Books ala Oscar!

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Best Picture nominees Sideways and Million Dollar Baby are based on the books Sideways by Rex Pickett (St. Martin's Griffin) and Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by the late F.X. Toole (Ecco), respectively. St. Martin's published Sideways, screenwriter Pickett's first novel, as an original paperback, and the book now carries a tie-in cover. A new edition of Toole's book, published by Ecco Press on January 1, is retitled Million Dollar Baby, and it sports a new jacket reflecting the popularity of the Best Picture nominee.

Books that relate to other Best Picture nominees include J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin (Yale University Press) with the film Finding Neverland and Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, written with David Ritz (Da Capo), with the film Ray.