P.S., I Love You, directed by Richard LaGravenese and based on the novel by Cecelia Ahern, opens this coming Friday, December 21. Hilary Swank stars as a widow who discovers 10 steps to start a new life left by her late husband, played by Gerard Butler. The movie tie-in edition is from Hyperion ($13.95, 9781401309169/140130916X).
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Persepolis, based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, opens Tuesday, December 25, and tells the story of a young girl who grows up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Directed by Vincent Paronnaud with voices by Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. The movie tie-in edition is from Pantheon ($24.95, 9780375714832/0375714839).
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Charlie Wilson's War, starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, opens on Christmas Day, too. This is the true story of a Texas Congressman and a renegade CIA agent who arrange the delivery of money and weapons to the mujahedin of Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion. The movie tie-in edition, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times by the late George Crile, is from Grove Press ($14.95, 9780802143419/0802143415).
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There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, opens Wednesday, December 26. A Texas prospector discovers oil in the early 1900s. Based on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. The movie tie-in edition is from Penguin ($15, 9780143112266/0143112260). (Anderson appears this afternoon on NPR's Fresh Air.)