Operation Paperback will hold its annual fundraiser during Manchester Township's Summer Fun Festival.
The used book sale is from 3 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 2 at Cousler Park at Church and Greenbriar roads. There also will be silent auction items and sponsorship boxes.
Funds are used for postage and packaging to send books to U.S. military personnel throughout the world.
For details call 854-6620.
Patriot Press has announced that "Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia," by Gettysburg author Jessica James, has won a gold medal for Best Regional Fiction in the Indie Book Awards contest and was a finalist in the Historical Fiction category. The book also garnered a silver medal for Best Regional Fiction in the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Signed copies of "Shades of Gray" can be purchased from James through her Web site www.jessicajamesbooks.com.
The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society will celebrate its 27th Annual Book Sale with great bargains on some 75,000 used books.
The sale will be held Aug. 13-16 at 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. at 2215 Millstream Road, Lancaster,
Home-cooked food will also be available. All proceeds support the historical society.
While you're there, stop in the museum to see "Decorated and Plain: A Mennonite and Amish Sampler," a display of Pennsylvania German arts in handcrafted furniture, fraktur, needlework and other artifacts.
For details, contact David Sauder at 717-393-9745 or usedbooks@lmhs.org.
Those of you of a certain age (and you know who you are) who are members of AARP will want to check out Borders’ latest promotion.
Just go to www.borders.com and click on “Exclusive offer for AARP members.”
You can save from 10 to 35 percent on books purchased both online and at the store. And if you’re not a member, they will sign you up on the spot.
Occasionally getting older has its advantages.
Sometimes, as much as we hate it, we have to part with our books.
What else can we do when there just isn't enough shelf space for all our recent purchases?
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Two books offering new insights into the lives of three of the Civil War era¹s most compelling figures will share the 2008 Lincoln Prize, which is administered by Gettysburg College.
For their books about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Robert E. Lee, the winners are James Oakes, a professor at the City University of New York, for "The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics," and diplomat/historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor for "Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters."
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By JOSEPH MALDONADO
For the Daily Record/Sunday News
A book is like a warm quilt comprised of many threads, colors, textures and images. And like any quilt, a book takes tremendous know-how to transform it from an idea to something people curl up with in their favorite chair.
In May, the literary group Pennwriters will host its 21st annual conference, “A Writer’s smorgasbord.” The three-day event will feature scores of publishing experts, including many pub
lished authors.
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