Redwall fans everywhere can rejoice with the knowledge that The Sable Quean—the latest installment of the  Redwall series by Brian Jaques—is only weeks away from hitting bookstores.

We never had the opportunity to get into the Redwall series growing up, but from what we can tell from the synopsis and the book trailer, it looks good!

But for those of you Redwall fans out there, how do you think this book will compare to the others?

While it promises to be action-packed, do you  think that’s a good thing or a bad thing?

We absolutely love this!

Some fans of O’Reilly Media took it upon themselves to create a funny book cover generator where you can create your own funny book cover using O’Reilly cover images.

Need we say more? Create away! (Our creation can be seen above.)

(via Makezine.com)

If you don’t like sad movies, you might not want to watch the trailer for Dear John (based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks).

But, if you happen to be up for a teary-eyed moment, this trailer (and the book it’s based on) are sure to please.

In her newest book, In the Arms of Immortals, author Ginger Garrett tells a sweeping tale of the Black Death and how it causes one Sicilian village to “spill its guts” in more ways than one.

You can check out the description (via B&N) below:

The Black Death sweeps through a medieval Sicilian village…revealing old secrets, true character, and stunning spiritual realities.

When the Black Death [...] sweeps through a medieval Sicilian village, three women must face their true selves…and their eternal destinies.

In the time of the Black Death, when the faithful had no answers and the faithless had no hope…only the bravest dared cling to a silent God.

The folks at Cracked.com had an interesting photo contest called If Hollywood Decided to Give Everything a Gritty Reboot, where they challenged readers to give beloved books, movies, and TV shows a “gritty” reboot.

One of the pictures (it took 10th place, by the way), was of Charlotte’s Webb, the beloved book by E. B. White.

While they chose to “reboot” the movie poster of Charlotte’s Webb instead of the book cover, we think this just as easily can apply to the book…

And that is one children’s book we wouldn’t want to read.

This certainly is one of the weirdest (and coolest) weird reader gifts we’ve featured to date.

You take two naturally opposing forces (the Librarian and the action figure), and mix them together to create the hybrid pictured above. The results are quite… uh, awesome?

All in all, we love this action figure—we think it would make a great gift for any Librarian with a good sense of humor.

Truth be told, our main complaint about this action figure and its accessories is that there aren’t any C.S. Lewis books on that library cart. (Not that we can see, anyways.)

You can get this gem of an action figure (made by Accoutrements) over at Amazon.

If you liked this action figure, you might also like these famous author action figures as well.

Not to be outdone by the upcoming Pride Prejudice and Zombies movie (based on the hit book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ), it has been confirmed that Emily Bronte’s classic book Wuthering Heights will be getting a new film adaptation, directed by Andrea Arnold.

Whether the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights is merely an attempt to jump on the trend of classic books becoming hip again (or the fact that it’s Edward and Bella’s favorite book), is left to individual speculation. But the most recent film version of Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightly) went alright, so here’s hoping that Arnold does Bronte’s work justice.

While no trailer has been released for the new Wuthering Heights film yet, you can see the trailer for the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights (starring Ralph Fiennes) above.

For those of you that love or know of someone who loves the Zhu Zhu Pet obsession, you now have a new must-have Zhu Zhu Pet item to add to your list.

Zhu Zhu pets (the small, fuzzy hamster-like fuzzballs that are currently taking over the world) are now being made into a manga.

The manga version of Zhu Zhu pets is due to debut this year, with an anime version planned for sometime in 2011.

Not quite sure what the manga will be about, but since there’s so much money to be made they’re looking to create a quality story, we’re sure they’ll think of something.

(via AnimeNewsNetwork)

For those of you that have spent a good amount of time on the internet, the obsession with bacon spouted in this book will come as little surprise.

But for an internet sensation to become a book? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time, now would it?

In Bacon: A Love Story, author Heather Lauer (of BaconUnwrapped.com) talks all things bacon. From the love affair people seem to have with it, to how it’s prepared, this book is like a Bacon 101 class.

Here’s the description as provided by Amazon: Continue Reading

Due to be released in the US at the end of January, this book trailer (more like a teaser trailer, really) for Catherine Fisher’s Incarceron definitely has us interested.

Being heaped with all sorts of praise, it seems that Incarceron is set to be the next ‘it’ fantasy novel in ya fiction.

You can check out a description of the book below:

Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible.

And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside- she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison, and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don’t realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye. Escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know.