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I also loved the concept of the next book-a take off on the second James Bond film!

HEAT hits... Steven Barnes 2008

Casolaro, 44, was a Washington-based freelance reporter who was working on a bombshell book-a megexpose that, he said, involved the Iran-contra scandal, the October Surprise, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International and a pattern of allegedly shady dealings by the Reagan Justice Department.

A Victim Of 'The Octopus'? 2008

After a few years he returned to the realm of print to produce his first book-a carefully researched and scathing attack on computers in education stretching back to the early Eighties.

Practical Futurist: Are Computers Wrecking Schools? 2007

Rather than write a tell-all book-a "cheesy" idea-he suggested she write a children's book.

Monty Frazier, Image Catalyst: Did He Make Over Katie Couric? 2002

It did look rather like one of the ethereal creatures in a children's book-a gossamer-pale dress over a thin wraith of a body, and the transparent insect wings, too small to hold her up in the air, even at a hover; pointed face, silver hair surmounted by a wreath of ivy, eyes far too big for the thin little visage.

The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

As a good portion of this would have been used to help wind down the South African Reserve Bank's forward book-a major source of the rand's vulnerability and volatility-the speculation had damaged sentiment.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

Abner did not hear this praise, for it came long after he was dead, but he reaped his full enjoyment from his great task when it came time to translate Ezekiel, for there was something about this strange book-a contrapuntal melody of the most banal observations and the most exalted personal revelations'that spoke directly to him and epitomized his life.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

In the case of Paris, the city of eternal love, I chose an even more specific historical reference book-a prostitute guide from 1883.

Slate Magazine Tony Perrottet 2011

"I want the site to be a replacement for the comic book-a place where a person can go to read the latest work by many of the great talents in cartooning today," Crane says.

The New Yorker 2010

The book-a series of interviews with journalist Dominique de Montvalon-includes a harsh attack on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which Allègre calls a "mafia-like system" that propagates a "baseless myth."

News Martin Enserink 2010