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The book, it turns out, is somehow connected to the infamous Dracula who terrorized Europe in Bram Stoker's classic novel. Except Dracula appears to be real, and the girl and her father have a link to the old ghoul. Kostova earned a hefty advance from the publisher and a large sum for movie right
"There's nothing quite like Harry Potter in publishing," Bookseller magazine children's book expert Caroline Horn told Reuters.

Dracula, however, has nothing on the great white shark. Susan Casey went in search of the vicious sea creatures in one of their native habitats, a string of wind-whipped rock outcroppings called the Farallon Islands, about 25 miles west of San Francisco. (Indeed, the islands are considered within

Indeed, a couple characters were knocked off in previous books, and ugly politics hung heavy over "Order of the Phoenix."
Like so many Potter readers, Heyman has filled time between new releases by rereading the older Potter books and trying out other fantasy series. She mentions Christopher Paolini's "Inheritance," for which the second of three planned volumes comes out next month.