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20th Century Fox 75th Anniversary Gift Set. Seventy-Five movies in three volumes with a hard cover book.
 
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"WILLIAM AND KATE: A ROYAL LOVE STORY" by James Clench
[AP, 11/29/2010]
First came the royal engagement. Now, 10 days later, the first book. "William and Kate: A Royal Love Story," by The Sun newspaper's royal reporter James Clench was published in Britain Friday, November 26, 2010. It is the first in a slew of new titles about the relationship between Prince William and Kate Middleton that publishers hope will set cash registers chirping in the months before their April 29, 2011 wedding at Westminster Abbey. Published by Harper Collins and The Sun - both owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp - the book is scattered with photos by Arthur Edwards, the paper's long-serving royal photographer. "William and Kate: A Royal Love Story" is due to be published in the U.S. on Dec. 17, 2010. It charts the romance between "the boy who would one day be king" and "the middle-class girl who had harbored a crush on him since her school days." The book traces "the greatest love story of the century" from the couple's first meeting at a university in Scotland. It claims that William's nickname for Kate was Babykins, while she called him Big Willie. Publication comes just days after the Nov. 16, 2010 engagement announcement, and at the start of the lucrative Christmas book-buying season.
 
"MY PASSION FOR DESIGN" by Barbra Streisand
[Reuters, 11/29/2010]
It's not exactly opening your home to guests at a holiday party, but for film and singing star Barbra Streisand and her fans, it's pretty close. This week Streisand has seen her first book land in stores, but it's no memoir of star turns in films such as "Funny Girl" or "The Way We Were," nor does it recount the making of albums that have sold over 71 million copies. For her debut as an author, Streisand has instead written about her love of architecture, art, furniture and landscaping in "My Passion for Design." But don't be fooled by its title because within the pages, the star tells tales from her life and career that influenced the choices she made in designing her dream home in Malibu, California. "I think it makes it more interesting," she told Reuters about the book's first-person style. The coffee table book from Viking publishers takes readers on Streisand's years-long journey planning, building and furnishing the compound that resembles a 19th century New England farm with a barn, mill house, main house, Grandma's house and even a chicken coop, and it is the home in which Streisand and her husband James Brolin spend most all their time and it is, in a word, rather comfy.
 

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Call Me Russell by Russell Peters [Doubleday Canada]

Seoul to Soul by Ben Johnson

William and Kate: A Royal Love Story, by James Clench

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"ONE DAY IT'LL MAKE SENSE" by Rapper Commons
[Aceshowbiz, 11/22/2010]
Rapper Common is set to lift the lid on his childhood and his rise to fame in a new autobiography. The hip-hop star has signed a deal to write a book about his life, which will explore his early days in his native Chicago, Illinois as well as his stellar music career. "One Day It'll Make Sense" will be co-written by Adam Bradley and is set for release in June 2011 under Atria Books. Bradley has written books like "Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop", "The Anthology of Rap" and a book on Ralph Ellison titled "In Progress". Title to Common's book is the same to the title of his new album. Atria further said that the book will also recall his exploits in the Hip-Hop industry with rappers like Kanye West, and his crossover into the world of acting in movies like "Terminator: Salvation", "American Gangster" and "Just Wright".
 
"SEOUL TO SOUL" by Ben Johnson
[Klassic, 11/22/2010]
One year before becoming the world's fastest human, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for a banned substance. "I didn't know about [the Zurich test] … until Charlie [spoke] to me many years after when everything [was] unfolding with this Andre Jackson stuff," Johnson said. "I was totally surprised because it never came out, and everything was done with." Johnson, who is in the midst of a promotional tour for his new book Seoul to Soul, defeated U.S. and Olympic champion Carl Lewis for the fist time at that meet, which began his progression to the top of the track and field world and set the two sprinters up as bitter rivals. A year later, he set the world record at the 1987 Rome world track and field championships in a time of 9.83 seconds. He then beat his own world record at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul with a time of 9.79 but was stripped of his medal three days after his historic victory for testing positive for the steroid stanozolol. Johnson insisted a stranger had set him up, spiking his drink with the drug. In his book, Johnson alleges the person who set him up was a family friend of Lewis and a former U.S. football player, as part of a larger conspiracy to give Lewis the advantage. Lewis was given the gold after Johnson lost it in 1988.
 
 

 
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