. What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway
15. The Purpose-Driven Life, Rick Warren
16. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
17. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
18. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
19. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, John Gray
20. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
21. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter
22. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
23. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… And It’s All Small Stuff, Richard Carlson
24. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
25. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
26. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
27. The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
28. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
29. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
30. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
31. A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
32. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, Dr. Seuss
33. The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
34. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
35. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
36. Body-for-Life, Bill Phillips, Michael D’Orso
37. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
38. Night, Elie Wiesel
39. Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
40. The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw
41. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
42. The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
43. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
44. Good to Great, Jim Collins
45. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
46. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
47. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
48. Your Best Life Now, Joel Osteen
49. In the Kitchen With Rosie, Rosie Daley
50. Simple Abundance, Sarah Ban Breathnach
51. A Child Called It, Dave Pelzer
52. A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
53. The Testament, John Grisham
54. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger
55. Deception Point, Dan Brown
56. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
57. Marley & Me, John Grogan
58. Dr. Atkins’ New Carbohydrate Gram Counter, Robert C. Atkins
59. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
60. The Brethren, John Grisham
61. The South Beach Diet Good Fats Good Carbs Guide, Arthur Agatston
62. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, John Grisham
63. For One More Day, Mitch Albom
64. The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
65. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
66. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
67. What to Expect the First Year, Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff, Sandee Hathaway
68. Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, art by Sheila McGraw
69. Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss
70. A Painted House, John Grisham
71. The Rainmaker, John Grisham
72. Skipping Christmas, John Grisham
73. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
74. The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
75. Life Strategies, Phillip C. McGraw
76. Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand
77. The Summons, John Grisham
78. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
79. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
80. The Runaway Jury, John Grisham
81. Goodnight Moon Board Book, Margaret Wise Brown
82. The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
83. Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
84. The Giver, Lois Lowry
85. Embraced by the Light, Betty J. Eadie
86. The Chamber, John Grisham
87. You: On A Diet, Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
88. The Prayer of Jabez, Bruce Wilkinson
89. Holes, Louis Sachar
90. Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
91. The Shack, William P. Young
92. The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
93. Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
94. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
95. The Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav
96. Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Marci Shimoff
97. The Partner, John Grisham
98. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
99. Eldest: Inheritance, Book II, Christopher Paolini
100. The Broker, John Grisham
101. The Street Lawyer, John Grisham
102. A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 1: The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket
103. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
104. Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
105. The King of Torts, John Grisham
106. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
107. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
108. Hannibal, Thomas Harris
109. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
110. Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
111. The Glass Castle: A Memoir, Jeannette Walls
112. My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult
113. The Last Juror, John Grisham
114. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
115. Left Behind, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
116. America (The Book), Jon Stewart and The Writers of The Daily Show
117. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
118. John Adams, David McCullough
119. The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans
120. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
121. Sugar Busters!, H. Leighton Steward, Sam S. Andrews, Morrison C. Bethea, Luis A. Balart
122. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
123. The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
124. 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life, Don Piper, Cecil Murphey
125. The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
126. 1776, David McCullough
127. The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller
128. Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
129. The Ultimate Weight Solution, Phillip C. McGraw
130. Protein Power, Michael R. Eades, Mary Dan Eades
131. Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Marci Shimoff
132. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
133. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
134. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
135. You: The Owner’s Manual, Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz
136. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler’s Life List Patricia Schultz
137. Self Matters, Phillip C. McGraw
138. She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
139. 1984, George Orwell
140. The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
141. The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
142. The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
143. The Zone, Barry Sears, Bill Lawren
144. The Pilot’s Wife, Anita Shreve
145. The Lost World, Michael Crichton
146. Atonement, Ian McEwan
147. He’s Just Not That Into You, Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
148. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
149. The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
150. Cross, James Patterson

USA TODAY’s list is based on sales at 4,700 chain, independent, discount and online booksellers. Unlike other national lists, it combines fiction, non-fiction, hardcover, paperback or other categories on a single list.

Source: USA Today

FICTION

DANGEROUS LAUGHTER
Thirteen Stories
By Steven Millhauser.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.

In his first collection in five years, a master fabulist in the tradition of Poe and Nabo­kov invents spookily plausible parallel universes in which the deepest human emotions and yearnings are transformed into their monstrous opposites. Millhauser is especially attuned to the purgatory of adolescence. In the title story, teenagers attend sinister “laugh parties”; in another, a mysteriously afflicted girl hides in the darkness of her attic bedroom. Time and again these parables revive the possibility that “under this world there is another, waiting to be born.”

A MERCY
By Toni Morrison.
Alfred A. Knopf, $23.95.

The fate of a slave child abandoned by her mother animates this allusive novel — part Faulknerian puzzle, part dream-song — about orphaned women who form an eccentric household in late-17th-century America. Morrison’s farmers and rum traders, masters and slaves, indentured whites and captive Native Americans live side by side, often in violent conflict, in a lawless, ripe American Eden that is both a haven and a prison — an emerging nation whose identity is rooted equally in Old World superstitions and New World appetites and fears.

NETHERLAND
By Joseph O’Neill.
Pantheon Books, $23.95.

O’Neill’s seductive ode to New York — a city that even in bad times stubbornly clings to its belief “in its salvific worth” — is narrated by a Dutch financier whose privileged Manhattan existence is upended by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. When his wife departs for London with their small son, he stays behind, finding camaraderie in the unexpectedly buoyant world of immigrant cricket players, most of them West Indians and South Asians, including an entrepreneur with Gatsby-size aspirations.

2666
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30.

Bolaño, the prodigious Chilean writer who died at age 50 in 2003, has posthumously risen, like a figure in one of his own splendid creations, to the summit of modern fiction. This latest work, first published in Spanish in 2004, is a mega- and meta-detective novel with strong hints of apocalyptic foreboding. It contains five separate narratives, each pursuing a different story with a cast of beguiling characters — European literary scholars, an African-American journalist and more — whose lives converge in a Mexican border town where hundreds of young women have been brutally murdered.

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
By Jhumpa Lahiri.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.

There is much cultural news in these precisely observed studies of modern-day Bengali-Americans — many of them Ivy-league strivers ensconced in prosperous suburbs who can’t quite overcome the tug of traditions nurtured in Calcutta. With quiet artistry and tender sympathy, Lahiri creates an impressive range of vivid characters — young and old, male and female, self-knowing and self-deluding — in engrossing stories that replenish the classic themes of domestic realism: loneliness, estrangement and family discord. (Excerpt)

NONFICTION

THE DARK SIDE
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
By Jane Mayer.
Doubleday, $27.50.

Mayer’s meticulously reported descent into the depths of President Bush’s anti­terrorist policies peels away the layers of legal and bureaucratic maneuvering that gave us Guantánamo Bay, “extraordinary rendition,” “enhanced” interrogation methods, “black sites,” warrantless domestic surveillance and all the rest. But Mayer also describes the efforts ofunsung heroes, tucked deep inside the administration, who risked their careers in the struggle to balance the rule of law against the need to meet a threat unlike any other in the nation’s history.

THE FOREVER WAR
By Dexter Filkins.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.

The New York Times correspondent, whose tours of duty have taken him from Afghanistan in 1998 to Iraq during the American intervention, captures a decade of armed struggle in harrowingly detailed vignettes. Whether interviewing jihadists in Kabul, accompanying marines on risky patrols in Falluja or visiting grieving families in Baghdad, Filkins makes us see, with almost hallucinogenic immediacy, the true human meaning and consequences of the “war on terror.”

NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
By Julian Barnes.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95.

This absorbing memoir traces Barnes’s progress from atheism (at age 20) to agnosticism (at 60) and examines the problem of religion not by rehashing the familiar quarrel between science and mystery, but rather by weighing the timeless questions of mortality and aging. Barnes distills his own experiences — and those of his parents and brother — in polished and wise sentences that recall the writing of Montaigne, Flaubert and the other French masters he includes in his discussion.

THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING
Death and the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust.
Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95.

In this powerful book, Faust, the president of Harvard, explores the legacy, or legacies, of the “harvest of death” sown and reaped by the Civil War. In the space of four years, 620,000 Americans died in uniform, roughly the same number as those lost in all the nation’s combined wars from the Revolution through Korea. This doesn’t include the thousands of civilians killed in epidemics, guerrilla raids and draft riots. The collective trauma created “a newly centralized nation-state,” Faust writes, but it also established “sacrifice and its memorialization as the ground on which North and South would ultimately reunite.”

THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
By Patrick French.
Alfred A. Knopf, $30.

The most surprising word in this biography is “authorized.” Naipaul, the greatest of all postcolonial authors, cooperated fully with French, opening up a huge cache of private letters and diaries and supplementing the revelations they disclosed with remarkably candid interviews. It was a brave, and wise, decision. French, a first-rate biographer, has a novelist’s command of story and character, and he patiently connects his subject’s brilliant oeuvre with the disturbing facts of an unruly life.

Source: NYTimes.com

Since it was released on December 4, “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” has also topped the USA Today and Daily Telegraph charts raising 6.5 million U.S. Dollars for charity.

Proceeds from sales of the book, with 8 million copies in print worldwide, will go to the Children’s High Level Group (CHLG), a charity for vulnerable children in Eastern Europe co-founded by Rowling.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of five fairy tales as mentioned in the final Potter book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” According to the story, the said book was left to Hermione by Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts school.

Last year, the fastest selling book was “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” which is also authored by J.K. Rowling. The book has sold 8.3 million copies during the first 24 hours or release in U.S. alone.

The winner of Simple Little Words is:
Ericson Cabrera

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The winner of Easy Low Fat Cooking Book 2 is:
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In this new book, Simple Little Words (SLW), Michelle Cox and John Perrodin have collected dozens of powerful true stories about lives completely changed by hearing a few simple little words. Click here to watch video
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Contributors in Simple Little Words include novelist Karen Kingsbury, Left Behind author Jerry B. Jenkins, Chik-fil-A founder Truett Cathy, artist Ron DiCianni, Hollywood producer Ken Wales, Dove winner Brandon Heath, Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, and many other wonderful folks like you.

Get your copy of Simple Little Words: What You Say Can Change A Life now. It’s now available at all branches of National Bookstore and Powerbooks. It’s perfect for bedtime reading — and any time you need a little lift.

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But before we proceed, let me just congratulate “Harry Potter“, “Bakekang” and “Neolexis” for winning a copy of Lifebooks’ “Today’s the Day” in our previous contest. Harry Potter won by posting the correct ISBN of Today’s the Day in our forums. However, no one was able to guess the correct price of “Today’s the Day.” It’s retail price in National Bookstores is P 170.00 per copy. So, i picked the two people with the nearest price. Neolexis‘ guess was P168.00 while Bakekang’s guess was P180.00, so each of them won a copy of the book.

Now for our new set of freebies. The first one is from Kuya Kevin. The title of the book is Basta Lovelife. The author of this book is Kuya Kevin himself. This book is filled with relationship advices in a “non-preachy” kind of way.

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The third book is from Lifebooks again. The title of the book is “Simple Little Words.” It’s an inspiring collection of true stories about lives completely changed by hearing a few simple little words. The authors of this book are Michelle Cox and John Perrodin.

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The autobiography was conceptualize by one of his sons, Eric Quizon and written by Bibeth Orteza. It’s basically the life story of the Comedy King with a list of women linked to him alphabetically arranged from Alma to Zsa Zsa.

On July 29, Tuesday, ABS-CBN will hold a special tribute titled “The King of Comedy at 80” to be held at the Meralco Theater. It will be aired on August 3 on Sunday’s Best.

Former wife Alma Moreno and current wife Zsa Zsa Padilla were absent in the said event.

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Is Harry Potter going to die or not? The world is anticipating for the answer to this question in the conclusion of the massive bestseller of the first billion dollar author J.K. Rowling in her Harry Potter series. The seventh and last in the series is entitled “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“. The said book has already shattered the pre-order record as people are eager to know the fate of the beloved wizard.

Reuters. He is not expected to ride his flying broomstick into bookstores for 100 more days, but already British boy wizard Harry Potter is whipping up some magic at bookstore chain Barnes & Noble.

Barnes & Noble Inc. on Thursday said advance orders for author J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” have topped 500,000 copies, breaking the bookseller chain’s record for the most advance requests in its history.

“Deathly Hallows” is the seventh book in the series of hit novels that have thrilled readers and been made into big-budget Hollywood movies.

Speculation has been rife that Rowling, who became the world’s first billion-dollar author on the success of the Harry Potter books and films, may kill Harry off in book seven, but confirmation of Harry’s possible demise awaits publication.

“Deathly Hallows” officially goes on sale on July 21.

Watch the HQ teaser trailer of the upcoming HP flick “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” after the jump…

First on the list is the Bible – the “Ultimate book”, of course.

The Holy Bible
The word “Bible” refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. The Christian Bible is called the Holy Bible, Scriptures, or Word of God. It is divided into two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament; some versions also have an Apocrypha section. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canons contain books not found in the Tanakh, but which were found in the Greek Septuagint. (source: wikipedia)

Book descriptions were taken from Christianbook.com:

Best Inspirational Stories of the Year
Various Authors

We all have crazy days when it seems the world’s gone haywire. Those are the perfect times to enjoy these uplifting, reassuring, and true stories. Your spirit will be lifted and your faith strengthened as you read about ordinary people who, like you, aren’t alone as they face good times and bad with God’s grace.

Our Daily Bread
Various Authors

Here is a new collection of favorites from the widely used devotional Our Daily Bread. These meditations are arranged according to the seven character qualities listed in I Peter 1:5-7, with one attribute for each day of the week. These devotional thoughts will encourage you and enrich your life every day of the year.

Turning Points: Moments of Decision in the Presence of God
By David Jeremiah

From the host of the popular television program Turning Point and author of faith-building favorites My Heart’s Desire and Sanctuary comes a fresh devotional filled with insights and inspiration! Topically arranged for your convenience and featuring 365 entries, it’s filled with food for thought and Scripture-based strength for your daily journey.

Lists to Live By: The Christian Collection
Alice Gray

From the compilers of the popular Lists to Live By series come 200 powerful lists by some of the industry’s top Christian speakers and authors, including Chuck Colson, Joseph Stowell, Max Lucado, Pat Robertson, Shirley Dobson, Henry Blackaby, Dennis Rainey, Bill Gothard, Rick Warren, John MacArthur, Chuck Swindoll, and Bruce Wilkinson. The lists are divided into twelve easy-to-reference sections, with topics like: virtue, prayer, faith, marriage, God’s wisdom, worship, fellowship/community, heaven, and family. Full of humor, insight, and practical advice, these lists will deepen your faith, strenghten your relationships, nurture your hope, build your character, and ultimately enrich your life.

The Purpose Driven Life
By Rick Warren

In this remarkable best-seller Rick Warren will help you understand God’s purpose and plan for your life so that you can learn to live the life for which you were created. The book is divided into forty short chapters so that it can either be read as a personal devotional or studied in a small group setting. Don’t let yourself or your family and friends go without this life-transforming book!

101 Stories of Answered Prayers
By Jeannie St. John Taylor

People sometimes feel they have to be spiritual giants before God will answer their prayers. With its true accounts of answers to everyday requests by ordinary people, this book dispels that myth, gives a “behind the scenes” look at how God responds to our needs, and encourages us to be more diligent in prayer.

The conclusion of the world’s most popular children’s book–Harry Potter–will finally be revealed on July 21, the publication day for the seventh and last installment of J.K. Rowling’s hugely successful book series one week earlier of the world premiere of The Order of the Phoenix movie.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“, the 7th and last of the Harry Potter series, is predicted to be the fastert-selling book of all time, a record currently held by the sixth installment, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” This is because the month of July is going to be the breakout of the “Pottermania” fever because it’s the first time that the book and the movie will be released on the same month.

Bloomsbury Publishing, which handles the Potter books in Britain, said on Thursday that the series had sold 325 million copies worldwide.

The British author wrote on her website that she dreamt for the first time that she was in Potter’s head and roaming around the magical world she has created for him.

The 41-year-old hinted that the stress was getting to her as she writes the closing chapters of the seventh and final Potter novel — in which she has hinted that the beloved hero may be killed off.

“I’m now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more,” Rowling revealed.

“I don’t think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels. I am alternately elated and overwrought.

“I both want, and don’t want, to finish this book (don’t worry I will),” she wrote.

She then described her odd dreams about Harry’s world, which Potter fans are sure to scour for clues about what may happen in the final book.

“For years now, people have asked me whether I ever dream that I am ‘in’ Harry’s world,” Rowling wrote.

“The answer was ‘no’ until a few nights ago, when I had an epic dream in which I was, simultaneously, Harry and the narrator.

“I was searching for a Horcrux (a magical object in Rowling’s books created through the use of the Dark Arts) in a gigantic, crowded hall which bore no resemblance to the Great Hall as I imagine it.

“As the narrator I knew perfectly well that the Horcrux was jammed in a hidden nook in the fireplace, while as Harry I was searching for it in all kinds of other places, while trying to make the people around me say lines I had pre-arranged for them.

“Meanwhile waiters and waitresses who work in the real cafe in which I have written huge parts of book seven roamed around me as though on stilts, all of them at least 15 feet high.”

She added: “Perhaps I should cut back on the caffeine?”

The seventh novel is reportedly due to be published next year at the earliest.

The first six books in the Potter series have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide and been translated into 63 languages, making Rowling Britain’s highest-earning woman. The novels have also been turned into hit films.

“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” the fifth movie in the series, is currently being filmed and is due for release next year.

Rowling said she recently went on a day trip to the film studios where she saw 20 minutes of footage “which looks fantastic.”

Source: Associated Foreign Press