Hanover YWCA is accepting used books for its annual used book sale Nov. 6, 7 and 8. Books can be brought to the YW at 23 W. Chestnut St. and placed in the "book box" located in front of the building. Please no encyclopedias, Readers Digest condensed books or magazines. Books should be in good condition and placed in bags or boxes.
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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.
that books make great gifts, but now we can listen to famous authors tell us why.
On Sept. 10, 2001, Alissa Torres was nearly eight months pregnant with her first child. Her husband, Eddie Torres, a Colombian immigrant who worked his way up from being a delivery boy, began a job as a currency broker for Cantor Fitzgerald at the World Trade Center.
Alissa became a widow the next day.
Seven years later, she has written a 210-page graphic memoir, or as she calls it, "an adult, literary comic book," about her marriage and first year as a widow and single mother. "American Widow" (Villard, $22) is illustrated by Sungyoon Choi.
Click here to read more about her book.
An 800-word Harry Potter prequel is one of 13 card-sized works to be sold at a charity auction in London.
Continue reading Harry Potter prequel to be auctioned.
Allyson A.W. Lyga will show how comics foster literacy and model graphic-novel lessons connected to national and state standards at 7 p.m. May 15 at Dillsburg Area Public Library, 17 S. Baltimore St., in Dillsburg.
Continue reading Comics foster literacy.
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?
Continue reading Out with the old, in with the new.
Have you just finished reading a book you couldn't put down, or one that kept putting you to sleep?
We want to hear about it, good or bad.
Send your book review to gfogal@ydr.com and we will post it here.
A student's view of comics and a professor's view of graphic novels will be the last two programs in Dillsburg Library's "Comics From the Classics to the Graphix" series.
Continue reading Comics and their kin.
