Sarah Palin is taking her conservative message to Fox News. An attorney for the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate says Palin will provide some type of commentary for the cable network.

Attorney Thomas Van Flein declined to elaborate on the deal.

Palin is hugely popular with conservatives and has more than 1 million Facebook followers.

She stepped down as Alaska governor in July, 17 months before the end of her first term in office. Her resignation came less than a year after she vaulted to overnight fame as John McCain’s running mate.

Palin worked part-time as a weekend sportscaster in the 1980s for KTUU-TV in Anchorage.

Surfer Blood: Thomas Fekete, Tyler Schwartz, John Paul Pitts, Brian Black and Marcos Marchesani. (Photo by Ian Witlen)

There’s a centaur on stage with Surfer Blood.

And he’s playing tambourine.

Actually, it’s local artist Norman Gitzen in costume, helping the young band as they play a loose, fun set during the recent Moonfest on Halloween in front of O’Shea’s Irish Pub. Read the full story

Hardcover Fiction
1. THE 8TH CONFESSION,* by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.)
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate a pair of killings.
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A vampire ally hides his mixed blood; Book 7 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
3. FIRST FAMILY, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.)
4. SUMMER ON BLOSSOM STREET,* by Debbie Macomber. (Mira, $24.95.)
More stories of life and love from a Seattle knitting class.
5. TEA TIME FOR THE TRADITIONALLY BUILT, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $23.95.)
6. JUST TAKE MY HEART, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.)
7. LOITERING WITH INTENT, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.)
8. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.)
9. THE LANGUAGE OF BEES,* by Laurie R. King. (Bantam, $25.)
Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, help a painter search for his missing wife and child.
10. LOOK AGAIN, by Lisa Scottoline. (St. Martin’s, $26.95.)

Non-fiction
1. LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.)
2. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Little, Brown, $27.99.)
3. THE GIRLS FROM AMES, by Jeffrey Zaslow. (Gotham, $26.)
4. ALWAYS LOOKING UP, by Michael J. Fox. (Hyperion, $25.99.)
5. COLUMBINE, by Dave Cullen. (Twelve, $26.99.)
6. THE END OF OVEREATING,* by David A. Kessler. (Rodale, $25.95.)
How eating sugar, fat and salt affects our minds and bodies and encourages overindulgence.
7. MOMMYWOOD, by Tori Spelling with Hilary Liftin. (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $25.)
8. A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.)
9. LOSING MUM AND PUP,* by Christopher Buckley. (Twelve, $24.99.)
A memoir of the lives and deaths of the author’s parents, Patricia and William F. Buckley.
10. HOUSE OF CARDS, by William D. Cohan. (Doubleday, $27.95.)

Mass-market paperbacks
1. BURNING WILD,* by Christine Feehan. (Jove, $7.99.)
A billionaire with leopard-shifting abilities has an animal attraction toward his young son’s nanny.
2. AT LAST COMES LOVE,* by Mary Balogh. (Dell, $6.99.)
Margaret Huxtable and the infamous Earl of Sheringford prepare to marry, for all the wrong reasons.
3. SAIL,* by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Vision, $9.99.)
A sailing vacation turns into a disaster.
4. ANGELS AND DEMONS, by Dan Brown. (Pocket, $9.99.)
5. DARK SUMMER, by Iris Johansen. (St. Martin’s, $7.99.)
6. ODD HOURS,* by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $9.99.)
Odd Thomas, who can communicate with the dead, confronts evil forces in a California coastal town.
7. NO CHOICE BUT SEDUCTION, by Johanna Lindsey. (Pocket, $7.99.)
8. JUST BREATHE,* by Susan Wiggs. (Mira, $7.99.)
Her marriage broken, the author of a syndicated comic strip flees to California, where romance and surprise await.
9. THE BOURNE SANCTION,* Eric Van Lustbader. (Grand Central, $9.99.)
Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne pursues a Muslim terrorist leader.
10. TRUE LOVE AND OTHER DISASTERS,* by Rachel Gibson. (Avon/HarperCollins, $7.99.)
A woman inherits her dead husband’s hockey team and ends up in bed with one of its star players.

Amazon.com’s Top 10 books in West Palm Beach (H: Hardcover; P: Paperback):
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2. Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes (P)
3. The Official SAT Study Guide (P)
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5. Rethink: A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation (H)
6. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (H)
7. Healing the Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program (P)
8. My Roald Dahl: The BFG (P)
9. The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World (P)
10. The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types (P)

For more than 40 years, Mrs. Butterworth’s® has made kids smile by sharing her secrets of thick, rich syrup at breakfast tables everywhere.

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The person who correctly guesses the first name of one of America’s leading ladies of syrup will receive a $500.00 cash prize, a year’s supply of Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup, and will be featured on the web site.

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