Manchester resident Naomi Hughlett will sign copies of her book, "Moved by Compassion: A Biblical Guide to Healing and Deliverance," from 12:30 to 4 p.m. March 13 at Borders Books & Music, 3000 Whiteford Road, Springettsbury Township.

Best-sellers at Borders Books & Music in Springettsbury Township for the week that ended Jan. 31.

1. "A Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick.
2. "I am Ozzy" by Ozzy Osbourne.
3. "The Lost City of Z" by David Grann.
4. "Game Change" by John Heilman and Mark Halperin.
5. "The Last Song" by Nicholas Sparks.

Laura van den Berg, 2009-10 emerging writer lecturer at Gettysburg College, will read from her fiction at 3:15 p.m. Feb. 10 in the 1770s room in the York College Iosue Student Union. The event is free.

Van den Berg's first collection of stories, "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us," was published by Dzanc Books in October and was a pick for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program.

York College's Global Humanities Lecture Series continues with a
faculty panel discussion, "Writing The Global Body: Philosophy, Literature,
Religion," at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 16, in Room 218 of the Humanities Center. The
event is open to the public free of charge.

The panel will include Colbey Reid, assistant professor of English; Christa
Shusko, assistant professor of religious studies; Dennis Weiss, professor of
philosophy; and Amy Propen, assistant professor of rhetoric and composition.

If you liked "Three Cups of Tea," you'll like "Stones into Schools," the followup about Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute's efforts to build schools in the remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

This second book focuses much more on Afghanistan and begins with CAI's goal of building in Bozai Gumbaz, the most remote village in the country, near the Chinese border.

Once again, Mortenson meets native Afghans who become key workers for CAI. These men don't get tired and they don't get discouraged. Mortenson and his helpers travel in the most primitive areas with little food or clean water and not much sleep.

If you were to choose the Top 100 Books Every Woman Should Read, what would be on your list?

Go to the More magazine Web site at http://www.more.com/2053/10840-the-top-100-books-every#1 to find out what books made their cut.

Let us know if you agree.

Edith Mayer Cord saw the worst of humankind growing up as a Jewish child during the Nazi Holocaust. As an adult, she became a teacher who somehow managed to turn her horrific experiences into a lesson plan for transcending hatred.

Author of the autobiography "Becoming Edith: The Education of a Hidden Child,"Cord will share her experiences and life view at 2 p.m. March 7 at the York JCC, 2000 Hollywood Drive.

"She is a gentle and gracious example of good triumphing over evil," said JCC member Debbie Sherman, a former student of Mrs. Cord's at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Copies of "Becoming Edith" are available at the JCC and will also be for sale at the program. Registration is not required. There is no fee and light refreshments will be served.

When the Book Nook opens its doors at 9 a.m. Feb. 20, lots of new books will line the used bookstore's shelves. The store recently received a large donation of new books. And they all will be sold at the store's usual low, low prices.

The sale, at the store's new location at 144 W. Main St. in Windsor, will continue until 2 p.m. Parking will be available along both sides of Main Street during sale hours, in the alley behind the store and further east in the alley in the church parking lot.

All proceeds from Book Nook sales benefit the Kaltreider-Benfer Library in Red Lion.

The Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education is sponsoring a discussion of Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" at 7 p.m. March 2 at the Horn Farmhouse, 4945 Horn Road, York.

Participants will taste and discuss food made from recipes in the book.

Kingsolver's book chronicles her family's year of buying and eating only locally grown foods.

For details and to register, contact the center at 757-6441 or by e-mail at info@hornfarmcenter.org by Feb. 26

Click here for a review of the book.

Best-selling thriller writer James Rollins will present the keynote address for the 23rd Annual Pennwriters Conference May 13-16 at the Best Western Eden Resort in Lancaster.

Rollins, author of the Sigma Force Series ("Sandstorm," "Map of Bones," "Black Order," "The Judas Strain," "The Last Oracle" and "The Doomsday Key"), will speak following a 5 p.m. dinner May 14. A question and answer session and book signing will follow.

Applications are being accepted through Feb. 11 for the one-day intensive workshops begin offered May 13.

Penguin is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Don DeLillo's National Book Award-winning novel, "White Noise," with a special edition featuring cover art by Michael Cho. Check it out here.

The Avenues Neighborhood Association, one of York's most active groups, has re-issued a 1984 booklet telling about how their part of the city started and grew.

For details about the book, click here.