A new book tells about the West York High School's district champs.
A 56-page book about the West York High School varsity football team's District 3 championship season is being published this month by the York Daily Record/Sunday News and its high school sports Web site, GameTimePA.com.
For details, see:The dogs got out.
Jonah Lehrer, the Rhodes Scholar with local ties, has penned his second book "How We Decide." ...
It has captured comparisons with Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink."
For more, see Author with York ties: Learned the brain inside and out in writing 'How We Decide'.
"Yesterday I Will," an anthology of original short stories, poems and one-act plays, will be formally launched during the York Book and Paper Fair on April 4.
The anthology, which grew out of a writing contest sponsored by The York Emporium used book and curiosity shop in downtown York, is being published by Fortress Publishing, Inc. of Lemoyne.
The 226-page book contains 25 winning entries to the contest.
Nancy Duncan, children's librarian at Red Land Community Library, reviews "To Dance With the White Dog."
A short book about life, love and endings. Sam Peek is an old man whose wife of many years, Cora, has just passed away. Sam is lonely. He has children close by, and an elderly housekeeper who comes to his house more to visit than clean, but there is an emptiness to Sam's life.
In April, survivors from Darfur and five previous genocides will join anti-genocide advocates and people of conscience around the world to observe Genocide Prevention Month.
As part of Genocide Prevention Month, organizers have partnered with the American Booksellers Association to provide a list of "Books of Conscience" for suggested reading. The titles selected are based on book-seller recommendations, critical acclaim and sales.
Some of the titles include:
"A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" by Samantha Power
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"The Translator: A Memoir" bBy Daoud Hari
"Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond" by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast
"Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" by Romeo Dallaire
Click here for the full list.
Review by Robert Cook
Okay, I'll admit the Kindle 2 is not for everyone. In fact, it's not for every book I want to read, but the 2 makes me believe that the electronic reader is here to stay.
What I Like About the Kindle 2:
From the Associated Press:
A book coming this fall will offer one of the ultimate inside takes on the economic crisis -- from former Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Joan McInnis, librarian for the Daily Record/Sunday News, reviews "Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself":
From a girlhood in working class Liverpool to wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair at No. 10 Downing Street, Cherie Booth Blair tells her remarkable story.
Children are invited to read a book to Buster, a golden retriever, or Jackson, a Labrador retriever, during Books with KPETS from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 7 and May 5 at East Berlin Community Library, 105 Locust St.
Keystone Pet-Enhanced Therapy Services encourages children to practice reading by allowing them to read, one-on-one, to a dog who will not criticize or discourage.
For details, visit www.eastberlinlibrary.org
From the Associated Press
Nobel laureate Al Gore's follow-up to his best-selling "An Inconvenient Truth," originally planned for last spring, is coming out this fall with a new title.
Publisher Rodale Books announced Tuesday that the former vice president's book, "Our Choice," will be released in November, printed on 100 percent recycled paper. The book, which proposes solutions to the global warming crisis documented in "Inconvenient Truth," was called "The Path to Survival" when first announced two years ago.
"An Inconvenient Truth" was published in 2006 and was a companion book to the Academy Award-winning documentary of the same name.
"How We Decide" by Jonah Lehrer was recently reviewed in the New York Times. The book was released in February by Houghton Mifflin. Lehrer also is the author of "Proust Was a Neuroscientist." He is the son of York native Jean Hively.
To read the review, click here.
From the Associated Press:
Oprah Winfrey offered to share the cover of O magazine with Ellen DeGeneres, and DeGeneres -- who's been campaigning for the spot -- has accepted.
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President Barack Obama, a best-selling author who received royalties of $2.5 million last year, will get hundreds of thousands more for a youth-oriented version of his published memoir and will write a nonfiction book after he leaves the White House.
Timothy Ward will read from his self-published book of poetry, "Last Words: A Portrait of Gay Lust, Love & Loss," March 27 at YorkArts Gallery, 10 N. Beaver St., York.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and the poetry reading begins at 8. A book signing and social hour will follow from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
The book sells for $11 and most of the proceeds go to AIDS research. For details, call 659-6034.
From the Associated Press:
Former President George W. Bush, who once famously called himself "The Decider," is writing a book about decisions.
"I want people to understand the environment in which I was making decisions. I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made and I want people to understand the options that were placed before me," Bush said during a brief telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press from his office in Dallas.
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"Ragtime" novelist E.L. Doctorow (pictured) and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul were among the 14 finalists announced Wednesday for the Man Booker International Prize, given every two years for lifetime achievement by a fiction writer who writes in English or whose work is widely available in English translation.
Gloria Fogal, books editor for the York Sunday News, and Nancy Duncan, children's librarian at Red Land Community Library, discuss Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead" and "Home."
From the Associated Press:
Author James Purdy, a shocking realist and surprising romantic who in underground classics such as "Cabot Wright Begins" and "Eustace Chisholm and the Works" inspired censorious outrage and lasting admiration, has died.
From the Associated Press:
A Princeton University professor with a wide range of expertise will be the next president of the American center of PEN, the writers organization.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy at Princeton who has written three novels and written and edited numerous nonfiction books, is expected to be elected next week to a 1-year term.
PEN's executive vice president, Laurence J. Kirshbaum, said Thursday night that Appiah would succeed author Francine Prose, who had served two 1-year terms. Kirshbaum's comments were made while accepting an honorary prize on behalf of PEN from the National Book Critics Circle.
Appiah, 54, was born in London and lived for many years in Ghana. A world traveler immersed in everything from ethics to racial identity, he has written often about Africans and African-Americans and has set his fiction in England and Italy.
From the Associated Press:
Stories and scholarship from around the world were honored by book critics Thursday night, including works about the ancient and modern Middle East and a novel set in Mexico, the late Roberto Bolano's "2666."
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's memoir is scheduled to come out sooner than originally planned -- in the fall.
and that definitely applies to book lovers.
The following Web sites offer used books for purchase or exchange, some for as little as the postage to ship them.
Check them out, and if you know of any others, please let us know.
For fans of "The Time Traveler's Wife," here's some good news from the Associated Press:
In a time of cost-cutting in the publishing industry, wallets opened wide for a long-awaited second novel.
Audrey Niffenegger's "Her Fearful Symmetry," her first book since the million-selling "The Time Traveler's Wife," has been acquired by Scribner and will be published in September, spokesman Brian Belfiglio said Tuesday.
'The Associate' has many York references.
John Grisham placed York squarely into the setting of his most recent bestseller "The Associate."
York County often seems to find fame.
For more on York Sunday News columnist Gordon Freireich's piece on Grisham's affinity to York and York County's place in the middle of the universe, click here.
When 24-year-old Jason Stevens receives the news of his great Uncle Red Stevens death, he is greedy with anticipation, as is the rest of the family. The family gathers for the reading of the will and, one by one, each family member is granted a share of his multi-billion dollar estate and then departs from the lawyer's office.
The last one remaining is Jason and he anticipates a big inheritance. Only Jason's Uncle Red has something different in mind for him. Instead, his great uncle has devised a crash course on life with 12 tasks -- or "gifts" -- designed to challenge Jason in improbable ways, sending him on a journey of self-discovery and forcing him to determine what is most important in life: money or happiness. By the end of the year-long journey, Jason changes from a greedy, angry young man into one filled with love, compassion for life and understanding the importance of character. He is now ready to receive the "Ultimate Gift."
This book has become a movement that has motivated millions of people throughout the world to give to others, connect with friends and family, and help those in need.
The book was released into a major motion picture in the spring of 2007.
From the Associated Press:
Historian and Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust has won a $50,000 prize from the New York Historical Society for "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War."
Faust, 61, received the fourth annual American History Book Prize, the society announced Tuesday. She has written several other books about the Civil War and the South, including "Mothers of Invention" and "A Sacred Circle."
Previous winners include Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Nasaw.
From the Associated Press:
A softcover copy of the first Harry Potter book has sold for just over $19,000, according to a Dallas auction house.
Following were best-sellers at Borders Books & Music in Springettsbury Township for the week that ended March 1.
1. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 --The Last Straw" by Jeff Kinney.
2. "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man" by Steve Harvey.
3. "Promises in Death" by J. D. Robb.
4. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch.
5. "One Day at a Time" by Danielle Steel.
This year's national publishing convention will get a cup of "Morning Joe."
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was among the speakers announced today for BookExpo America, being held in late May at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Others scheduled to attend include Pat Conroy, Julie Andrews, Meg Cabot and Nicholas Sparks.
Tobias Wolff, best known for his memoir "This Boy's Life," has been awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in short story writing.
Wolff won the Story Prize on Wednesday for the collection "Our Story Begins." The finalists -- Jhumpa Lahiri, for "Unaccustomed Earth," and Joe Meno for "Demons in the Spring" -- each received $5,000.
The Story Prize was founded in 2004; previous winners include Mary Gordon and Edwidge Danticat.
Just in from the Associated Press:
Playwright and screenwriter Horton Foote, who movingly portrayed the broken dreams of common people in "The Trip to Bountiful," "Tender Mercies" and his Oscar-winning screen adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Wednesday in Connecticut, Paul Marte, a spokesman for Hartford Stage, said. He was 92.
Abe March, a 1957 graduate of West York Area High School, has written his second book, "They Plotted Revenge Against America." The novel is available at amazon.com.
March's first book, "To Beirut and Back," is a memoir of his adventures in Lebanon in the 1970s.
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It's not the sensation of his first effort, but Stephen King's latest e-adventure is another best-seller.
King's agent, Ralph Vicinanza, said Tuesday that downloads of King's novella "UR," available only as an e-book and released to coincide with the launch of Amazon's upgraded Kindle reader, have reached "five figures" after barely three weeks on the market.
One of the characters in John Grisham's new book, "The Associate," is from York. How did Grisham come to choose York?
Read Gordon Freireich's column in the York Sunday News March 8. He talked to Grisham and found out the story behind the best-seller.
From the Associated Press:
A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year.
"The Pale King," excerpted in The New Yorker magazine edition coming out today, is set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s.
Following were best-sellers at Borders Books & Music in Springettsbury Township for the week that ended Feb. 22.
1. "Eclipse" by Stephenie Meyer.
2. "The Associate" by John Grisham.
3. "Run For Your Life" by James Patterson.
4. "Diary Of A Wimpy Kid 3: The Last Straw" by Jeff Kinney.
5. "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer.
From the Associated Press:
Random House Inc., which recently underwent a major consolidation, is expanding again.
The publisher announced today that it acquired Ten Speed Press, which specializes in cookbooks, business and spiritual works, including such favorites as "The Moosewood Cookbook" and "What Color is Your Parachute?" the million-selling job-hunting guide series.
Late last year, Random House announced it was reducing its major divisions from five to three, with an undetermined number of employees laid off.
Ten Speed Press, based in Berkeley, Calif., was founded in 1971 by Philip Wood, who will continue to serve as publisher emeritus.
Random House is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG.
